184 ELEPHANTS LIVED WHERE THEIR BONES ARE FOUND. 
remains, but by admitting that the elephants, as well as all the other 
creatures whose bones are buried with them, were the antediluvian 
inhabitants of the extensive tracts of country over which we have 
been tracing them ? and that they were all destroyed together, by 
the waters of the same inundation which produced the deposits of 
loam and gravel in which they are embedded. 
