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cuoufly with each other; one fcrt of them, tlierefore, muft have 

 been tranfported hy an inundation y the promifcuous mixture can 

 be accounted for on no other fuppofition. 



These appear to me the moft unequivocal geologic proofs of a 

 general deluge. To other fads generally adduced to prove it, 

 another origin may be afcribed ; thus the bones of elephants found 

 in Italy, France, Germany, and England, might be the remains 

 of fome brought to Italy by Pyrrhus or the Carthaginians, or of 

 thofe employed by the Romans tbemfelves ; fome are faid to have 

 been brought to England by Claudius. 4 Phil Tranf Abr. 2d part, 

 242. When thc-fe bones, hov/ever, are accompanied with marine 

 remains, their origin is no longer ambiguous. Thus alfo the 

 bones and teeth of whales, found near Maeliricht, are notdecifively 

 of diluvian origin, as whales have often been brought down as low 

 as Lat. 48°. 34 Roz. 201. Nay fometimes they ftrike on the coaft 

 of Italy. I Targioni Tozzctti 3S6. 



Yet, to explain the leaft ambiguous of thefe phoenomena, 

 without having recourfe to an univerfal deluge, various hypothefes 

 have been framed. 



Some have imagined that the axis of the earth was originally 

 parallel to that of ihe ecliptic, which would produce a perpetual 

 fpring in every latitude, and confequently that elephants m.ight 

 exift in all of them. But the ableft aftronomers having demon- 



ftrated 



