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CHAPTEE XLVII. 



IMBEDDIIN^G OP THE EEMAIISTS OF MAN AND HIS WOEKS IN 



SUBAQUEOUS STEATA. 



DEIFTIXG OF HUMAN BODIES TO THE SEA BY EIVBR INUNDATIONS HOW HU3rAN 



COKFSES MAY BE PRESERVED IN RECENT DEPOSITS— FOSSIL SKELETONS OF MEN 



NUMBER OF WRECKED VESSELS FOSSIL CANOES, SHIPS, AND WORKS OF ART 



CHEMICAL CHANGES WHICH METALLIC ARTICLES HAVE UNDERGONE AFTER 



LONG SUBMERGENCE IMBEDDING OF CITIES AND FORESTS IN SUBAQUEOUS 



STRATA BY SUBSIDENCE EARTHQUAKE OF CUTCH IN 1819 — BURIED TEMPLES 



OF CASHMERE BERKELEY'S ARGUMENTS FOR THE RECENT DATE OF THE CREA- 

 TION OF MAN MONUMENTS OF PRE-HISTORIC MAN DISCOVERED IN POST-TERTI- 

 ARY STRATA. 



I SHALL now proceed to enquire in what manner tlie mortal 



man 



the works of his hands 



may 



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manently preserved in subaqueous strata. Of the man 

 hinidred million human beings which perish in the course of 

 every century on the land^ every vestige is usually destroyed 

 in the course of a few thousand years ; but of the smaller 

 number that perish in the waters^ a certain proportion must 

 be entombed under circumstances that may enable parts of 

 them to endure throughout entire geological epochs. 



The bodies of 



animals^ are occasionally washed down during river inunda- 

 tions into seas and lakes. Belzoni witnessed a flood on the 



men 



of the inferior 



Nile 



in September, 1818, where, although the 



river rose 



only three feet and a half above its ordinary level, several 



men 



were swept away.^ It was before mentioned that a rise of 

 six feet of water in the Ganges, in 1763, was attended with 

 a much greater loss of life. (See above. Vol. I. p. 474.) 

 In the year 1771, ivhen the inundations in the north of 



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^ Narrative of Discovery in Egypt, &c., London, 1820. 



