482 On the Creation, Diffusion, and 



the vegetation which grew in those soils must also have 

 been destroyed with them ; and we know likewise, that the 

 olive tree from which the dove plucked a leaf, was neither 

 planted nor sown by Noah, and consequently, that it was of 

 spontaneous and immediate growth, or an especial creation 

 after the deluge. 



Now it has already been shown in a former essay,* and 

 that strictly in accordance with the rules of geological rea- 

 soning, that the vast mountains of the Himalaya were not in 

 existence previous to the visitation of the Mosaic deluge. It 

 will follow therefore, as a matter of course, that the climates 

 and stations now produced by the various elevations and 

 local peculiarities of those regions, were likewise not in 

 existence previous to that grand catastrophe ; and it more- 

 over follows, that as some plants and animals are found to be 

 peculiar to those new climates and stations, they too must 

 date their origin subsequent to the event which called the 

 hills and climates into existence. 



Thus it is evident that when our first parents were driven 

 out of Eden, and vast mountains were upheaved, the cold 

 summits of those ranges produced stations for which as yet 

 no proper or peculiar vegetation or animals existed. 



Again, after the deluge, when the vast mountains which 

 now adorn the earth were first upheaved, they likewise tower- 

 ed to a height which was unknown in the warmer antedilu- 

 vian era, and consequently again formed climates and stations 

 for which few, if any, of the already created beings were 

 adapted. Fresh creations were therefore indispensably ne- 

 cessary, unless those regions were intended to be left barren 

 and untenanted. 



As we perceive, however, that those elevated tracts pro- 

 duce some species peculiar to themselves, we are led at 

 once to acknowledge that fresh creations must positively 

 have taken place. 



* J. A. Society, Geology of the Western Himalaya. 



