2dly. They being, or having been land animals, 

 and not in (he habit of associating with whales, 

 sharks, or porpoises, but being found with the re- 

 mains of these animals, affords a very strong presump- 

 tive evidence, that they must have been conveyed from 

 the primitive soil, or what was the ancient continent, 

 to where they are now found. 



In support of this, M. Cuvier, when speaking of 

 fossil organic remains of quadrupeds found upon 

 islands in the sea, says, " When they (the islands) 

 contain any of the larger quadrupeds, these must have 

 been carried to them from other countries."* 



3dly. Since these animals were the inhabitants of 

 dry land, it is highly improbable that they would 

 voluntarily leave that situation, and go the distance at 

 which they are found from the original or primitive 

 borders of the continent, and deposite themselves 

 BELOW low water mark, and that too when, probably, 

 the ocean still occupied it ; and since it is pretty plain- 

 ly proved by the learned Cuvier, that some of these 

 animals, as the mammoth, were extinct before mankind 

 inhabited the earth, they must have been carried there 

 by force ; and since no common means could have 

 effected this operation, we are compelled to refer it to 

 the operations of a general current that flowed from 

 the north, f and by which, they, with the whole mass of 



* Cuvier's Theory, page 75. 



| There is reason to believe that M. Cuvier, at least suspected 

 that some of the existing phenomena may have been produced by 



