Note 765 — Chapter XIX
Reading edition
Dr. Buckland’s celebrated work, "Reliquiæ Diluvianæ," contains an admirable description of these caverns and their contents, with numerous plates. The student, in consulting this volume, must separate the facts from the diluvial theory, which, at the period of its publication (1823), they were supposed by Dr. Buckland and other eminent geologists to confirm.
[766] For a general description of the cave at Kirkdale, see Wond. p. 179; and for details, Reliq. Diluv. pp. 1-19. The ossiferous caves at Kirkdale, Torquay, and Banwell are noticed, Petrif. p. 482.