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toward the equator — if this hypothesis is in- 

 deed true, and if all this occurred, we should 

 naturally expect to find a marked resemblance 

 in much of the flora and fauna, throughout all 

 the continents, of the northern hemisphere. 

 And this is precisely what we do find. 



It requires but little scientific training to con- 

 clude that the mammoth, mastodon, elephant, 

 buffalo, bison, elk, deer, hare and sheep, the 

 wolf, fox, weasel and martin, the beaver, otter, 

 bear, tiger, panther, lion, mountain lion and 

 wild cat, the crocodile, alligator, frog, salmon, 

 bass, trout and many other fresh-water fish ; 

 that the butterflies, bees, locusts, and numer- 

 ous kinds of ants and beetles ; that the end- 

 less tribes of small land birds ; that the oak, 

 elm, maple, ash, birch, beech, larch, chestnut, 

 and many pines, together with flowering- 

 plants, mosses, grasses, ferns and shrubs in- 

 numerable, which inhabit or have inhabited 

 all the continents of the northern hemisphere 

 almost indiscriminately, are related to each 

 other, and had respectively some common 

 ancestry and origin. 



Neither the indigenous theory nor any 



