DELUGE 
further north, oe and other — ns Saal 
be ni tto frppofe of Indian and partly of Americ 
That the courte | here affirned is ats oe ee 
ie oe ae fells, Hes le and animal remains of thofe 
remote climates, fill found in Europg, anc 
ders, and England, the {poils of the northera climates, and 
thofe of the fouttern alfo, are equally found; thus the teeth 
- of arGic bears, and bones of whales, as ell: as thofe of ani- 
ie of more fouthern origin, have been difcovered in thofe 
ar 
: Whe encounter of fuch enormous maffes of water in oppo- 
fite direGtions mnuft have produced a ftupendons effect ; fuch 
as appears to e been fufficient for fhaking and hattering 
fome of the folid vaults ner a the fubjacent ftrata o 
the globe. o this concu vr. Kirwan afcribes the 
formation of or bed of the Aan which fee. The wreck 
of fo confiderable an integrant part of the globe muft ne- 
ceffarily hae convalled the adjacent fill ney an — 
previoufly con with it, rent their ftony ek 
the ftill more “folid mafles of their mountains, in 
fome cafes framed, and in others prepared, the infular ‘Rate 
mec 
to which thefe fracture dtr 
O 
as 
though on probably pre 
bafaltic maffes on the Scotch ce Trifh 
Feroe appear to him to een rent into pillars by this 
concuffion. During this elemental conflif&t, and the crafh 
and ruin of the fubmerged continent, many of its component 
arts mult have been reduced to atoms, and difperfed through 
muf alfo have abforbed the fixed air contained 
nike bowels of the funk continent; and farther, by this 
oar enced depreflion, whole derelinguifhed {pace was occu- 
pied by water, the level of the whole diluvial ocean muft 
have been funk, and the fummits ofthe higheft raountains mutt 
acd Lapland uae to it, its particles may have been kept 
sin folution byt xed air, and the argillaceoug, filiceous and 
cevbanaeeols partic icles may have been long fufpended. Thefe 
y waters mixing with thofe impregnated with bitumen, 
ae tollowing combinations muft have taken place. 1. Fear re 
bonic matter was allo contained i in the water, this unitin 
mee not 
r oxygen » erup- 
med thofe « ratte hich bein 
filled by the fubfequent coalatian of fuc their ingre- 
dients as were fuperfluous to their bafaltic tate formed chal- 
cedonies, zeoliths, olivine, bafaltines, Hence 
snoft of the mountains of Sweden that afford; iron, afford alfo 
Strahan and Prefton, 
New-Sueet Square, London. 
bitumen. Hence alfo the oe found pe trap, ard under 
bafalts, and in bal!s of chalcedony foundin trap. This Mr. 
Kirwan conceives to be the lalt ae of this dread‘ul ca- 
taftrophe ; and hence no fhells are found ia bai bafalts, 
thofe having been previoufly depofited, thoug h fome ether 
lighter marine vegetable remains have Cae been found 
in Y them ; fome arg jlaecous or fand-ftone flrata may alfo have 
been depofted at this period. 
To. the Mofaic account it oe been objected, that the 
countries near Ararat are too cold to bear oltve-trees. 
Tournefort, who firft made this o abjection, fhould ge res 
colle€ted, that at this early perio the ae and Kuxine 
tas were joined, as he himfeif has proved. This cipcum- 
{tance fitted a routes ehh in the 38th degree of latitude to 
produce olives, whic wg ch hgher par ine 
at — aie only by its diflance from the fea. (Sce 
e plaufible objeGion arifes from the dif- 
fay of colleding an finding all the various fpecies of ani- 
mals now known, fome of which can exift only in the hottett, 
and others only in the coldef climates. 
fary to fuppofe that any others were coll: Gec 
fides thofe moft iia for the ule or man, and a only of 
the graminivorous o an fuz- 
efting that the ee were oobi Fee ae Ace. 
At this early period ravenous animals were not cnly not necef- 
fary, but would have been even deitrutive to aay 8 who ha 
jut obtained exiltence, and probably not in great numbers. 
They only became neceflary when the graminivorous had 
multiplied to fo great a degree that their carcafles would 
have fpread infeGiion. Hence our sae led to fappofe that 
were of pofterior creation ; o this circumitance he 
xiftenc 
confequences. 
proportion as they gre 
oxygen muft have been oe 
shauoa multiplied, great quantities of 
m into the atmo- 
the flate of things was re the furface of the earth 
was cover ad and putrefying land animals or fifh, 
ich ioufly abforbed the oxygenous part of the atmo 
fourths of mephitic. Hence the conftitu 
hav e bee ware and the lives of their neces ee 
to their prefent ftandar In order to 
o have bee 
China, and to this circumftance be cube the early origin 
of the Chinefe monarchy. 
After all, whatever might be the hla olee phyfical 
caufe of the deluge, and ae might e mode of its 
operation, we mult on ala occafion have cat to a di- 
vine interpofition and energy. [or though the waters 
which covered the earth i “the creation ie be — 
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