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food. Breaking the bones for the marrow, modelling frag- 
ments of bone into needles to repair garments with sinews, 
as OUT natives used to do ; making stone axes and spear 
heads ; and indulging in such recreations as carving bones, or 
scratching the cavern walls with drawings of animals coming 
to their recollection, would be employments resorted to by 
the most cultivated of mankind, if thus bereft of all advan- 
tages of civilization. And yet the science of our day ignores 
occurrence of such Hoods as Noah's, and asserts that the 
" cave man " was necessarily a pro-Adamite, or pro-historic 
resident on the earth, ages before the Word of God testifies 
to his creation. Much of what is asserted by palaeontology 
as to age of drifts, period of their depositation, antiquity of 
organisms found therein, and the certainty as to their 
species being extinct, and the connection between deposit of 
such drifts and disintegration of gold-bearing formations, is 
as utterly devoid of any sure basis of scientific truth. We 
are as yet but on the threshold of scientific knowledge. 
I'ity it is when our teachers shut to the door of access to it 
by asserting their own knowledge or assumptions, as all that 
is necessary ; and imperatively demand that the student, 
adopt their hypotheses as scientific facts necessary to entitle 
him to a diploma, or license, as a mining surveyor, Ac. In 
the Mosaic history of the flood, it is said to have abated 
"ingoing and returning," implying ebb and flow of tidal 
waves. The oscillatory motion may have prevailed through- 
out the whole phenomena of the deluge, and the points of 
highest mountains have afforded safety to families of man, 
the nuclei of Subsequent nations. Other individuals — the 
cave-men of the deluge — may have existed in safety for a 
time, but as the flood rose higher and higher, their place of 
refuge may have been, submerged, and by subsequent 
depositation of loam, when the troubled waters precipitated 
the earthy matters held in mechanical solution, the entrances 
to the eaves may have been entombed, until disclosed now 
to the investigations of the palaeontologist, and used by him 
as a foundation for very erroneous reasonings ; in evory 
important point hurling defiance to the simple narrations 
of fact vouchsafed to man in the Scriptures, penned by 
inspiration from the Designer, and primeval Architect of 
Nature in all her aspects. 
Geologists maintain that the local discovery of accumu- 
lated bones and teeth of mammoths and other extinct 
animals prove that these formerly existed in extraordinary 
abundance in Britain ; and yet the vastness of these accumu- 
lations militates against such an hypothesis, and suggests 
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