104 THE IBVliLTHAN 



If, however, the earth, at that period of the cretaceous fonnations, 

 vfusjit for man's residence, it seems to me consistent with the good" 

 ness and wisdom of Him who makes nothing in vain, that man would 

 he then created. True it is, that the not finding his remains amongst 

 the fossils of that period deprives us of positive proof of his then 

 existence, but furnishes no proof that he did not then exist in the 

 world. If the chalk indicates the bed of the sea of that period, what 

 stratum, I ask, then fonned the dry land ? for that is the place to 

 search for the remains of the human beings of that day, and not in 

 the bed of the then sea, nor in that of the nearly contemporaneous 

 Wealden deposit, which was th^ bed ^f an estuary, or arm of the sea. 

 These, at most, could only include a few of the accidentally drowned ; 

 and in the midst of the crocodiles and megalosauri of that day, so 

 tempting a mouthful as a human being would not be allowed, I think, 

 to rest in peace in the bottom of the waters, there to be found after 

 many days. 



It is not yet known where the diy land of that period is to be 

 found ; but, probably, when the bed of the then sea was raised, the 

 dry land became the basin that holds the present seas. 



However, in the Wealden deposits it is that the remains of iguan- 

 odons have been found, and the period of this formation is, we have 

 seen, the time when man might, and probably did, first appear upon 

 the earth. Now, is not that probability heightened (if the behemoth 

 were identical with the iguanodon) by the first words the Almighty 

 addressed to Job in speaking of the behemoth ? " Behold now behe- 

 moth, which / made with thee." 



Hence it would seem that, whatever was the period of man's first 

 creation, the same was probably the period of behemoth's creation ; for 

 speaking to man of behemoth, he says, " Behemoth was created with 

 thee." Now, the iguanodon, we find from geologists, was first created 

 about the time of the date of the cretaceous formations, and that at 

 the same period the earth had become fit for man's existe nee. I 

 have sho>\Ti that at that period it is probable man was formed, and it 

 is certain that the iguanodon was then ; so, then, do not these words, 

 "Beholdnow behemoth, which I made with thee, " strengthen the idea 

 of the identity of the behemoth and iguanodon ? 



But it will be said that these animals, the mcgalosaunis and iguano- 

 don, have only been found in a fossil stale : how, then, is it probable they 



