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AN ILLUSTRATION and CONFIRMATION of SOME FACTS 

 mentioned in an ESSAY on the PRIMITIVE STATE of the 

 GLOBE.* By RICHARD KIRWAN, E/q; L. L. D. F. R. S. and 

 P.R.I. A 



1 HERE is a remarkable fadl, ftated in this eflay, with refpedl Read May 

 to which the Mofaic account is fully at iflue with the moft ^' ' ' 

 plaufible of the lately devifed philofophic theories of the primi- 

 tive ftate of the globe, namely, the emerfion of fome portion 

 of land from the primasval ocean, previous to the creation of 

 fifli. Mofes exprefsly affirming, BufFon, the anonymous author 

 of Lbijloire du Monde primitify and many others, exprefsly de- 

 nying it. In proof of the Mofaic account 1 alleged that no 

 petrifadlions were found imbedded and incorporated in maifes 

 of ftone in fuch countries as were elevated 8500 or 9000 feet 

 above the adual level of the fea ; for inftance, in the great 

 Tartarian platform and the elevated regions of Siberia, though 

 in all inferior regions of the fame extent fuch petrifadlions were 

 abundantly found, at leafl in limeflones ; but even in thefe none 

 svere found in thofe elevated tradls, as f proved by the teftimo- 



nies 

 '* See Vol. Vkh of the Tranfaftions of the Academy. 



