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joined, as the inlxabitants of the former pa fled into the latter } 

 they ftill approach each other very nearly in the northern parts, 

 and the intermediate fpace is filled with iflands. The jundioo 

 immediately after the flood I ftated in my former Effay to have 

 reached fo low as latitude 40°, becaufe I find America peopled 

 by nations of different charaders, degrees of civilization' an4 

 languages ; fuch varieties could fcarcely occur among a peopl? 

 inhabiting the fame climate and formed to the fame habits. At 

 Cain was originally banifhed from his brethren, fo I im^qte 

 malefadors anciently were into the colder deferted climates by 

 their civilized brethren in Afia, and thus the Efquimaux origi- 

 nated that are equally found in both continents and other 

 favages ; and hence the prsedatory difpofition of the Scythian 

 tribes. That the poftdiluvian jundion did not reach lower 

 than latitude 40*^ I infer from the abfence of elephants from 

 the warmer regions of America, 



The utter reparation of both continents was moft probably 

 the effedl of excavations by volcanos ; at leaft this caufe is ade- 

 quate to fuch an efkOi, and it ftill exifts in the moft northern, 

 parts. The fuperior fertility of the weftern coaft of America 

 may arife from the lavas ejected on that coaft. 



2d. That the Baltic in all its branches was anciently much 

 more extended than at prefent many reafons induce us to be- 

 lieve ; 



