KIRBV ON THE INSTINCTS OF ANIMALS, 
587 
‘‘ Discord, first 
Daughter of sin, amon^ tb’ irrational 
Death introduced through fierce antipathy. 
Beast now with beast '^an war, and t'oal with foal, 
And fish with fish ; to oraze thedierh all leavinp^. 
Devour’d each other ; nor stood much in awe 
Of man, but fled him ; or, with countenance grim. 
Glar’d on him passing.” 
The reader will perceive that the author is of opinion, that the 
different orders of animals orioinated in one quarter, and from 
which they subsequently spread themselves, according to circum¬ 
stances, over the rest of the surface ; and, to support his argu¬ 
ment, he first alters the natural instinct of one part of them — 
the ferocious hysena, the savage lion, the treacherous tiger, and 
the whole race of carnivorous animals, are turned into herbi¬ 
vorous and ruminatino; beasts. 
It will be perceived, too, that he has well provided for the pre¬ 
daceous animals with straw and hay; but for the carnivorous 
birds of the air, the voracious “ tenants of the deep,” together 
with the amphibife, amongst whom are found the most deter¬ 
mined enemies of man—the rattlesnake, the boa, and the cobra 
di capella, animals that convert the vicinities of their abodes 
into solitary deserts, where no other being dares to obtrude without 
suffering for its temeiity—these, all these, are left to starve, for 
he does not make mention of them at all : probably they like¬ 
wise ate hay and straw in Adam’s farm-yard. 
The general result of historical inquiry points out the East as 
the earliest or original seat of our species—the source of our 
domesticated animals, of our principal vegetable food, and the 
cradle of arts and science; but it does not furnish the means of 
deciding, that all living beings w’ere assembled in one spot at the 
commencement of the world. 
We will now’ follow our author to the ‘‘ Geographical and 
Local Distribution of Animals;” and under this head the first 
thing to be considered is, the means by which, after quitting the 
ark, they were conveyed to the other parts of the globe. The 
disembarkation of the venerable patriarch and his family, followed 
by all the animals preserved with him in the ark, took place on 
mount Ararat. 
“ It might be asked,” says the reverend gentleman, What 
brought the various animals to the ark previous to the deluge? 
Doubtless, a divine imrjdse upon them, similar to that which 
caused the milch-kine to carry the ark of the covenant to 
Bethshemesh, with the offering of the lords of the Philistines. 
Noah, though he probably selected the clean animals, at least 
those that were domesticated, could have little or no influence 
