PLAN OF REMAINING PART OF THE WORK. 
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PART II. 
Having thus far fulfilled my original proposal to illustrate my 
account of Kirkdale, and the caves of England, by a comparative view 
of similar caverns and fissures on the Continent, I come now to the 
second part of my inquiry, viz. the evidence of diluvial action afforded 
by the accumulation on the earth’s surface of loam and gravel, con¬ 
taining the remains of the same species of animals that we find in 
the caves and fissures, and by the form and structure of hills and 
valleys in all parts of the world. 
EVIDENCE OF DILUVIAL ACTION FROM THE DIS¬ 
PERSION OF THE BONES OF ELEPHANTS, &c. 
As the fossil elephant is more generally dispersed, and has been 
more frequently noticed than any one of the other animals we find 
with it in the diluvial detritus of which I am about to speak, and as 
it is peculiar to, and may be considered characteristic of deposits of this 
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