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Title: Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student (microform) : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources
Identifier: cihm_49136 (find matches)
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bovell, James, 1817-1880
Subjects: Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle
Publisher: (Toronto? : s. n. )
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480 America and the north of Europe was covered by sea, in consequence of the general subsidence of the continents. It is not until this period, that we find, in the deposits known as the diluvial or pleistocene formation, incontestible traces of the species of animals now living. It seems, saysAgassiz, from the latest researches of geologists, that the animals belonging to this period are exclusively marine, for, as the northern part of both continents was covered to a great depth with water, and only the summits of the mountains were elevated above it, as islands, there was no place in our latitudes where land or fresh-water animals could exist. They appeared, therefore, at a later period, after the water had again retreated; and as, from the nature of their organization, it is impossible that they could have migrated from other countries, we conclude that thev were created at a more recent period than our marine animals. Among the land animals which *.hen made their appearance, there were representatives of all the genera and species now living around us, and, besides these, many types now extinct, some of them of gigantic size, such as the mastodon, the remains of which are found in the uppermost strata of the earth's surface, and probably the very last large animal which be- came extinct before the creation of man. The im- portant facts just narrr»ted, afford most interesting illustration of the truth of the Mosaic record, and tend strongly to confirm the correctness of that most

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