Geology of Mount Sinai and adjacent Countries. 33 



type, being created within the limits of the natural area which it is 

 to inhabit, must have been placed there under circumstances favour- 

 able to its preservation and reproduction, and adapted to the fulfil- 

 ment of the purposes for which it was created. There are in animals 

 peculiar adaptations which are characteristic of their species, and 

 which cannot be supposed to have arisen from subordinate influences. 

 Those which live in shoals cannot bo supposed to have been created 

 in single pairs. Those which are made to be the food of others can- 

 not have been created in the same proportions as those which feed 

 upon them. Those which are everywhere found in innumerable spe- 

 cimens, must have been introduced in numbers capable of maintain- 

 ing their normal proportions to those which live isolated, and are 

 comparatively and constantly fewer. For we know that this har- 

 mony in the numerical proportions between animals is one of the great 

 laws of nature. The circumstance that species occur within definite 

 limits where no obstacles prevent their wider distribution, leads to 

 the further inference that these limits were assigned to them from 

 the beginning and so we would come to the final conclusion, that 

 "the order which prevails throughout the creation is intentional, — 

 that it is regulated by the limits marked out on the first day of crea- 

 tion, — and that it has been maintained unchanged through ages, with 

 no other modifications than those which the higher intellectual powers 

 of man enable him to impose upon some of the few animals more 

 closely connected with him, and in reference to those very limited 

 changes which ho is able to produce artificially upon the surface of 

 our globe. * 



On the Geography and Geology of the Peninsula of Mount 

 Sinai, and the adjacent Countries. By John Hogg, M.A., 

 r.Il.S., F.L.S. ; Honorary Secretary of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, &c. Communicated by the Author. 



(Continued from page 219.) 



This town is named in Scripture Elath or Eloth ; in the 

 Septuagint A/Xa^, and A/Xwi/ ; A/'XAj, Al/XA, or Aila by the 

 Greeks ; ^lana by the Romans ; and Ailah by the Arabians : 

 it is described in 1 Kings ix. 26, as " on the shore of the Bed 

 Sea in the land of Edom ;" and in 2 Chron. viii. 17, " at the 

 sea-side in the land of Idumea." From Procopius, in the 6th 



* The above view of the geography of animals appeared partly in an Ameri- 

 can periodical and partly in Professor Agassiz's beautiful and important work 

 (just received) on Lake Superior. 



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