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quantities would be inhumed at the deluge. The 

 other animal matters found -in a foflil Hate, particularly 

 the horns, fkeletons, and bones of animals, which are 

 much larger than any now found upon the earth, can 

 only be accounted for upon this hypothecs. Such 

 are thofe mentioned by BufTon, which were dug up 

 in America, near the river Ohio, a fmgle tooth of 

 which, belonging to a large row, weighed upwards 

 of eleven pounds, and a fmgle thigh bone was upwards 

 of four feet in length. In the year 1783, a fkeleton 

 of an immenfe animal of the deer kind was found on 

 an eftate belonging to Dr. Percy, Bifhop of Dromore. 

 It was dug out of a marie pit, under a peat mofs, 

 and was found furrounded by fhells and other marine 

 productions. The horns were feven feet and one 

 inch in height, the length of the fcull nearly two feet, 

 the breadth of the forehead nearly a foot, and the bones 

 of an enormous fize. In Siberia, in America,, and 

 even in England, the bones and teeth of the elephant, 

 hippopotamus, and other animals, which never have 

 exifted in thofe climates, have been found, and even 

 thefe were larger than thofe of any fuch animals now 

 exifting. 



To the deluge, therefore, much of the prefent 

 inequalities of the earth may be rationally attributed. 

 But there are other caufes which may have operated 

 both before and fince. It is a fact, which will fcarcely 

 admit of difpute, that volcanic eruptions were much 

 more frequent in the early ages of the world than at 

 prefenc : the veftiges of volcanoes, and, even the ex- 

 haufted craters, are often found, where there is now 

 not the leaft appearance of fubterraneous fire. This 

 fact is alfo eafily accounted for on philofophical prin- 

 ciples. The imperfect, and, if I may fo fpeak, ac- 

 cidental mixture of different bodies, would in many 

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