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the Lama in Peru ; the Hippopotamus and Ostrich 

 in Africa. Now we may ask, how were all these 

 local animals conveyed from the place of disem- 

 barkation to the countries and climates that they 

 severally inhabit? In considering this question, 

 we must never lose sight of HIM, according to 

 whose will, and by whose Almighty guidance, 

 they were all led to the stations he had appointed 

 for them, and with reference to which he had 

 organized and formed them. Whatever second 

 causes he might commission to effect this purpose, 

 they were fully instructed and empowered by him 

 to accomplish the work intrusted to them. I do 

 not mean here to infringe the rule, Nee Deus 

 inter sit nisi dignus vindice nodus. Where the 

 faculties, senses, and wants of an animal were 

 sufficient for its guidance, there was no need for 

 Divine interposition, but where these are insuf- 

 ficient guides, the animal must attain its destined 

 station under some other influence. 



What brought the various animals to the ark 

 previously to the deluge? Doubtless a divine 

 impulse upon them, similar to that which caused 

 the milch-kine to carry the ark of the covenant to 

 Bethshemesh, with the offerings of the lords of 

 the Philistines. Noah, though he probably se- 

 lected the clean animals, at least those that were 

 domesticated, could have little or no influence 

 over the wild ones to compel them to congregate 

 by pairs, at the time fixed upon for their entry 



