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that deposit to have originated in the drift from a deluge. 
Again it is affirmed that fossils and flint implements have 
"been found associated with the bones of an ancient type of 
mammalia, including the cave hyena, the cave tiger, the 
hippopotamus, and the elephant. But the occurrence of the 
Noachian deluge, if regarded as brought about by a change 
of the earth's centre of gravity, when the oceans would yield 
to the temporary oscillation produced, and suddenly overflow 
lands with desolating force, would account for all noted 
disintegration, drift, commingling, and ultimate deposit of 
the fossiliferous debris of strata of ancient type, with relics of 
the then existing creation. In Derbyshire, plates of smelted 
copper and relics of art made of slate, stone, bone, bronze, 
and pottery have been discovered, in caves. In caves in 
Devonshire, the first floor consists of boulders, then black clay, 
then stalagmite, or stony brecia, then cave earth, embedded 
in which, to several feet in depth, are bones of now extinct 
animals. Above these arc found terrestrial and marine 
shells. In other caves, marrow bones, broken by man, and 
bearing marks of knives, lie with bones of beasts of prey. 
Hitherto, although large sums have been, at various times, 
expended in the cause of scientific discovery within Arctic 
regions, exploration of the Antarctic shores has been 
strangely neglected by science. There is every probability 
that a race of man may exist there, whose traditions of their 
origin, or salvation through an overwhelming deluge, might 
confirm those of many other parts of the world. And, pro- 
bably, relics of the last great overflow of the habitable parts 
of the world, by waves in the direction denoted by deposits 
of diluvium, or from north to south, may be readily avail- 
able to search along the shores from which the icebergs break 
off the enveloping ice at certain seasons. It was thus the 
wondrous deposits of elephant tusks and mammoth bones — 
the supply to the manufactories of the world during the last 
century — were discovered amidst the regions of hyperborean 
oblivion, as fresh, and in such good state of preservation as 
if natural decay was tmkuown there. No relics of man, 
however, arc reported ; and this is negatively corroborative 
of the Scriptural account of the period of man's advent on 
the earth. The Antarctic shores may teem with the debris 
swept off the northern continents during Noah's flood. The 
disclosures of geology as to the strange association of beasts 
of prey with refugees of mankind, temporarily seeking shelter 
from the elements, in caves of the mountains, is but a 
counterpart of the narration of unimpeachable travel- 
lers on the South American prairies, as to the occa- 
