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cavities of the skull ' those holes where eyes did once 

 inhabit,' were often stopped up by shells or pieces of coral 

 forcibly crammed into them." The bones of the Mastodon 

 were found by Humboldt at an elevation of more than 7,000 

 feet above the sea, and in central Asia those of horses 

 and deer have been met with at an elevation of 1 6,000.! 



NOTE 8, p. 19. Burchel 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. 

 Burchel describes one under the name of Rhinoceros 

 simus.* Campbell's had a straight horn projecting three 

 feet from the forehead, different from any he had seen, 

 and its horn resembled that of the supposed unicorn. 3 

 There is in the Norwich Museum a horn flattened at the 

 summit, nearly straight, and three feet long, which also 

 seems to belong to another species. 



NOTE 9, p. 23. The word of God, in many places, 

 speaks of an abyss of waters under the earth. Scientific 

 men in the present day seem to question this. The passages 

 in Holy Writ, besides those quoted in the text, that 

 appear evidently to affirm that an abyss exists in the 

 earth, are chiefly the following. 



In the book of Genesis, in the blessings pronounced, 

 both by Jacob and Moses, 4 previous to their death, upon 

 the tribes of Israel, in that relating to Joseph, amongst 

 others are mentioned The blessings of the deep that lieth 

 under, or as the same words are more literally translated 



Quarterly Review, No. LVII. p. 155. 



2 Travels, ii. 75. Bulletin des Sc. Juin 1817. 96. 



3 Travels, 295. 



* Comp. Genes, xlix. 25 with Deut. xxxiii. 13. 



