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placed, and what they were like ? Is it like cattle, and sheep, 

 and goats, one of the animals probably created especially for 

 man's uso, and were they created semi-domesticated, if not totally 

 so, and placed where they were so that man might take them to 

 be useful to him ? 



May not all the Wild Boars, distributed over the various parts 

 of the world they are now found in, have descended from one 

 common stock, and, having been taken by man to other countries, 

 centuries ago, and allowed to stray, or perhaps having strayed 

 of their own accord, have become naturalized, and time and cir- 

 cumstances altered their appearance, and who can tell to what 

 extent ? 



The same remarks apply to cattle, sheep and goats, which I 

 think undoubtedly the Creator in his wisdom placed in Adam's 

 way domesticated or nearly so. If it were not so, how were 

 they completely subdued so quickly from a savage state ? No 

 wild animals can be so domesticated at the present time ; all ex- 

 periments to reclaim other species, with few exceptions, and 

 make them equally useful to man seem to have failed. Man, 

 having transported these to nearly all parts of the world, during 

 so many centuries, probably some of the apparently indigenous 

 species found wild in other countries, are only the descendants 

 of those taken thither by him, and which, having escaped, have 

 colonized themselves, but which are now, under different cir- 

 cumstances, as food, climate, and time, so altered, as not to be 

 recognized as the same species they may perhaps have sprung 

 from. 



It seems certain that comparatively few species are becoming 

 extinct at the present time ; those which have done so for some 

 recent centuries, have been apparently singularly local, and it 

 would appear an All-wise Providence has considered there was 

 no further use for them. Generally it' there is occasion for a 

 species, Nature takes sufficient care to have it in numerous loca- 

 lities, so that, in case of failure in one or more of them, in others 

 the supply is kept up. One might ask, what wild species can 



