Note 941 — Chapter XXXIV · THE LEGENDS OF ADAPA, AND OF THE FLOOD

For the omission of fish from the cargo of Noah’s ark, Whiston in his philosophic A New Theory of the Deluge (London, 1737), accounts by the fact, that fish, living in a cooler, more equable element, were correcter in their lives than beasts and birds, who from the heat or cold on land engendered by the sun or its absence were prone to excesses of passion or exercises of sin, and so were saved!