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thefe niountainous trads, and the repercuflion of their craggy fides» 

 eddies muft have been formed to which the Cafpian, Euxine and 

 other lakes may have owed their origin. Part alfo muft have 

 extended itfelf over the vaft trads weft of the Ourais, and there 

 expanded more freely over the plains of Ruflia and Poland down 

 to latitude 52" where it muft have met with and be oppofed 

 by the inundation originating in the weftern parts of the Pacific 

 ocean, this fide the Cape of Good Hope, and thence impelled 

 northwards and weftwards in the fame manner as the eaftern 

 inundation already defcribed, but with much lefs force, and fwecp- 

 ing the continents of South America (if then emerged) and of 

 Africa conveying to Spain, Italy and France, and perhaps ftill 

 farther North, elephants and other animals and vegetables hitherto, 

 fuppofed partly of Indian and partly of American origin. 



That the courfe here afiigned is not imaginary appears from 

 the ftiells, vegetables, and animal remains of thofe remote 

 climates, ftill found in Europe, and from the difcovery both of 

 the European and the American promifcuoufly mixed with each 

 other at Fez. i Bergman Erde Kugel, 252. 249. 



So alfo in Germany, Flanders and England, the fpoils of the 

 northern climates, and thofe of the fouthern alfo, are equally- 

 found ; thus the teeth of ardic bears and bones of whales, as well 

 as thofe of animals of more fouthern origin, have been difeovered; 

 in thofe parts. 



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