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tions, almost every living thing upon its surface was 

 not only destroyed, but annihilated, it is a very diffe- 

 rent subject. But whether correct and true, or not, is 

 more than any mortal living can ever prove. Never- 

 theless, his views of the subject were dignified and 

 sublime ; his researches were deep and extensive, and 

 so intent was his mind upon this interesting topick, 

 that he suffered it to be swept away by the resistless 

 current, occasioned by the irruption of waters from the 

 southern ocean, to attend to the frightful scene of bury- 

 ing alive, by thousands, elephants and rhinoceri, 

 without thinking of any other part of the world. 



What, let us ask, must or would have been the con- 

 sequence of the waters of the southern ocean, leaving 

 it, for the purpose of inundating or deluging every foot 

 of earth upon the globe ? It appears to me to need no 

 astronomical calculations to determine, that its conse- 

 quences must have been worse, than that of the deluge. 



Had Mr. Kirwan been assisted by a knowledge of 

 one-tenth part of the existing facts, that have a most 

 intimate bearing on, and relation to the subject of cur- 

 rents that are supposed to have been connected with 

 the universal deluge ; had he bestowed a more minute 

 and critical examination on these facts, and extended 

 his views so far as to have embraced every continent 

 upon the globe, in order to determine the relation and 

 extent of their operations ; he might, with the half of 

 his intelligence and sagacity, have discovered such a 

 series of analogies and correspondencies, presenting 



