1841.1 Capt. Huttoris Geological Report. 219 



As it is therefore evident that the presence of the fossils can be attributed 

 to neither of these sources, we are at once led to the conclusion, that the 

 vast ranges of the Himalyan mountains were not in existence previous to the 

 Mosaic deluge, but that the rocks and strata which they now exhibit were 

 at that time horizontal, and forming part of the bed of the antediluvian 

 ocean. Of this I shall adduce positive geological proof in the sequel. 



The fossils therefore which are found imbedded in these higher tracts, 

 did not become extinct at the deluge, but at a period long previous to that 

 great event, when the secondary formations in which they occur were de- 

 posited, and which period though hitherto passed by unnoticed by writers 

 on geology, is nevertheless clearly pointed out by the sacred historian. 



In order more satisfactorily to ascertain the causes by which animals 

 once living in the depths of ocean have been left imbedded in rocks now 

 towering to a height of more than 16,000 feet above its present level, and 

 at a distance of many hundred miles from it, it will be necessary to skim 

 lightly over the events which have occurred on the surface of our globe 

 from the time of its creation, " until that last catastrophe to which these 

 mountains owe their existence. " Geologists," says Cuvier, " have hitherto 

 assigned but two revolutions to account for the phenomena which the strata 

 of the earth now exhibit, namely, the creation, and the deluge, which he rightly 

 thinks are insufficient, although he erroneously pronounces them to have 

 been numerous." Nor is it surprising that he should have deemed them in- 

 adequate to account for such phenomena, since the first of these periods 

 was no revolution at all, but occurred before the vegetable and animal races, 

 whose remains constitute the chief phenomena of our strata, were created, 

 and therefore it could have been in no wise instrumental either to their 

 destruction or deposition. It is, moreover evident, that this first revolution 

 of geologists could in reality be no revolution, but a creation I A revolution 

 must imply the overthrow or upsetting of an already established order of 

 things ; while here in this first period we know that there was no overthrow, 

 but a setting in order of things which had not as yet existed ; therefore it was 

 a creation, or calling into being an order of things which subsequently in af- 

 ter years was to be overthrown through the disobedience of created beings. 



The separation therefore of land and sea, by which our earth was first 

 called into existence, can be looked upon as only a creation, and such indeed 

 it is termed by the sacred historian, for he tells us that in the beginning 

 the materials from which our land was to be formed were called into being, 

 and that on the third day, the interim being occupied in perfecting other 

 arrangements all tending towards its welfare, the earth was separated 

 from the waters, and its existence commenced. True, the record mentions 

 two and only two distinct revolutions, but the Mosaic, equally with the 



