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Ch. XLVI.] 



IN SUBAQUEOUS DEPOSITS. 



539 



fisli except the carp ; and when drowned buffaloes, tigers, 

 rhinoceroses, deer, apes, and other wild beasts, were brought 

 down to the sea-coast by the current, with several crocodiles 

 which had been stifled in the mud. (See above, p. 159.) 



On the western side of the same island, in the territory of 

 Galongoon, in the Eegencies, a more recent volcanic eruption 

 (that of 1822, before described— see above, p. 57), was attended 

 by a flood, during which the river Tandoibore down hundreds 

 of carcasses of rhinoceroses and buffaloes, and swept away 

 more than 100 men and women from a multitude assembled 

 on its banks to celebrate a festival. Whether the bodies 



some 



of the large intervening alluvial plains, we are not in- 



formed 



Sumatra. 



Hey 



seen tigers and whole herds of black cattle carried along by 



immense size/t 



Virginia^ 1771. — I 



mi 



umber 



local deluges that have swept through the fertile lands 

 bordering on large rivers, especially in tropical countries. 



limits 



work. I 



Thus 



but I should surpass the 



may observe, however, that the destruction of the 



in rivers, is often attended with great loss of life. 



when the principal river in Virginia rose in 1771, to the 



height of 25 feet above its ordinary level, it swept entirely 



away Elk Island, on which were 700 head of quadru- 



peds. 



horses, oxen, sheep, and hogs. 



and nearly 100 



t 



The reader 



from 



before said re- 



specting the deposition of sediment by aqueous causes, that 



number 



remains 



drifted 



away by rivers must be intercepted by lakes before they 

 reach the sea, or buried in freshwater formations near the 

 mouths of rivers. If they are carried still farther, the pro- 

 babilities are increased of their rising to the surface in a 

 state of putrefaction, and, in that case, of being there devoured 



* This account I had from Mr. Baum- 

 hauer, Director-General of Finances in 

 Java. 



t Tracts on India, p. 397 

 I Scots Mag., vol. xxxiii. 



