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p. 90, that the head of the Ganges is two thoufand miles diflant 

 from the fca, therefore the country it flows from is elevated 

 at leaft: eight thoufand eight hundred or nine thoufand feet. 



Now in thefe elevated trails no marine ftiells or petrifadions 

 are found in the body of any mountain, nor in any ftone not 

 even in limeflone though it abound particularly about the fources 

 of the Amour, Hcrm. i Chy. An. 1791, p. 155. But all the 

 calcareous maffes that occur are either what are called fal'me 

 like Carrara marble, or fo fine grained foliated as to appear 

 nearly compad, but of the primitive kind. This abfence of 

 marine fhells and petrifadions from fuch extenfive regions has 

 attraded the particular notice of all travellers into thefe parts as 

 they are fo abundantly found in all lower trads of the globe, 

 Gmelin, 45. Phil. Tranf. 254. Pallas, i Ad. Petrop. 44. Pa- 

 trin, 38 Roz. 227. And though fait fprings and lakes are found 

 in the higheft plains, Pallas, ibid. 38, and even coal mines in 

 the mountains, yet no organic remains accompany thefe mines 

 as they do in the lower trads of the globe, Patrin, 38 Roz. 

 226. Pallas indeed remarks fome few petrifadions have been 

 found in the rifts even of granitic mounts, but thefe he rightly 

 judges were depofited there at the time of the deluge ; ibid. 

 44. 



Hence I think it follows evidently that thefe trads were indeed 

 formed in the bofom of the primitive ocean, like all others, 



but 



