212 Dr Fleming on the Geological Deluge. 
of the Noachian deluge, as given by Moses, it is expressly stated, 
that clean and unclean beasts, fowls after their kind, cattle after 
their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth, two of every 
sort, male and female, were taken into the ark, preserved in the 
ark, and brought forth in safety from the ark, and dismissed with 
the mandate of their Creator to breed abundantly on the earth, 
and to be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. Here, then, we 
have revelation, declaring that, of all species of quadrupeds a male 
and female were spared and preserved during the deluge ; while 
we have the phenomena of nature, as interpreted by the geologists 
we have quoted, intimating, that all the individuals , of many 
species , were not spared, not preserved, but annihilated , by the 
catastrophe. An error must exist in one of these statements. 
The declaration of Moses is positive. The phenomena of na- 
ture may not have been suitably investigated. Shall we reject, 
then, the conclusions of the geologist, and respect the authority 
of Moses, or give the preference to Cuvier and Buckland ? 
3. According to Baron Cuvier, 66 this revolution had buried 
all the countries which were before inhabited by men, and by 
the other animals that are now best known ; and the same re- 
volution had laid dry the bed of the last ocean, which now forms 
all the countries at present inhabited.'” (Theory, p. 171.) Moses 
expressly tells us, that the flood of waters was upon the earth, 
prevailing exceedingly upon the earth, and covering the highest 
hills ; that the waters returned from oif the earth. Here, again, 
we have the opinion of Cuvier, in direct opposition to the whole 
tenor of the history of the Noachian deluge. Nor need we be 
surprised at this, since he seems to be in opposition to himself. 
At one time he supposes, that the inundation did not reach to 
the reverse. The bottom of the horn attests its origin, — the numerous rents 
and their marly contents. The Blair-Drummond example I quoted from the 
same authority. It is singular, that, in the same number of the Journal in 
which this case is likewise treated as spurious, and in the Proceedings of the 
Wernerian Society, I found “ Notices regarding the Rhinoceros Horns of Blair- 
Drummond, tending to shew that they may probably be regarded as having 
occurred in the blue clay of that district ; by Mr A. B. Blackadder, Allan 
Park,” p. 401. As Professor Buckland has admitted, in his “ Reply,” my first 
example of extinct animals being postdiluvian , I have got quite enough to esta- 
blish my views. The acknowledged postdiluvian character of the gigantic elk 
is as decisive as any horn of a rhinoceros in a marl bed, or carcase of a mam- 
moth in a postdiluvian iceberg. 
