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Many more instances might be adduced prov- 

 ing that animals have been placed originally in 

 certain stations, adapted to the habits resulting 

 from their organization and general structure, 

 from which some of them have sent forth their 

 colonies far and wide, while others, owing to 

 peculiarities in these respects, requiring a given 

 temperature and kind of food, or to local obsta- 

 cles stopping their further progress, have not 

 wandered beyond certain limits. 



Having, in the preceding pages, endeavoured 

 to account for the dispersion and present stations 

 of the various members of the animal kingdom 

 at large, not to leave the subject incomplete, I 

 must next make a few observations relative to 

 that of the human race. 



It has been a favourite theory of some modern 

 physiologists that God " hath not made of one 

 blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the 

 face of the earth," but that there are different 

 species of men as well as of animals : others, 

 who do not go quite so far, suspect that at the 

 last great deluge, besides Noah and his family 

 who were saved in the ark, some others escaped 

 from that sad catastrophe by taking refuge on 

 some of the highest mountain ridges of Asia and 

 Africa, and seem to insinuate that from these 

 arose the three principal races, the Caucasian, 



