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rufliing from c.nft to well, that the fragments carried to the weft 

 in fomc meafuve protedcd the more weftern. 38 Roz. 230. 238. 

 And that in general the mountains of this country were fo diforder* 

 cd (by the fliock) that the miners are obhged to work at hazard. 

 Ibid 226. Stcller makes the fame remarks on the mountains of 

 Kamfchatka, 51 Phil. Tranf. Part ii. p. 479- Storr, Hoepfner & 

 Sauffure, inform us that the inundation that invaded Swiflerland 

 proceeded from the fouth, but its impreffion was modified by 

 another event which I fhall prefently mention, i Hclvet. Magaz. 

 '73- '75' 4 Hel vet Magaz. 307. Lafius tells us that the moun- 

 tains of the Hartz fuggefl the fame inference. Hartz. 95. 



4thly, The very fhape of the continents which are all fharpened 

 towards the fouth, where wafhed by the fouthern ocean, indicate 

 that fo forcible an impreffion was made on them as nothing but the 

 mountains could refift, as the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Cornjorin, 

 the fouthern extremity of New Holland, and that of Patagonia; 

 Fofter's Obfervations, p. 11. 12. 



To thefe geological proofs perhaps I may be permitted to add 

 the tradition of the orthodox Hindus, that the globe was divided 

 into two hemifpheres, and that the fouthern was the habitation 

 of dasmons that warred upon the Gods. 3 Afiatic Refearches, 5 1& 52. 

 This war is commonly thought to be an allegorical defcription of 

 thej^W, and hence the olive branch, denoting a diminution of the 

 €ood, became a fyipbol of peace. 



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