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whole continent of Afia is in a climate much more 
northern, than the neighbouring Indian ocean. 
But, if this folution of the difficulty is not thought 
fufficient, it may be added, that fo great a con- 
cuffion, and fuch a change in the figure of the earth, 
as muft have happened from the fubterraneous fires 
elevating fo many parts higher than they were be- 
fore, might poffibly affett the gravitation of the 
parts of the globe of the earth, and caufe it to re- 
volve round a different axis after the flood 5 whence 
there would undoubtedly arife a change of climate 
in all parts, fufficient to account for the prefent fitu- 
ation of ffiells, in places fo foreign to the climates 
where fhell fiffi of the fame fpecies are now found. 
And as I have before obferved with regard to feeds, 
fo it may alfo be obferved with regard to fhell fiffi, 
that the conveyance of a very few of each fort (by 
the flux of water) to the beds proper for them, 
would be fufficient to preferve all the various kinds, 
and to caufe them now to be found in fuch numbers, 
in thofe parts of the ocean that are beft adapted to 
each peculiar clafs. 
Another thing proper to be taken notice of, is the 
horns and bones of terreftrial animals being found in 
the earth, together with foffil ffiells j which feems 
to contradict the fuppofition of the prefent conti- 
nents having been originally the bottom of the fea. 
But with regard to this, I muff beg leave to obferve, 
that probably fome of thofe bones have been depo- 
fited there fince the flood, and have been covered by 
an addition of earth, as has happened alfo to fome 
of the trees and woods that were cut down in this 
iftand by the Romans. And, as to the reft, it cannot 
