6 T'ransactions.—Miüscellaneous. 
Under certain circumstances, as Sir Charles Lyell says, the great 
Enaliosaurians might re-appear in the ocean depths and their dragon-like 
congeners invade the lands, and soar above the forests, for from whence 
they came, from whom descended, there are no records to tell. 
They appeared on earth when cosmical conditions were suitable, and 
disappeared utterly, it is presumed, when these were changed, leaving no 
transitional links behind that we know of. 
In the present century thousands are ready to accept any new idea, 
however preposterous, propounded by the class who come under the 
denomination of “advanced thinkers,” who so often evince utter contempt 
for the axiom of Mr. Huxley himself, that “ the first duty of a hypothesis 
is to be intelligible.” : 
It seems strange, nevertheless, that so startling a one as this Narrow 
Zone, walled round with solid ice, the withdrawal for thousands of years of 
solar heat from the greater portion of the globe, when the vivifying rays 
had ceased to warm the seas, and ocean circulation came to a stand—for 
this must be the inference—should be accepted with more readiness than 
the idea of the Noachian Deluge; when, according to Cuvier, there 
remained only “ Narrow regions, from which man re-peopled the earth after 
those stupendous events which closed the Elephantine period." Those events 
which took place when the long, slowly sinking Equatorial Continent—the 
Lhanka of the Brahmins, the Lemuria of modern savans, a map of 
which is placed before us by Professor Haëckel, where he says man was 
developed from perfected apes, a hundred thousand years ago, in Pliocene 
times, perhaps hundreds of thousands in Miocene, was at last suddenly 
submerged, during a period of intense volcanic activity, when its founda- 
tions were taken away, and other regions were upheaved in its place. 
This cataclysmal catastrophe in consonance with Mosaic history, in 
consonance with the traditions of men.of all races, Caucasian, Mongolian, 
Polynesian, or Negroid, presents none of the extraordinary difficulties which 
surround the Glacial Hypothesis as thus put before us. 
It was a catastrophe affecting a limited area, enormous as compared 
with that which subsided during the earthquakes of 1819.—The Runn of 
Cutch, from similar causes acting upon an infinitely smaller scale than 
they once did in the adjacent regions—but small when contrasted with that 
over which we are told life was extinguished by a universal ice-cap. The 
general order of things when the portion of the world known to the 
advanced families of men, possibly to all the human race, was overwhelmed 
by the sea, still went on undisturbed, it may be presumed, elsewhere. The 
giant sloths and armadillos may have moved about on the savannahs of 
South America, and the great marsupials—the gigantic wombats, kangaroos, 
