[27] Scripture and Geology, 371. (Ed. 1855.)
[28] "It is by no means unlikely that some beds of coal were derived from the mass of vegetable matter present at one time on the surface, and submerged suddenly. It is only necessary to refer to the accounts of vegetation in some of the extremely moist, warm islands in the southern hemisphere, where the ground is occasionally covered with eight or ten feet of decaying vegetable matter at one time, to be satisfied that this is at least possible."
[29] Ansted's Anc. World, 75.
[30] M'Culloch's System of Geology, i. 506.
[31] Origin of Coal.
[32] Testimony of the Rocks, p. 78.
[33] Mr. Newman suggests that they were "marsupial bats" (Zoologist, p. 129). I have adopted his attitudes, but have not ventured to give them mammalian ears.
[34] In Tennant's "List of Brit. Fossils" (1847), but two species—a Brachiopod and a Gastropod—are mentioned as common to the Chalk and the London Clay. They are Terebratula striatula, and Pyrula Smithii.
[35] Ansted's Anc. World, 267.
[36] Reliquiæ Diluvianæ.