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the vegetable and animal fpoils of the more fouthern, ravaged of 

 torn up continents, to the far extended and inclined plains of 

 weftern Siberia, where its free expanfion allowed it to depofit 

 them. Hence the origin of the bones and tuflcs of elephants and 

 rhinoceri found in the plains, or inconfiderable fandy or marly 

 eminences in the north weftern parts of Siberia, as Mr. Pallas rightly 

 judges. 



If now, returning to the fouth, we contemplate the efFeds 

 of this overwhelming invafion on the more fouthern regions of 

 India and Arabia, we fhall, where the coafts were undefended by 

 mountains, difcover it excavating the gulfs of Nanquin, Tonquin 

 and Siam, the vaft Bay of Bengal and the Aarabic and Red Seas. 

 That the fouthern capes, promontories and headlands, were ex- 

 tenuated to their prefent fliape by the deluge, and not by tides or 

 the currents ftill obferved in thofe feas, may be inferred from the 

 inefficacy of thofe feebler powers to produce any change in them 

 for many pa ft centuries. 



The chief force of the inundation feems to have been direded 

 northwards in the meridians of from no to 200 eaft of London. 

 In the more weftern trads it appears to have been weaker ; the 

 plains of India I fufped to have been lefs ravaged, or perhaps their 

 fubfequent fertility may have been occafioned by the many rivers 

 by which that happy country is watered. Not fo thofe of Arabia ; 

 their folid bafis, refifting the inundation, was obliged to yield its 



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