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of Genesis, wherein it is declared that after the subsidence 

 of the deluge, " God spake unto Noah and to his sons with 

 him, saying, and I, behold I establish my covenant with you, 

 and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature 

 that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every 

 beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark, 

 to every beast of the earth /" 



Is it not evident from this latter passage that a marked 

 distinction is made between the beasts that went out of the 

 ark, — and some other beasts of the earth ? And what others 

 can we refer to, save to those which God had seen fitting 

 to create, in order that the new climates which the late re- 

 volution had produced, might be stocked and replenished in 

 common with all other quarters and portions of the globe ? 

 The passage, in short, clearly declares that God had esta- 

 blished his covenant not only with the human race, but like- 

 wise with all organised nature, as well the beasts which 

 were already in the earth. 



We have a still more convincing proof, if indeed such be 

 required, in the mention of an olive tree springing up imme- 

 diately on the retirement of the waters ; for as land trees and 

 plants could not survive beneath the deep waves of the 

 deluge, during a period of ten months, especially since the 

 surface of the former earth was swept off and " obliterated" 

 by the Almighty fiat on account of man's transgressions, — 

 so it is evident that the olive tree (which Professor Jameson 

 has incautiously cited as a proof that no change took place 

 between land and sea*) must either have been an entirely 

 new creation, or what will answer fully as well, — a recently 

 created individual of a species formerly existing. We derive 

 indeed from this circumstance a positive and undeniable 

 proof, that fresh creations took place after the deluge, be- 

 cause we know by the destruction of the earth's soils, that 



* Jameson's notes to Cuvier's Theory of the Earth. 



