The garden of Eden and the flood . Ashley shores are tobe referred. The difficulty is especiallygreat in regard to fishes, less so with thereptiles and cetaceans, and least so withother mammalian fossils. Difficult, ofcourse, if there be any theory to surely they are all fossilized; and ofcourse at the instant, by the same flow ofthe fossilizing silica. Gigantic sharks, ta-pirs, and the Virginia deer, the tiger and theopossum, all overtaken in the same storm,lay down and were covered with the samefloods, alluvial and diluvial. Besides this,all the fossil shells of the Eocene, Mioc
The garden of Eden and the flood . Ashley shores are tobe referred. The difficulty is especiallygreat in regard to fishes, less so with thereptiles and cetaceans, and least so withother mammalian fossils. Difficult, ofcourse, if there be any theory to surely they are all fossilized; and ofcourse at the instant, by the same flow ofthe fossilizing silica. Gigantic sharks, ta-pirs, and the Virginia deer, the tiger and theopossum, all overtaken in the same storm,lay down and were covered with the samefloods, alluvial and diluvial. Besides this,all the fossil shells of the Eocene, Miocene,Pliocene, and Postpliocene periods are here;two hundred and three species are in these 46 The Flood. beds, perfectly preserved, of which ninetyare known to be recent, now living in thewaters of the South Carolina JSee Pliocene Fossils, by Tuomey and , S. C.: Russell and Jones, 251 King Also, Postpliocene Fossils, by F. S. and Jones, Charleston, S. C. 1859. :#;-*|! & ?s®. (48) Ashley Beds. We cite four of the most celebrated pro-fessors of geology and paleontology, as tothe character of the fossils of the Ashleybeds of South Carolina: Professor Leidy, ofPhiladelphia; Professor Holmes, of Charles-ton, S. C.; Professor Tuomey, State Geolo-gist of Alabama; and Professor L. Agassiz. STATEMENT BY PROFESSOR HOLMES.*There is an extensive formation in the low or flatcountry of South Carolina, which, according to geo-logical distinctions, is the most recent of the Tertiarydivision, called the Postpliocene. This is included ina belt extending from the seacoast ten miles inland. Three distinct beds belong to this formation. First,the marine, composed of a gray sandy clay, in which areimbedded innumerable small shells, of a species nowcommon and living on the coast; and many large shells,in the position they occupied when living, having bothvalves entire and perfect as if destroyed suddenly. The second, a stiff blue clay, cont
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