336 Notice and Review of the Reliquiae Diluvianae. 
© 5, The nature of this gravel, being in part composed 
of the wreck of the neighbouring hills, and. partly of frag- 
ments and blocks that have been transported from distant 
regions.” ; i 
“6, The nature and condition of the organic remains 
deposited in this gravel ; many of them being identical 
with species that now exist, and very few having under- 
gone the smallest process of mineralization. ‘Their con- 
dition resembles that of common grave bones, being in so 
recent a state and having undergone so little decay, that 
if the records of history, and the circumstances that attend 
them, did net absolutely forbid such a supposition, we 
should be inclined to attribute them even to a much later 
period than the deluge: and certainly there is in my 
opinion no single fact connected with them that should 
lead us to date their origin from any more ancient era.”’ 
“©7, The total impossibility of referring any one of these 
appearances to the effect of ancient or modern rivers, or 
any other causes, that are now, or appear ever to have 
been in action, since the retreat of the diluvial waters.” 
*¢§. The analogous occurrence of similar phenomena in 
almost all the regions of the world that have hitherto been 
scientifically investigated, presenting a series of facts that 
are uniformly consistent with the hypothesis of a contem- 
oraneous and diluvial origin.” 
“9, The perfect harmony and consistency in tae cir- 
cumstances of those few changes that now go on, (e. g. the 
formation of ravines and gravel by mountain torrents ; the 
limited depth and continual growth of peat bogs ; the for- 
mation of tufa, sandbanks, and deltas ; and the filling up of 
lakes, estuaries, and marshes,) with the hypothesis which 
dates the commencement of all such operations at a period 
not more ancient than that which our received chronol- 
ogies assign to the deluge.” 
“« All these facts, whether considered collectively or se- 
parately, present such a conformity of proofs, tending to 
establish a recent inundation of the earth, as no difficulties 
or objections that have hitherto arisen are inany way suf- 
ficient to overrule.” pp. 226, 227. 
If to these we add the evidence derived from the phe- 
nomena of caves and fissures, and also the traditions of 
almost every nation and tribe under heaven to the occur- 
