
          most pointed and repeated. The whole 
 course was planned on a very high 
 ground, and his references to the 
 Creator were so natural and unconstrained 
 as to show that they were 
 never brought in for effect. 


 The points that J.A. [John Augustine] Smith has 
 got hold of was a few words at 
 the close of his lecture on the 
 geographical distribution of animals, 
 in which he applied [crossed out: his same] [added: the] views 
 he maintains (which are those of 
 Schouw still further extended) to man. 


 He thinks that animals and 
 plants were originally created in numbers, 
 occupying a considerable area, 
 perhaps almost as large as they now 
 occupy. [crossed out: He] (I should mention that 
 he opposes Lyell & others who maintain 
 that very many of the tertiary species 
 are the same as those now existing. 
 He believes there is not one such, but 
 that there was an entirely new creation 
 at the commencement of the historic era,
  which is all we want to harmonize 
 Geology with Genesis). Now, as to man 
 he maintains distinctly that they 

        