502 Additional Notes. 



inhabitants of the antediluvian world, is it not evident that 

 many of the facts observed, are precisely such as must neces- 

 sarily have arisen from this state of the case ? 



The fossil remains of elephants have been discovered in 

 various parts of the North- American continent, where none 

 of this genus of animals are now to be found in the living 

 state. I'his has been made a wonder. But how could it have 

 been otherwise? If the /7oo^ destroyed all the inhabitants 

 of the earth, except those which were preserved in the Ark; 

 and if the ark rested, after the subsiding of the waters, on 

 the Eastern continent, as is generally supposed by biblical 

 commentators, then no animals, excepting those capable of 

 making occasional and considerable expeditions by ivater^ 

 or of living in frozen regions, and by this means passing from 

 the Eastern to the Western continent on the ice, could be 

 expected to be found in the latter, in any other than \\\q fossil 

 state. It is true, we find animals in South- America which 

 appear, at present, only capable of inhabiting warm regions; 

 but it is well known, that both animals and vegetables have 

 the faculty of accommodating themselves to the climate in 

 ■which they are placed, and of gradually changing their cha- 

 racter. It is by no means improbable, therefore, that the an- 

 cestors of the animals now living in South-America had once 

 a northern constitution ; that after crossing the strait between 

 Asia and America, they gradually strayed further south ; and 

 that, in process of time, their offspring acquired southern ha- 

 bits and constitutions. 



Nor is it by any means difficult to suppose, that these fossil 

 ^uvice were deposited in the places where they are found, at 

 the subsidence of the waters of the general deluge. They 

 have been generally found in circumstances calculated long to 

 preserve them ; in strata of e»rth which tend to resist putrefac- 

 tiou, and which may account for their remaining entire after 

 so great a lapse of time. 



Quadrupeds, p. 119. 



Among the zoologists who have directed particular attention 

 to Quadrupeds^ during the last age, may be reckoned Pen- 

 nant, of Great-Britain, Brisson and Daubenton, of 

 France, Klein, Blumenbach, and Schreber, of Ger- 

 many, and Pallas, of Russia. Besides these, Ltnn,«us, 

 BufVon, and Zimmerman, treated ably on this as well as 

 otiier departments of zoology. 



