Murray and Guppy against Darwin's theory are not facts;
secondly, that the others are reconcilable with Darwin's theory;
and, thirdly, that the theories of Messrs. Murray and Guppy "are
contradicted by a series of important facts" (p. 13).
Perhaps I had better draw attention to the circumstance that
Dr. Langenbeck writes under shelter of the guns of the fortress
of Strasburg; and may therefore be presumed to be unaffected by
those dreams of a "Reign of Terror" which seem to disturb the
peace of some of us in these islands (April, 1891).
[See, on the subject of this note, the essay entitled "An
Episcopal Trilogy" in the following volume.]
FOOTNOTES
(1) In May 1849 the Tigris at Bagdad rose 22-1/2 feet--5 feet
above its usual rise--and nearly swept away the town. In 1831 a
similarly exceptional flood did immense damage, destroying 7000
houses. See Loftus,
Chaldea and Susiana, p. 7.
(2) See the instructive chapter on Hasisadra's flood in Suess,
Das Antlitz der Erde, Abth. I. Only fifteen years ago a
cyclone in the Bay of Bengal gave rise to a flood which covered
3000 square miles of the delta of the Ganges, 3 to 45 feet deep,
destroying 100,000 people, innumerable cattle, houses, and
trees. It broke inland on the rising ground of Tipperah, and may
have swept a vessel from the sea that far, though I do not know
that it did.
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