original stocks.

In the second place, it is clear that there was no animal life
before the fifth day, and that, on the fifth day, aquatic
animals and birds appeared. And it is further clear that
terrestrial living things, other than birds, made their
appearance upon the sixth day and not before. Hence, it follows
that, if, in the large mass of circumstantial evidence as to
what really has happened in the past history of the globe we
find indications of the existence of terrestrial animals, other
than birds, at a certain period, it is perfectly certain that
all that has taken place, since that time, must be referred to
the sixth day.

In the great Carboniferous formation, whence America derives so
vast a proportion of her actual and potential wealth, in the
beds of coal which have been formed from the vegetation of that
period, we find abundant evidence of the existence of
terrestrial animals. They have been described, not only by
European but by your own naturalists. There are to be found
numerous insects allied to our cockroaches. There are to be
found spiders and scorpions of large size, the latter so similar
to existing scorpions that it requires the practised eye of the
naturalist to distinguish them. Inasmuch as these animals can be
proved to have been alive in the Carboniferous epoch, it is
perfectly clear that, if the Miltonic account is to be accepted,
the huge mass of rocks extending from the middle of the
Palaeozoic formations to the uppermost members of the series,
must belong to the day which is termed by Milton the sixth.
But, further, it is expressly stated that aquatic animals took