"Travels" volume 1 page 374.) He adds that more than once he has seen the carcasses of upwards of a thousand wild horses thus destroyed.

I noticed that the smaller streams in the Pampas were paved with a breccia of bones, but this probably is the effect of a gradual increase, rather than of the destruction at any one period.

Subsequently to the drought of 1827 to 1832, a very rainy season followed which caused great floods.

Hence it is almost certain that some thousands of the skeletons were buried by the deposits of the very next year.

What would be the opinion of a geologist, viewing such an enormous collection of bones, of all kinds of animals and of all ages, thus embedded in one thick earthy mass?
Would he not attribute it to a flood having swept over the surface of the land, rather than to the common order of things?
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