18 - THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 
prior to the Adamic creation^ and the inhabitants of the 
present state.* Where are now the mastodons, the mega- 
theriums, the saurian giants of those days ? But surely if 
we make so vast a leap as from one world to another, the 
very forms of terrestrial things would be obliterated, and a 
corresponding difference appear, which nothing but infinite 
Wisdom could devise. 
This we may never know till we become denizens of that 
changeless state to which time and space are nothing : when 
we shall know as we are known. — But we have completed 
our circumambulation, and are just at home. 
* It is scarcely necessary to remark, that there is nothing in the Word 
of God, which opposes the commonly received opinion, that this world had 
an existence in a habitable state, previous to the chaos which prevailed at 
the commencement of the Sacred narrative. 
