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QUADRUPEDS OF THE NEW WORLD. 
it will be abfurd to deny the poffibility of infufing inftin& into the brute creation. 
Deus ¢f anima brutorum; Gop himfelf is the foul of brutes: His pleafure 
muft have determined their will, and dire&ted feveral fpecies, and even whole 
genera, by impulfe irrefiftible, to move by flow progreffion to their deftined re- 
gions. But for that, the Llama and the Pacos might ftill have inhabited the 
heights of Armenia and fome more neighboring Alps, inftead of laboring to gain 
the diflant Peruvian Andes; the whole genus of Armadillos, flow of foot, would 
never have abfolutely quitted the torrid zone of the Old World for that of the 
New; and the whole tribe of Monkies would have gambolled together in the 
forefts of India, inftead of dividing their refidence between the fhades of Indo/tan 
and the deep forefts of the Bra/ils. Lions and Tigers might have infefted the 
hot parts of the New World, as the firft do the deferts of Africa, and the laft the 
provinces of Afia; or the Pantherine animals of South America might have re~ 
mained additional fcourges with the favage beafts of thofe antient continents. 
The Old World would have been overftocked with animals ; the New remained an 
unanimated wafte! or both have contained an equal portion of every beaft of 
the earth. Let it not be objected, that animals bred in a fouthern climate, af- 
ter the defcent of their parents from the ark, would be unable to bear the froft and 
{now of the rigorous north, before they reached South America, the place of their 
final deftination. It muft be confidered, that the migration muft have been the 
work of ages; that in the courfe of their progrefs each generation grew 
hardened tothe climate it had reached ; “and that after their arrival in America, 
they would again be gradually accuftomed to warmer and warmer climates, in 
their removal from north to fouth, as they had in the reverfe, or from fouth to 
north. Part of the Tigers ftill inhabit the eternal fnows of 4rarat, and mul- 
titudes of the very fame fpecies live, but with exalted-rage, beneath the Line, in 
the burning foil of Borneo or Sumatra; but neither Lions or Tigers ever mi- 
grated into the New World. A few of the firft are found in India and Perfia, 
but they are found in numbers only in Africa. The Tiger extends as far north 
as weftern Tartary, in lat. 40. 50, but never has reached Africa. I fhall clofe 
this account with obferving, that it could be from no other part of the globe 
except Afia, from whence the New World could receive the animal creation. 
The late voyage of the illuftrious Coox has reduced the probable conjectures of 
philofophers into certainty. He has proved that the limits of the Old and New World 
approach within thirteen leagues of each other. We know that the intervening 
ftreights are frequently frozen up ; and we have great reafon to fuppofe, that the two 
continents might have been once united, even as low as the Aleutian iflands, or lat 
52+ 30. Thus are difcovered two means of paflage from A/a to America; the laft 
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