Litchfield enquirer., 1835-10-01

" here lhey al nrst t0uu0 tS 6ucn fOcAS must first have,heen broken 6f by violent con vulsiOns, and then bOrne away by iOvfeOts.
 Leaves and plants are hOWnd in the diluviaE formations, and SO are Animalss and what is worthy of notice, these animals are entirely distiact from those found in lower regions of the earth and described in former lectores.- They are found in all partsOf the world Great Britain has immense numbers of tTOpl- cal animals thus embedded. They were Da- lives of the country, as they could not have been transported. .~'> s'~'++ ,'
 Two hundred years ago, the question was agitated whether these were animals. It has
 been long settled that they were real animals.
 The theological error is to assign all the ani'
 mals that have been found in the earth to the deluge.- Such assignment involves q natural
 inpOssibility tn regard tO those below the di-
 Iuvinm. In England are the bones of the eIe- phant, tiger. hyena, rhinocerOs, Sc. The
 shores of the frezen ocean, in Russia, have immense numbers of elephants. Not great
 while since, a company of fishermen discOv-
 cred a strange appearance on the northern
 shore of Russia; the next season, as they vis- ited it, it was stiiI more strange, and on the 1 third year they found it had fallen down from f its icy position. and it proved to be an ante dcluvian elephant, of IS feet in length, cover 1 ed with hair, uSith huge hrisslrs v" ita Oeck. | making mane of three feet in elevation. Its tusks were excellent ivory; and the entire
 skeleton is now in the museum of St. Peters.
 burgh. Cuvier thought this to be Ofa differ
 ent species from any elephant now in exist
 ence. There are whole islands made up of
 ice and bones. The animals were, no doubt. natives of those regions. Even the rhinoce- ros and tiger are there. But whence did they obtain their food, as many of them were her.
 bivorous? They were probably, he said. mi gratory; and in one part of the year were in one region, and in another part of the year in another region. The mammoth is found in Russia and the Russians think it resembles the mole, from their belief that it lived under ground.
 The Mastodop, not the Mammoth, is found
 throughout our continent, both in North and
 South America. In the structure Ofthe teeth,
 there is a difference between tl.e n1ast0don of this country and the mammoth of Russia The mastodon could not have been carnivor ous, for his head could not have come to the ground and he could neither have caught, nor torn in pieces, nor eaten. animal f"Od.-( The proboscis of this kind of animals is an excellent substitute for what others possess. Sm-llie says that the elephant is the only an- imal known that carries his nose in his hand. The saine genus of animals has beeD discoy cred in Asia. Many of them must have been covered up by diluyial action. An elk has been found whose height was | 2 feet. and the distance between the extremities of whose antlers was 12 feet. There are caverns in 1 England, containing the bones of hyenas. and also the bones of other animals marked and gnawed by the teeth "f hyenas. showing that they dragged their prey into these dens, and it there. In Germany there are caves filled with the bones of bears, which are represented to have been as large as our horses. The caves in this country do not contain bones. as far as they have been open 1 ed and explored.
 Masses of earth and water, such as only a general deluge could sweep along. must have destroyed and buried these animals that have been enumerated. On the whole. MT. Sii- l man viewed these facts of themselves as sui fcient to establish the belief of a deIuge, or of dcInges; and when to these is added the cred ible history of Moses, without insisting in this place "n his inspiration, and also the indeIibIe impression. or common tradition throughout j. the world, that there has been deluge there 1 is no room for reasonable doubt on the sub ject. lSotem Landmark. ]