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li conftitution of the land in every part of the 

 globe." 



Thefe, and other obfervations to the fame 

 purport, which occur in the Doctor's treatife, 

 prove, that the materials at the bottom of the 

 fea were firft confolidated, and were after- 

 wards thrown up by the expanfive power of 

 heat. There is no period at which an uni- 

 verfal convulfion could take place fo probably 

 as at the deluge. From this account we may 

 eafily conceive, how the great revolutions 

 have taken place upon the furface of the earth, 

 without fuppofing that there was another 

 world before this, or that another fhall fuc- 

 ceed it. 



There is very little improvement can be 

 made on this long tract of mountains, but to 

 ftudy the natural fituations. See National 

 Improvements, page 169. The mod that 

 can be done is by means of very large inclo- 

 fures ; underftockiiig ; draining all morafs 

 grounds in every part of the hill ; turning 

 the water acrofs the face of it, to run zig- 

 zag, which would not only deftroy the heath, 

 but likewife bring up a green fwaird ; liming 

 fom of the beft fpots, in order to deftroy the 



heath 



