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Mr. Buckland on the 
with a degree of ability that like the whole of his paper be- 
speaks the touch of a master’s hand ; his observations are im- 
portant to our present subject, as adducing facts in strict unison 
with those which we have been tracing in England. Dr* 
Richardson has also given important notices on the enormous 
affects of analogous denudations, in his excellent paper on the 
Basaltic Area of the North of Ireland, published in the Philosophical 
Transactions for the year 1808. 
Mr. Greenough, in his examination of the first principles of 
geology, concludes his admirable summary of phoenomena derivative 
from diluvian action in all quarters of the earth, with the following 
passages, which are much too important to be omitted in this place. 
“ The universal diffusion of alluvial sand, gravel, &c. proves that 
at some time or other an inundation has taken place in all 
countries, and the presence of similar alluvial deposits both organic 
and inorganic, in neighbouring or distant islands, though consisting 
often of substances foreign to the rocks of which the islands are 
respectively composed, makes it highly probable at least, that these 
deposits are products of the same inundation. The universal 
occurrence of mountains and vallies, and the symmetry which 
pervades their several branches and inosculations, are further proofs 
not only that a deluge has swept over every part of the globe, but 
probably the same deluge.” He also shews it to be highly probable 
“ that the order of things immediately preceding the deluge, closely 
resembled the present order, and was suddenly interrupted by a 
general flood, which swept away the quadrupeds from the continents, 
tore up the solid strata, and reduced the surface to a state of ruin : 
but this disorder was of short duration, the mutilated earth did not 
cease to be a planet : animals and plants similar to those which had 
perished, once more adorned its surface ; and nature again submitted 
