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Since then it is certain, that all our fodil fhells are 
foreign to our climates, except fuch, as are common 
to the whole globe, we may conclude, that Monf. de 
Buffon’s theory is in this refpeCt abfolutely defective. 
Befides, we find not only a very great quantity of 
foffil fhells and other marine bodies, but likewife a 
great number of impreffions of foreign plants, moftly 
of the capillary kind, on flates and other dones ; and 
it is now certain, that all the fodil wood of Lough- 
neagh in Ireland (as in mod other places, where fuch 
wood is found) has been produced in a different cli- 
mate ; and, if I midake not, has been compared and 
found to agree with recent fpecimens from America. 
Bones, and even intire fkeletons of rhinocerofes, ele- 
phants, and other foreign land animals, are difco- 
vered pretty commonly through all Europe ■ and 
in Ireland, very large horns of American moofe-deer 
have been dug up. All thefe fubdances are com- 
monly found near to, or in the fame drata with, fodil 
fhells, and other marine bodies ; and all of them, 
whether original productions of fea or land, appear 
evidently to have been depofited in the places, where 
we now find them, by one and the fame caufe. To 
account for thefe phenomena, I believe Monf. de 
Buffon mud admit a univerfal deluge, fuch as is 
related in the Holy Scripture : and if a deluge of this 
kind is once admitted, why fhould we adign other 
caufes for the tranfportation of marine and terref- 
trial bodies into climates foreign to thofe, where 
they were produced ? Why, fiy Monf. de Buffon 
and the author of Telliamed, becaufe many thoufands 
of years feem to have been requifite for the production 
of fo immenfe a quantity of fea-fhells as thofe we 
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