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and Ant. Lazaro Moro 3 ; which, in- a hypo- 

 thetical manner, by earthquakes, volcanos, 

 ai d the a&ion of the Tea, explain, or might 

 explain, phenomena .in the furface of 

 the earth, that hitherto riad been fo many 

 ftumbling-fiones in other orological fyfteras, 

 Eftablilhei 1 . upon facts, and evidenced by ex- 

 perience and hift-pry, theie are undoubtedly 

 in a higher fcale than thofe of Whiflon, 

 Burnet, Woodward, and Maillet, in which, 

 facts are ibppofed, and powers and errors 

 aicribed to Nature, with which Nature ap- 

 pears to be unacquainted. Indeed, they 

 are deficient in many points, and very far 

 from having received from the hands of their 

 authors that latitude and evidence they arc 

 capable of, as well in refpect of hiftorical 

 truth, as of the nature .and fituation of fof- 

 fils and mineral bodies. This, I am perfuaded, 

 frauds clearly proved in my Syftem of 

 the Earth ; which, for the honour of Hooke* 

 and the improvement of fcience,was published 

 at Amfterdam in 1763. It will farther 

 evidently appear, from an improved edition 



Sopraacroftacei; Vcn. 1740. 



which 



