ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY 



OF 



FISHES. 



The naturalist, by his observations on the phe- 

 nomena of life, is irresistibly led to the conclusion, 

 that a progressive advancement towards the per- 

 fect organization of man, is discoverable in the 

 whole chain of inferior existences. 



As it respects the time and order of the crea- 

 tion of animals, we are expressly informed, in the 

 book of Genesis, that on the fifth day after the 

 creation of the world, " God said, ' let the waters 

 bring forth abundantly, the moving creatures that 

 hath life, &ic.' " Moreover, the sacred chronicle 

 further says, that " God created great whales, and 

 every living creature that moveth, which the wa- 

 ters brought forth abundantly after their kind." 

 Man was created on the sixth — and the seventh 

 was the first Sabbath — a day of rest. 



