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Germany take their courfe from the weftern fides, the firft of the 

 Bohemian and the other of the Moravian mountains which yet 

 are the fteepeft ; many originate from lakes, as the Shannon with 

 us ; many take fuch a winding courfe that from a bare knowledge 

 of the place of their difemboguement it is impoffible to judge 

 from what fide of a mountain they iffue, if from any ; 'their 

 cpurfe at moft difcovers the depreffion of the general level of the 

 country. 



In 1798, the celebrated traveller and circumnavigator, John 

 Reinhold Fofter, publifhed a geological trad which merits fo much . 

 more attention as all the fads were either obferved by himfelf 

 or related to him by the immediate obfervers. In this he ftates 

 as a fad univerfally obferved, that the fouth and fouth eail fides 

 of almoft every mountain are fieep, but that the north and north 

 weft fides are gently covered and conneded with fecondary ftrata 

 in which organic remains abound, which he illuftrates by various 

 inftances, fome of which have been already, and others will pre- 

 fently be mentioned. 



At prefent this fad attrads the greateft attention being ob- 



vioufly conneded with the original ftrudure of the globe and 



clearly proving that mountains are not mere fortuitous eruptions 



. unconoeded with tranfadions on the furface of the earth as has 



0/ late been confidently advanced. 



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