HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



91 



SECTION III. 



X 



OF THE PHENOMENA COMMON TO STRATIFIED 



AND UNSTRATIFIED BODIES. 



9 



HE feries of changes which foffil bodies 

 are deftined to undergo, does not ceafe 



1 ; it 



ith their elevation above the level of the fc 



diredion, and from th( 

 iifed up to the furface 



aiTumes, hov/ever, a new 



moment that they are r 



is conftantly exerted ir 



under the dominion of tl 



is now deftroyed which w^as acquired 



bowels of the earth : and as the bottom of the 



ducing them 



ag; 

 foiid 



the 



fea is the g 



laboratory, where loofe raate- 



mineraUzed and formed into ft 



ofph 



IS 



the 



g 



here ft on 



the 

 de- 



compofed, and again refolved into earth 



Th 



decompofition of all mineral fubftances 



expofed to the air, is continual, and 

 about by a multitude of agents, both 



brought 

 :lieraical 



and mechanical, of which fome are known to us, 

 and many, no doubt, remain to be difcovered. A- 

 mong the various aeriform fluid which compofe 



our 



mofpl 



one is already diftinguiflied 



neral decomDolitio 



the grand principle of mineral 



the others are not inadive, and to them we muft 



G 



add: 



