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However it feems that all which we have hitherto 

 mentioned, may have been the effecl: of different 

 caufes. To thofe belong the univerfal deluge, 

 the increafe of land, which is merely the work 

 of time, and the changes of the courfe of rivers, 

 which when the fnow melts, and in great floods, 

 leave their firft beds, and form new ones. 



AT fome diftance from Mr. Barf rams coun- 

 try houfe, a little brook flowed through the wood, 

 and likewife ran over a rock. The attentive 

 Mr. Bartram here {hewed me feveral little ca- 

 vities in the rock, and we plainly faw that they 

 muft have been generated in the manner I before 

 defcribed, that is, by fuppoiing a pebble to have 



gour ; but whether the teeth in thefe animals are fo much differ- 

 ent from thofe of the other variety, has never been attended to. 

 This circumilance of the difference in the foffil grinders of Ele- 

 phants, from thofe in the living ones, and the place where thefe 

 /keletons were found in, viz. Siberia, Germany , and America, 

 where at prefent no Elephants are to be met with, opens a wide 

 field to conjectures, in regard to the way by which thefe animals 

 were carried to thofe fpots. The flood in the deluge perhaps has 

 carried them thither : nor is it contrary to reafon, hiitory or reve- 

 lation, to believe thefe fkeletons to be the remainders of animals, 

 which lived on the furface of this globe anterior to the Mofaic 

 creation ; which may be confidered only as a new modification of 

 the creatures living on this globe, adapted to its prefent ilate, un- 

 der which it will remain tillcircumftances will make a new change 

 necefTary, and then our globe will, by a new creation or revolu- 

 tion, appear more adapted to its ftate, and be flocked with a fet 

 of animals more fuitable to that ftate. Every man, ufed to phi- 

 lofophy and reafoning, will find, that this plan gives a grand idea 

 of the Creator, his ceconomy and management of the univerfe : and 

 moreover, it is conformable to the meaning of the words of a facred 

 writer, who fays: Pfal. civ. 29, 30. Thou hidejl thy face and they 

 (fmall and great hearts) are troubled', thou take.Jl away their breath, 

 they die, and return to their duft. Thou fendeft forth thy Spirit, they are 

 treated; and thcu reneiveft the face of tJ# earth. See Dr. Hunter's 

 remarks on t]?*j above-mentioned teeth, jn the PhilofophicalTranf. 

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