488 Creation, Diffusion, &; Extinction, of Organic Beings. 



which were, in all probability, such as the Almighty foresaw 

 would be of service to mankind, and fitting to reside in the 

 altered temperatures of the postdiluvian era. 



As the waters again subsided therefore from the face of 

 the earth, a fresh vegetation every where sprung up, adapt- 

 ed to the climates in which it was to flourish, and for which 

 alone it was proper. Animals, too, of various kinds, with 

 constitutions adapted to the varied temperature and circum- 

 stances of the earth, were again created to supply the place of 

 those which had again become extinct, and to tenant those 

 new climates which the revolution had produced. 



Of this fact, too, proof may be gathered as well from the 

 doctrines of Holy Writ, as from the phenomena unfolded to 

 our view in the rich pages of Nature's book. 



Thus we perceive truly, that " the creatures have been 

 formed with a view to the varying conditions of the earth's 

 surface," and that each has been placed in those countries 

 and climates where its services were alone required, and for 

 which its constitution was peculiarly and particularly adapt- 

 ed, and we reject, therefore, as contrary to nature and re- 

 corded facts, the theory of progressive diffusions from a 

 central focus. 



To enter farther at present into the causes and effects of 

 these geological revolutions, and the phenomena they have 

 given origin to, w r ould be foreign to our purpose ; but should 

 the farther elucidation of this important and interesting sub- 

 ject be desired, we shall have pleasure in recording our 

 opinions in some future essay. 



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Candahar, 

 \Qth September, 1840. 



