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6 A COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF THE Part III. “ back above Jive or six thousand years 1 * ." . Dolo- mieu, Saussure, Pallas, De Luc, Cuvier, D’Au- buisson, and the most distinguished naturalists of the age, have coincided in these conclusions; to which they have been led by the evidence of various monuments and natural chronometers which the earth exhibits, and, which remain perpetual vouchers for the veracity of the Mosaical chrono logy, with respect to the epocha of the revolution which the Mosaical History relates 5 '. “ This, “ then, (exclaims Pallas,) will be that Deluge, " of which almost all the ancient nations of Asia, “ the Chaldeans, the Persians, the Indians, the “ Tibetians, and the Chinese, have preserved the “ memory; and fix the time nearly to the period “ of the Mosaic Deluge 3 .” Let us, therefore, pursue the thread of the history, until it brings us to the relation of the Catastrophe or Revo lution in question. 1 Cuvier, Disc. Pril. p. 134.— T/i.^ 34. 3 M. de la Mtherie, the celebrated physiologist who thinks he has at length ascertained that the earth was made of air and infinity, according to the oracular opinion of Anaximenes ; (see above, vol.i. p. 10, note,) thus complacently soliloquises, in opposition to all these testimonies—“ no fact “ proves that any general catastrophes have ever taken place in the surface “ of the globe—aucunfait nc prouve, qu’il y ait eu a la surface du globe “ des catastrophes generales.” Journal de Physique, tom. Ixxx. p. 46. 3 Observ. sur la Form, des Montagnes, p. 47.
