CONCHO LOG V. 



purposes of animal and vegetable life, and invading other 

 regions more exposed to their resistless and overwhelming 

 force. The Flood however appears to our minds from all 

 evidence we can derive from facts and reasoning, to have 

 been attended with a sudden and violent impetus of the 

 greater oceans, from some cause which afterwards gradually 

 subsided. 



If ever the axis of the Earth became suddenly altered 

 to its present inclination by the attraction of a comet, this 

 would at once account reasonably and theoretically for 

 the great and awful effect. For the equatorial and southern 

 waters which swell gradually out from the centrifugal 

 force of the earth in its diurnal motion, would be sud- 

 denly impelled forwards, rush over and cover the whole 

 North West continent of Europe, and certain parts of 

 Asia and Africa. Perhaps its force might even reach over 

 the continent of America. If the earth with a constant 

 diurnal motion keeping this degree of inclination in its 

 axis, went, on regularly in its annual orbit, the wafers 

 would again refire from those Continents which it had 

 invaded and enveloped, and the surface of the earth would 

 be renewed and re-animated from those parts which had 

 all along remained untouched and unbroken. The parts 

 of the earth which would escape the force of such an 

 overwhelming change of the waters, being most distant 

 from, the Equator, would be the whole of the large con- 

 tinent of New Holland, and some parts of Asia, Africa, 

 and America, and it will be observed that no fossils are 

 found in New Holland, nor any plants, or animals, or 

 shells similar to any other part of the world. But in 

 respect to those plants and animals which are found fosii 

 in the mountains of Europe, of Asia, and of America, 

 partially in different districts of these regions, these reliques 

 are asserted to be now living in the Equatorial regions. 



