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been inhabited. But mountains regularly ftratified bearing fuch 

 remains, for inflance the Carboniferous, cannot be deemed to have 

 been formed in a period fo tumultuous. During this deluge 

 the waters alfo held a different courfe, proceeding at firft from 

 fouth to north and afterwards in both oppofite dire<flions in our 

 weftern hemifphere a&lhewn in treating of that cataflrophe in my 

 fecond effay. 



Hence, and from various contingent local caufes, as partial 

 inundations, earthquakes, vokanos, the erofion of rivers, the 

 elapfion of ftrata, difintigration, the difruption of the lofty 

 mounds by which many lakes were antiently hemmed in, feveral 

 changes were produced in particular countries that may at 

 firft fight appear, though in reality they are not, exceptions to 

 the operation of the general caufeS; already ftated. 



Thus the mountains of Kamfkatflca had their eaftern flanks 

 torn and rendered abrupt by the irruption of the general de- 

 luge probably accompanied by earthquakes. And thus the 

 Meiffener had its E. and N. flanks undermined by the River 

 Warra, as Werner has fliewn ; thus the eighth and fixteenth ob- 

 fervations are accounted for, as is the thirteenth by the vaft 

 inundations fo frequent in this country, i. Pallas, p. 172, which 

 undermined or corroded its E. -fide while the weflern were 

 fmoothed by the calcareous depofitions from the numerous 

 livers in its vicinity. 



VcL. VIII. G Hence 



