DISCOVERED AT KIRKDALE. 
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broken, mangled, and mixed in wild confusion, the accu- 
mulation of such mixed relics as were found in Kirkdale 
Cavern may thus be accounted for. 
In some things the Professor and I are pretty well 
agreed, particularly in thinking that the bones have been 
preserved in the cavern since the era of the Deluge ; and 
that the different kinds of animals to which they have be- 
longed, might all have lived in this quarter of the globe 
previous to the Deluge,- — though many of them, in conse- 
quence of the changes produced by the flood, are now pe- 
culiar to the tropical regions. In our descriptions of facts 
and appearances, there is also no material difference. He 
has made mistakes, in a few instances, through inadvert- 
ence ; as, in naming the beck, or rivulet of Kirkdale, in 
one place Rical Beck, instead of Hodge Beck; and in 
stating that the elevation of the Cave above the bed of 
that stream exceeds 100 feet, where he has obviously sub- 
stituted the distance for the elevation, the perpendicular 
height of the mouth of the Cave above the level of the 
hech being only about S6 feet, and the whole height of the 
bank, at that spot, scarcely exceeding 60 feet. The most 
considerable difference between our statements is, that the 
Professor roundly asserts, that, " In the interior of the 
cave there was not a single rolled pebble, nor one bone, or 
fragment of bone, that bears the shghtest mark of having 
been rolled by the action of water whereas I have af- 
firmed, that many of the bones are decidedly water-worn. 
Here, however, Mr Buckland's account does not vary from 
mine in the statement of the fact, so much as in assigning 
the cause of it ; for, in another passage of his essay, he 
observes, that many of the bones are worn and polished, 
at least on one side; but, instead of allowing them to be 
water-woxw, he supposes them to have received their polish 
by being trampled on by the hyaenas in the bottom of the 
