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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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deftrudion of animal or vegetable bodies, limi- 

 lar, at leaft in feme refpeds, to thofe that now 

 occupy the furface of the earth. This conclu- 

 lion is not indeed proved of every individual 

 portion of rock, but it is demonftrated of many 

 and large parts, and thofe fcattered indifferently 

 through all the varieties of the ftrata ; and 

 therefore, from the rales of the llricleft reafon- 



we mull infer, that the whole is derived 

 from the fame origin *. 



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Thus far concerning the materials of the ftra- 

 ta ; and, as thefe were originally loofe and un- 

 connected, we muft next confider by what means 

 they were confolidated into flone. 



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2. Confolidation of the Strata, 



Though Dr Hutton has no where defi 



ned 



ning of th 



folidation. he 



has been fcrupulouily exad in ufing it confta 

 ly in the fame fenfe. He underftands by it, 

 merely that quality in a hard body by which 

 parts cohere together, but alio t! 

 fills up the fpace comprehended 



at by which it 



Wiih'io its fur- 



face, being to fenfe without porofity, and 

 pervious to air and moifture. 



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Now, 



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