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REMARKS ON THE 



DiMiNU- habitations of tlie natives. It appears therefore evidently 



"ther 



TION OF 

 THE SEA 



that the water had receded,, or that thefe objedts had been raifed 

 above water: but what might be the can fe of either, I will not 



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pretend to decide. It might be ovvdng to the receffion of the fea 



and its gradual" yearly diminution 



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an 



thquake 



and 



a 



fubterraneous fire, are moil likely to have raifed thefe lithophy 



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and parts of the neighbouring ifle above water. 



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The THEORY of the FORMATION of ISLES. 



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FORMA- 

 TION OF 

 ISLES. 



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AVIN-G thus offered a few remarks on the various changes of 

 thofe parts of the globe, which we vifited during our circum- 

 navigation, I might here leave the fubjedl, wxre it not in fome : 

 meafure neceffary, to add a few obfervations, which may ferve to. 

 eflabliili a theory for the formation of the tropical ifles in the. 



South-Sea, 

 ■ When we firfl came within the tropics in i yy 



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parti 



cularly to ftudy the conflitution and nature of the tropical ifles.. 



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When we vifited them again in 1774, I added many more obferva- 

 tions ; and, after all, I found the nature of thefe ifles to be jufl 

 fuch as I reprefented them in the fedtion, where I defcribed the 



lands we had fallen in with, 



We 



