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imnate Laws are unchangeable, and accommodated only to fuch Climates as Nature has 
placed them in; fo that I believe there is no Creature whofe Race is fpread in all habi- 
table Parts of the World, as is that of the human Species. Each Animal feems Me 
have bis appointed Climate, out of which, if be be removed to one far different, bis 
Generation ceafeth or lofeth its firft Properties; whereas fuch Creatures as continue where 
Nature placed them, vary hardly at all from the Species from which they fprang, pre- 
Serving the fame Magnitude, Form and Colours throughout all Ages; for it Jeemeth as 
if God bad fet particular Marks of Diftinction.on.each Species from which they cannot 
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From this Reafon I found the Agreement between each different Generation of Animal 
and Plant, which always continues to bear the Form and Likenefs of thofe in which they 
were firft inclofed: Indeed fome domeftick Animals and Plants differ in’ fome Sort from. . 
thew firft Parents, which were favage. [take thefe Differences not to be very matertal, 
and to proceed from the unnatural Food, Habitation, and other Circumfances that may 
Iter the. Plant or Animal in Magnitude or Colour; which is not material, feeing thefe 
Things fo madé domeftick, if turned again to their native Habitations, in a Genera- 
tion or two caft off thofe Accidents attain’d by unnatural Situations, and recover their 
Jirft Forms and Colours ftamped on them in the frft Creation of the whole Species. 
Many who have wrote in former Times on Nature, Suppofe that all Things which were 
at firft-created by God on this Globe, have been ever Jfince, by bis Providence, continued 
through an implanted feminal Power down-to thefe Times, and will continue as long as 
the Earth endureth ; yet fome great Naturalifts in thefé Days are quite of a different 
Opinion, and their Reafons for thefe Opinions are founded on the great Variety of foffil 
Subjtances found daily in many Parts of the World, refembling Animals and Parts of 
Animals now in being, as well as Animals and Parts of Animals not to be met with 
by the moft laborious Searches of the Curious. 
From the general Face of Things we may fafely conclude there have been great Revo- 
lutions on the Face of this Earth, which in many Places feem to have been caufed by 
a great Quantity of Water prevailing, and pafing very fwiftly over its Surface, break~ 
ing up its lower Parts, and rearing them into Mountains, and carrying other Parts 
which 
