period, it is reafonablc to fuppofe, that very 

 great quantities of materials were collected in 

 the bottom of the fca. This is agreeable to 

 what the Docflor fays, p. 13. *' The general 

 " amount of our reafoning is this, That nine 

 " tenths perhaps, or ninety-nine hundredths 

 " of this earth, fo far as we fee, have been 

 " formed by natural operations of the globe, 

 " in collecting loofe materials, and depofit- 

 ct ing them at the bottom of the fea ; confo- 

 " lidating thofe collections in various de* 

 " grees ; and either elevating thofe confoli- 

 " dated mafles above the level on which they 

 " were formed, or lowering the level of that 

 " fea." 



Page 1 7. " The ftrata, formed at the bet- 

 " torn of the fea, are to be confidered as ha- 

 " ving been confolidated either by aqueous 

 " folution and cryftallifation, or by the efFedl 

 " of heat and fufion." 



P. 54. " We now defire to know, how far 



" thofe internal operations of the globe, by 



" which folidity and {lability are procured to 



; the beds of loofe materials, may have been 



: alfo employed in railing up a continent of 



; land, to remain above the furface of the fea. 



" There ' 



