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roughly soaked by them, we see immediately that their 

 deposition and sepulture, as well as the putting together 

 again of the dislocated remains of the primeval earth, must 

 have been an important part of the office of the subsiding 

 waters, upon which I shall now offer a few observations. 



It has been a matter of surprize that amidst so many 

 fossil animals which are daily brought to light, and those 

 of some of the largest quadrupeds in great numbers, 1 no 

 remains of the human race have yet been discovered, except 

 in one or two solitary instances. As the deluge was caused 

 by the wickedness of these old giants, as they have been 

 called, but really apostates, 2 these men of renown, it was 

 evidently a miraculous interference of the Deity for their 

 punishment ; it seems, therefore, by no means improbable, 

 that the place of their burial was not left to chance, or the 

 uninfluenced action of physical causes, but, like the burial 

 place of Moses, was decreed by God, and fixed so as to be 

 placed beyond discovery. 



It seems to have been the opinion of most modern 

 geologists, that fossil animals in general were natives of 

 those districts or countries in which their remains have 

 been discovered. But whoever takes into consideration 

 the account, above detailed, which the sacred writings 

 give us of the universal deluge, and of the prevalence of the 

 waters above the summits of the highest mountains, will 

 see at once, with the exception of those that were over- 

 taken and drowned by the waters in dens or caverns, they 

 must have floated when the waters had reached and 

 flooded all the elevations upon which they had taken their 

 last refuge, and they would have drifted off north or south, 

 or in any other direction the fluctuating element was 

 taking, and if there was an alternate flux and reflux, they 



1 See Reliqida Diluv. 138 182. 2 Heb. D'^SJ 



