" 



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in the bodies which have been heated by 

 that igneous vapour ; and that matter fo- 

 reign to the ftrata may have been thus in- 

 1 trodueed into the fraftures and reparation* 

 " of thofe indurated mafles." 



Page 57. " The ftrata of the globe are ac- 



1 tually found in every poflible position. For 



c from horizontal they are frequently found 



" vertical ; from continuous, they are bro- 



c ken and feparated in every poflible direc- 



" tion ; and from a plane, they are bent and 



" doubled. It is impoflible that they could 



" have originally been formed by the known 



" laws of nature, in their prefent ftate and 



" pofition j and the power that has been ne- 



" ceiFarily required for their change, has not 



" been inferior to that which might have 



" been required for their elevation from the 



" place in which they had been formed." 



Page 55. " It is a truth unqueftionable, 

 " that what had been originally at the bottom 

 " of the fea, is at prefent the higheft of our 

 " land." 



Page 76. " Thus we have fufficient r 

 " to believe, that, in knowing the conftruc- 

 of tii land in Europe, we know the 



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