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CHAPTER IV. 



HISTOEY OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY— continued. 



VULCANISTS 



WERNER'S APPLICATION OF GEOLOGY TO THE ART OF MINING- EXCURSIVE 

 CHARACTER OF HIS LECTURES— ENTHUSIASM OF HIS PUPILS-HIS AUTHORITY- 

 HIS THEORETICAL ERRORS— DESMAREST's MAP AND DESCRIPTION OF AUVERGNE 



LN T D NEPTUNISTS — INTEMPERANCE 

 OF THE RIVAL SECTS — HUTTONS THEORY OF THE EARTH — HIS DISCOVERY 

 OF GRANITE VEINS - ORIGINALITY OF HIS VIEWS— WHY OPPOSED— PLAYFAm's 

 ILLUSTRATIONS— INFLUENCE OF VOLTAIRE S WRITINGS ON GEOLOGY— IMPU- 

 TATIONS CAST ON THE HUTTONIANS BY WILLIAMS, KIRWAN, AND DE LUC 

 SMITH'S MAP OF ENGLAND— GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 

 THE SCIENCES IN FRANCE 



-PROGRESS OF 



'HE 



NIC REMAINS. 



Wer 



The art 



mining had long been taught in 



rmany, and Hungai 



mmera 



a principal branch of instruction. 

 Werner was named, in 1775, 



Mines 



He 



his attention 



mer 



com 



minerals 



minerals 



together with the grouping of those rocks, their geograpnicai 

 distribution, and various relations. The phenomena ob- 

 served in the structure of the globe had hitherto served for 

 little else than to furnish interesting topics for philosophical 



Wer 



mining 



garded by a large class of men as an essential part of their 



time 



cultivated in Europe more 

 Werner's mind was at once 

 stored with miscellaneous knowl 



ardently and systematically- 

 imaginative and richly 



^e. He associated every 



r 



