PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. 
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being deduced from the analogies extant in each. These 
investigations are confirmed by the Scriptural account 
that “The whole earth was of one language and of one 
speech/* previous to the Flood, and it describes the first 
migration as coincident with the subsidence of the 
waters. 
That violent cataclysms have since altered the face of 
the then existing earth, the records of geological science 
amply show; and that some of mankind, in every portion 
of the then inhabited world, survived these catastrophes, 
and subsequently perpetuated the varieties of race, may 
be inferred from those differences in moral and physical 
features which now exist, and which have sometimes 
suggested the impossibility of a collective derivation 
from one stock. The philological thread, although gene¬ 
rally a mere filament of extreme tenuity, holds all firmly 
together. 
That animals had been domesticated in a very early 
stage of man’s existence, we have distinct proof in many 
recent geological discoveries, and all these discoveries 
show the same animals to have been in everv instance 
subjugated ; thus pointing to a primitive and earlier 
domestication in the regions where both were originally 
produced. That pasture land was provided for the sus¬ 
tenance of these animals, they being chiefly herbivorous, 
is a necessary conclusion. Thence ensues the fair 
deduction that phanerogamous , or flower-bearing plants 
coexisted, and bees, consequently, necessarily too,—thus 
participating reciprocal advantages, they receiving from 
these plants sustenance, and giving them fertility. 
These islands, under certain modifications, were, pre¬ 
vious to the glacial period, one land with the continent of 
Europe; and it Avas when thus connected that those 
