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of fifh, or, in other words, thatfifh did not exift until the original 

 ocean had fubfided to the height of eight thoufand five hundred 

 feet above its prefent level. Therefore the fhells found at more 

 elevated ftations were left there by a fubfequent inundation. 

 Now an inundation that reached fuch heights could not be partial, 

 but muft have extended over the whole glofee. 



zdly, The bones of elephants and of rhinoceri, and even the 

 intire carcafe of a rhinocerus, have been found in the lower 

 parts of Siberia. As thefe animals could not live in fo cold a coun- 

 try they muft have been brought thither by an inundation from 

 warmer and very diftant climates, betwixt which and Siberia 

 mountains above nine thoufand feet high intervene. It may be 

 replied that Siberia, as we have already fhewn, was not originally 

 as cold as it is at prefent ; which is true, for probably its original 

 heat was the fame as that of many iflands in the fame latitude 

 at this day, but flill it was too cold for elephants and rhinoceri, 

 and between the climates which they might have then inhabited 

 and [the places they are now found in too many mountains inter- 

 cede to fuppofe them brought thither by any other means but 

 a general inundation. Befidcs, Siberia muft have attained its 

 prefent temperature at the time thefe animals were tranfported, elfe 

 they muft have all long ago putrified. 



3dly, Shells known to belong to fhores under climates very 

 diftant from each other are in fundry places found mixed promif- 



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