CREATION OF ANIMALS. 19 



to those animals that required such shelter to 

 preserve them from destruction by the diluvial 

 waters; so that the expression " of all flesh" 

 necessarily admits of some exceptions. 



But there are doubtless very many animals 

 still existing upon the earth and in its waters, 

 that have not yet been discovered. When we 

 consider the vast tracks of terra incognita still 

 shut out from us in the heart of Africa, that fatal 

 country hitherto as it were hermetically sealed to 

 our researches, and from whose bourn so few 

 travellers return ; how little we know of Central 

 Asia, of China, and of some parts of North Ame- 

 rica; we may well believe that our catalogues 

 of animals are still very short of their real num- 

 bers, even with respect to those of the largest 

 dimensions. Burchell and Campbell appear to 

 have met with more than one new species of 

 rhinoceros in their journey from the Cape of 

 Good Hope into the interior ; J the same country 

 may conceal others of the same gigantic or other 

 tribes, which, when it is more fully explored, may 

 hereafter be brought to light. 



Again, with regard to the productions of the 

 various seas and oceans that occupy so large a 

 portion of our globe, we know comparatively 

 few, especially of its molluscous inhabitants. 

 What are cast up on the shores of the various 



1 See Appendix, note 8. 



