hath been any one Species IqH , no not of thtmost infirm and most exposed to injury ant *ravine. Moreover it is likely, that as theftneither is nor can le any new Species of A# 1 "mal produced,adproceedingfrom Seeds at firs*created ; so Providence without which one t*‘dividual Sparrow falls not to the Grounderin that manner watch over all that are cfft‘ted, that an entire Species shall not le loll ftdestroyed by any Accident. Now I fay , if theftBodies were sometimes the Shells and Bones ftfishy it will thence follow , that many Specifhave been lost out of the World, as for eX^ftpie, those Ophiomorphous ones, whose She* 5are now called Cornua Ammonis, of whiftthere are many Species, none whereof at ft ftday, appear in oar or other Seas, so far & .have hithertoseen, heard or read. To which:have nothing to reply , but that there may ftsome of them remaining some where or other ftthe Seas, though as yet they have not come {!my Knowledge. For though they may have ft'r/jhed or, by some Accident been destroyed ^as our Seas, yet the Race of tfiem may be ftftserved and continuedstill in others. So thow.Wolves andBevers , which we are well astitdwere sometimes native 0/ England, have bft 11here uttfrly destroyed and extirpated out of ft\Island, yet there remain plenty of them fist ^other Countrys.
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