Note 23 — Chapter IV · ON THE FORMATIONS OF THE PAMPAS.

It is almost superfluous to give the numerous cases (for instance, in Sumatra; Lyell’s “Principles,” vol. iii, p. 325, sixth edit.), of the carcasses of animals having been washed out to sea by swollen rivers; but I may refer to a recent account by Mr. Bettington (“Asiatic Soc.,” 1845, June 21st), of oxen, deer, and bears being carried into the Gulf of Cambray; see also the account in my “Journal” (2nd edit., p. 133), of the numbers of animals drowned in the Plata during the great, often recurrent, droughts.