48 (GEOGRAPHICAL AND LOCAL 



into the ark. So in the dispersion of animals, 

 wherever man went he took his flocks and 

 herds, and domestic poultry, and those in his 

 employment for other purposes, with him : but 

 the wild ones were left to follow as they would, 

 or rather as God directed. 



Every one who looks at a map of the world, on 

 Mercator's projection, can easily conceive how 

 the animal population of the greatest part of the 

 old world made their way into the different coun- 

 tries of which it consists, but when he looks 

 at America and New Holland, he feels himself 

 unable satisfactorily to explain the migration of 

 animals thither, especially those that can live 

 only in a warm climate, at least as far as regards 

 the former. How, he might ask, did the Sloths, 

 the Anteaters, and the Armadillos get to South 

 America? If the climate of Behrings Straits, 

 after the deluge, was as cold as it is at this day, 

 they could never have made their way thither, 

 and in those latitudes the temperature of which 

 was adapted to their organization the vast Pacific 

 presents an insuperable barrier. 



The same question may be asked with respect 

 to the indigenous animals of New Holland ; the 

 Kangaroo, the Cola, the Ornithorhynchus, the 

 Emu, and several others that are found in no 

 other country ; how did they, leaving the conti- 

 nent altogether, convey themselves to this their 

 appointed abode ? It is true the difficulty is not 



