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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



fent poiition an inftant, if the cement whicli 



unites them were to become foft 



and there 



S 



fore they certainly had not that pofition at the 



time when 

 remark ha 



lis cement was adually foft. 

 been made by mineralogill 



This 

 who 



were not led to it by any fyft 



The judicious 



and indefatigable obferver of the Alps, defcri- 

 bing the pudding-flone of Valorfine, near the 



fources of th 



A 



tells us, that he 



was 



aftonifhed to find it in bed 





a fituation in \ 

 have been formed 



hich it 



almoft vertical, 

 Id not poffibly 



*t 



'* That particles,'* he adds 

 of extreme tenuity, fufpended in a fluid 



mig 



become 



gglutinated 



d form verti- 

 ' conceived : 



cal beds, is a thing that may be cor 



but that pieces of Hone, of feveral pounds weight 



Ihould have refted on the fide of 



1 



wall, till they 



perpend 



cement 



d 



were enveloped in a ftony 

 d into one mafs, is a fuppofi- 

 tion impoffible and abfurd. It fhould be con- 

 fidered, therefore, as a thing demonfiirated, that 

 this pudding-fi:one was formed in a horizontal 



pofition, 

 its indu 



or one 



ly fuch, and elevated after 



We know 



t( 



the force by which 



he continues, 



ele 



h 



b 



efFefted ; but it is an important fi:ep among th 



prodig 



of vertical beds th 



be met with in the Alp 



to 



found fo 



that 



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