114 (hi the Cosmogony of Moses. 



have been found are of the class termed pelagian or oceanic, and 

 ajipear evidently from their structure never to have furnished a 



dwelling to creeping molluscBe. If F. E s can mention one 



which properly belongs to the class designated in the 21st and 

 22d verses of the first chapter of Genesis, or whicli contained a 

 progressive, walking or creeping animal, I shall admit the case 

 to be an exception to the coincidences 1 have pointed out. 



It is evident that tliese coincidences depend, in a great mea- 

 sure, on the sense of that passage in the Cosmogony which re- 

 fers to the creation of aquatic animals, in the first period the 

 vegetable tribes were produced; to which I suppose some animal 

 species exhibiting the phaenomena of animal hfc in a low degree. 

 to have been associated, but only such as are veiv remote in 

 their nature from the orders of aciuatic animals, which are de- 

 signated as beginning to exist in the next period. These last 

 are whales or fishes, and those creatures which are termed in our 

 English translation " moving creatures that have life." 



I have compared most of the passages in the Hebrew Scrip- 

 tures in which the words thus translated are to he Ibund, and I 

 find their sense to be somewhat more definite than I at first ap- 

 prehended, being misled by the authority of the version above 

 mentioned. The exact meaning was pointed out in my letter 

 published in the Philosophical Magazine for April, and is clearly 

 expressed by the words used bv the LXX ^w« eg7rsr«. This I 

 shall now prove by a sufficient number of references. 



The passages in which tlie creatures are designated, whose 

 nature is the subject of dispute, are the twentieth and twenty- 

 first verses of tlie first chapter of Genesis. 



In the twentieth verse we read 



: rPH L'DD y'iil' a-^^n i!^^2?^ 



which in the literal translation of Pagninus is rendered " reple- 

 ficent aquDe reptile animae viventis." 



In the twenty-first verse the creatures which had been pro- 

 duced are termed . 



"animam viventem repentem quam repere fecerunt aquae." 



The distinguishing terms are t*"^© in the twentieth verse, and 

 nUJJD"^ in the twenty-first. 



The word VTU? in the twentieth verse is rendered by the LXX 

 bv the Greek word s^7rsT«. The exact meaning of it is disco- 

 vered in the eleventh chapter of Levilicus, verse 2()^h, which is 

 rendered in the English translation, " All fowls that crekp, 

 going upon all four, shall be an abomination to you." Here also 

 the LXX use the word k^-sTo.. 



The sense is equally displayed in the tuenty-ninth verse of 

 the same chapter, which is translated, " These things shall be 



unclean 



