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2dly, Becaufe they are generally found in accumulated heaps, 

 and it is not to be imagined that while alive they fought a common 

 burial place no more than they at prefent do in India. 



3dly, Becaufe the rhinoceros was found intire and unputrified, 

 whereas if the country was warm when he perifhed this could 

 not have happened. 



4thly, Becaufe in no very diftant latitude *, namely that of 

 Greenland, the bones of whales, and not of elephants, are found 

 on the mountains, confequently that latitude muft have been in 

 that ancient period fufficiently cold to maintain whales, as it is 

 at this day ; and that cold we know to be very confiderable, and 

 incompatible with the proximity of a climate fuited to elephants. 

 17 N. Comment. Petropol. 576. i Ad. Petrop. 55. Renov. 73. 

 Therefore the animals whofe remains are now found in Siberia 

 could not have lived in it. 



The 4th hypothefis is that of Mr. Edward King, but much 

 amplified and enlarged by Mr. De Luc. This juftly celebrated 

 philofopher is of opinion that the adtual continents were, before 

 the deluge, the bottom or bed of the ancient ocean, and that the 

 deluge confifted in the fubmerfion of the ancient continents, which 

 confequently form the bottom or bed of our adual oceans, con- 



M m 2 fequently 



• The bones were found in latitude 55°. 



