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over the wild ones, to compel them to congregate by pairs, at the 
time fixed upon for their entry into the ark. So, in the dispersion 
of animals, wherever man went he took his flocks and herds, 
and domestic poultry, and those in his employment for other 
purposes, with him ; but the wild ones were left to follow as they 
would, or rather as God directed.’’ 
Now here our author again gets into difficulties. He has 
embraced an hypothesis full of contradictions, and at vanance 
with all our knowledge of living nature, in order that he might 
give to allegory a literal construction, and the character of reve¬ 
lation.” 
The astronomer,” says Mr. Lawrence, does not pourtray 
the heavenly motions, or lay down the laws which govern them, 
according to the statements in the Jewish Scriptures; nor does 
the geologist think it necessary to modify the results of expe¬ 
rience according to the contents of the Mosaic writings.” 
Every one who looks at a map of the world on Mercator’s 
projection, can easily conceive how the animal population of the 
greatest part of the old world made their way into the different 
countries of which it consists; but when he looks at America 
and New Holland, he feels himself unable satisfactorily to ex¬ 
plain the migration of animals thither, especially those that can 
live only in a warm climate, at least as far as regards the former. 
How, he might ask, did the sloths, the ant-eaters, and the arma¬ 
dillos get to South America ? The same question may be put 
with respect to the indigenous animals of New Holland—the 
kangaroo, the cola, the ornithorhynchus, the emu, and several 
others that are found in no other country. How did they, leaving 
the Continent altogether, convey themselves to this their ap¬ 
pointed abode ? It is true, the difficulty is not so great in the last 
case, on account of the numerous islands interposed between 
Malacca, Cochin-China, &c. and the north coast of New Hol¬ 
land ; but then it is unaccountable (if a transit of these animals 
was effected by natural causes, and following that of mankind 
from island to island, till they reached the country to which their 
range is now limited), that they should have left no remains of 
their race in the countries and islands which they must have 
travelled in their route; and those that would (and very probably 
did) accompany man, would be a different tribe of animals, 
more fitted to minister to his wants; so that, with respect to 
these, the difficulty still remains. 
‘‘ There is only one supposition,” the author confesses, that 
will enable him to account for the transport of these animals in 
a natural way,” which is this—“ that immediately subsequent 
to the deluge, America and New Holland, and the various other 
