Mr. Farey’s Notes on Mr. Bakewell’s Geology. 257 
P..50, been) appears evidently to me, to have formed 
the valleys at the same time, but by no mechani- 
cal or natural law, that I can discover or devise, 
or have seen pointed out (Rep. i. 105, and Staf+ 
fordshire Report, p. 200). Infinite wisdom seems 
so to have disposed the forces that operated, in 
tearing-off* hundreds of yards thick of Strata, 
that the parting or rupture at the bottoms of the 
removed solid masses, were in the complicated 
waving planes, which now form the surface; or 
rather, which did so, before any alluvium was 
lodged, or decomposition had happened, to form 
the superficial soil, and slightly round the aspe- 
rities. The sudden removal of a large Seal from 
off its impression on wax, would give us an idea 
of this operation, if we could mentally separate 
. it from the previous compression of the yielding 
wax, into the shape of the seal. Here seems to 
be an operation of creative power on the vast ter- 
restrial globe, fully within our power to investi- 
gate, but which we cannot in any degree imitate, 
——which of them indeed can we imitate? or, in- 
deed, fully comprehend ?. 
$1, 1.11, it would sink*.—* Mr. B. might find himself 
puzzled, even with the assistance of the learned 
Illustrator of these Huttonian absurdities, to tell 
us, how a fluid mass, whether gaseous or of melted 
* That the removed Masses from denudated tracts and Valleys have 
moved off upwards, and not horizontally, in the direction or by the action of 
currents of water, moving in any imaginable courses, will I think admit of 
the clearest proof, from an accurate and minute examination of the tops of 
beddy or thinly stratified Rocks, and of the rulble formed by their Leing torn 
up ;—on the tops of Quarries and Cliffs, in many\ parts of our Island, and in 
most situations, as to hills and valleys, I have repeatedly and carefully studied 
this phenomenon, see my Note on p. 209. 
Mr: L. Horner saw two cases of this kind in the Limestone Quarries on 
the W flank of the Malvern Hills, but on returning to view one of them 
again, the Quarrymen had removed these loosened and erected parts of the 
. beds: andI cannot but suspect, that it was after this, and from recollection 
only, that Mr. L. drew the Section of these strata, which is published in the 
Geo. Trans. vol. i. 
Ashover Valley in Derbyshire, has presented many facts of this nature, and 
even of more decisive kinds, as to a temporary lifling action on the surface of 
the strata, whose precise localities I have pointed out, for re-examination of 
the curious facts which they exhibit, and mentioned the Names of the 
parties Seggpas: when several excavations were made, on purpose to explore 
the rubble, and are since closed again, in my Paper mentioned in a Note 
in my first Letter (p. 55.) But alas, my unfortunate production had no 
sublime speculations on primitive transition or secondary formations, to 
recommend it, not even on “ the independent Coal formation,” (P. M, xli. 
p- 305), and seemed to be thought unworthy ts appear in better company. 
Vol, 42. No. 186, Oct, 1813. R java, 
