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Earth that covered thofe that were found : we mud con- 
clude, I fay, from hence, that they have lain in this Place 
for many Centuries :'l won’t fay with Mr. Nev'tl ever finoe 
the Flood, becaufe I can’t fuppofe that the flight Texture 
of vegetable Subdances, Nutts and the Seeds of Rufhes, 
could poflibly have been preferv’d fo long : But this, at 
lead, may fafely be affirmed, that thefe Remains mud be 
Cotemporaries with fome of the remote Ages of the 
World ; which carries us fo far back into the earlied Times, 
that we can ne’er imagine the rude Inhabitants of Ireland , 
or any of their neighbouring Countries, were Mailers of 
fo much Art, in thofe Days of Ignorance and Darknefs, 
as to make Carriages by Sea drong and capable or of 
Curiofity and Politenefs enough, to tranfport a Bead of 
this large Size from thofe far didant Countries where 
’twas bred ; which they that now attempt do find a Work 
ofvad Care, Trouble and Expence, even in this Age 
wherein Navigation is brought to fuch perfe&ion. 
Thefe Confiderations, my Lord, grounded on other 
Jndances of the like kind, make me inclined to think 
this Elephant we are fpeaking of, might not be brought 
hither by any Care or lndudry of Man : but the Surface 
of this Terraqueous Globe might, in the earlied Ages of 
the World, after the Deluge , but before all Records of our 
olded Hiflories , differ widely from its prefent Geography , 
as to the Didribution of the Ocean and Dryland, its Jjlands , 
Continents and Shores, fo as to allow this Bead, and others 
of its Kind, for ought I know, that may by fome fuch Ac- 
cident hereafter be luckily difcoverd, a free and open 
Pafiage into this Country from the r -ontinenr. 
For otherwile, how can we e re explain that that other 
vad large dately Animal th e Moofe-Deer, little inferior to 
the Elephant it lelf, could have been brought to Ireland , 
(where elfewhere I have (hewn it urmerly was common,) 
from didant North America, even long before that Quar- 
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