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Reliquiae Diluvianae; Or, Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures and Diluvial Gravel - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ...fissures or caverns, they appear to have been open, and without mud or pebbles, at the time when the animals lived and died, whose remains are now found in them. These two kinds of apertures rarely occur separate, and many of the caves appear to be only enlargements, and hollow side branches shooting off from a fissure or congeries of connected fissures. Some of these fissures terminate upwards, like the caves, in the body of the rock; others rise to the surface, and are occasionally open, as at Scharzfeld, but more frequently they are filled up with diluvium of the same kind as that which has universally covered the floor, and filled the undervaultings of the caves. 2. The present mouths of the caves did not exist in their actual state at the time when they were inhabited; but are rather truncated portions of the lower regions of the original caverns, laid open by the diluvial waters which excavated the valleys in whose cliffs they stand; and which also drifted into them the mud and pebbles. 3. The proportion of teeth in all these caverns does not appear (as at Kirkdale) to be in excess, beyond that which is due to the number of bones that accompany them; and this circumstance is explained by the fact of their being principally derived from bears, OCCURRENCE OF BONES PARTIAL. 143 whose habit it is not to devour the bones, either of their own species, or of other large animals. 4. The partial occurrence of these remains in so comparatively small a number of the many caves that lie adjacent to each other, added to the immense quantities in which they are usually crowded together where they exist at all, shows that they were accumulated by some cause independent of the diluvial action that introduced the mud and pebbles; for had they been drifted in together,...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1231203226
- ISBN 13 9781231203224
- BindingPaperback
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