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and Werner, geology consisted of little else than mere mem- 
bra disjecta; and it demanded no small share of anatomi- 
cal skill to bring ** bone to his bone.” Before their day. al- 
so, appeared many an aeroscopic phantom, called a theory of 
the earth ; to which, with literal propriety, we might apply 
another line of the poet: 
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cut lumen ademptum. 
buisson, Humboldt, Von Buch, Brocci, De Luc, Brochant, 
Delametherie. In th nike 
the last pavanty ‘seed n the hands of such men, geology, for 
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