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mighty a result, (the formation of pebbles and bowlders,) 
and we must assign this operation to the more recent peri- 
ods of the prevalence of the great chaotic deluge, whose 
existence is distinctly recorded in the first chapter of Gen- 
esis, and equally admitted by all geologists.” 
It was a point of considerable importance with Mr. Buck- 
land, to show, that geology furnishes evidences of the inun- 
dation of high mountains. For it was the opinion of Cuvi- 
er, and other eminent naturalists, in opposition to the scrip- 
tural statement, that the highest parts of the earth were not 
covered by the deluge, since fossil remains had been fouad 
only in the lower regions of the globe. Against such a sup- 
position the author arrays the following facts, which seem to 
put the question at rest. “Ist. The blocks of granite 
which have been transported from the heights of Mont 
Blanc to the Jura Mountains, could not have been moved 
from their parent mountain, which is the highest in Europe, 
had not that mountain been below the level of the water by 
which they were sotransported.” 2. ‘The Alps and Car- 
pathians, and all the other mountain regions I have ever 
visited in Kurope, bear in the form of their component hills, 
the same evidence of having been modified by the force of 
water, us do the hills of the lower regions of the earth ;” 
(and we think we may add the same from the testimony of 
travellers, concerning the mountains of America, and other 
quarters of the globe.) ‘and in their valleys also, where 
there was space to afford it a lodgement, I have always 
found diluvial gravel of the same nature and origin with 
that of the plains below, and which can be clearly distin- 
guished from the postdiluvian detritus of mountain tor- 
rents or rivers.”’ 3d. Here Mr. B. adduces several facts, 
some of them new, concerning the occurrence of organic 
remains at high levels. The bones of the mastodon are 
found near Santa Fe de Bogota, seven thousand eight hun- 
dred feet above the sea; and in the kingdom of Quito, at 
an elevation of seven thousand two hundred feet, near the 
voleano of Imbaburra. And recently there have been dis- 
_ covered in Central Asia, in the Hymalaya mountains, the 
bones of horses and deer, and of bears we add, on the au- 
thority of the Quarterly Review, sixteen thousand feet 
above the sea. They were sent the last year (1822) to 
Sir E. Home, by Capt. W. S. Webb, who procured them 
