Principles of Geology / or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology

by Sir Charles Lyell

[933] I am indebted to Lieutenant Graves, R.N., for this information.

[934] I state this fact on the authority of my friend, Mr. John Curtis.

[935] Brand's Select Dissert. from the Amœn. Acad., vol. i. p. 118.

[936] Ibid.

[937] Sir H. Davy, Consolations in Travel, p. 74.

[938] W. von Humboldt, "On the Kawi Language," &c. cited in Cosmos. Introduction.

[939] Egypten's Stelle, &c. Egypt restored to her Place in Universal History, by C. C. J. Bunsen. 1845.

[940] For Grecian and Asiatic deluges, see above, p. [356].; Cimbrian, p. 331., Chinese, p. 7. Peruvian, p. 502.; Chilian or Araucanian deluge, p. 500.

[941] See p. 615.

[942] Malte-Brun's Geography, vol. iii. p. 419.