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How could the animals, almoft peculiar to the arctic circle (a 

 rein-deer for example), or thofe only found in America at prefent, 

 have been procured for the ark, or infects in their different meta- 

 morphofes ? How was the proper food alfo to be fupplied for the 

 animals of the whole globe, for a year, when many of them, 

 particularly infects, only feed upon peculiar plants, which there- 

 fore muft have continued to vegetate in part of the ark deftined 

 for a conservatory. The animals again are directed to be male 

 and female ; many of which, within the twelvemonth, would 

 have procreated ; and from what {lores on board the ark was this 

 numerous offspring to be fupported ? 



The deluge, if univerfal, likewife continuing for a twelve- 

 month, all the annual plants of the globe muft have been de- 

 ftroyed, not to mention both fhrubs and trees, many of which 

 would have loft all vegetative power, after they had been covered 

 fo long by water, either frefh or fait. 



Having thus briefly ftated fome of the principal objections to a 

 general deluge, it may be right to fuggeft the heft anfwer I am 

 able to the only fuppofed proof of fuch an inundation, which con- 

 fefiedly carries with it much plaufibility, after which I fhall en- 

 deavour to explain the chapters of the book of Generis, which 

 relate to this great event. . 



It is frequently urged, that {hells of marine animals are found 

 on the tops of mountains, which could not be conveyed thither 

 by any other method. 



The firft anfwer to this is, that fuppofing the whole globe to 

 be covered with water, what could have been the inducement to 

 the fhell-fim (many of which perhaps cannot move) to defert 

 their proper habitation ip the bed of the fea, in order to tranfport 

 themfelves to the top of an inland mountain, where they muf* 

 immediately ftarve, for want of their ufual nounfhmcnt. 



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