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is 



et, 



eni 



not 

 erii 



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tiot 



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 If' 



HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



105 



ever little addicted to 



geological fpeculations, 



r, that 



who does not immediately acknovvledge, 



the mountain was once continued quite acrofs 



d, if 



of 



fome 

 n the 



¥ 



the fpace in which the river now flows 

 he ventures to reafon concerning the 



mge, he afcribes it 

 nature, which has 



fo wonderfi 



ch 



great convulfion of nature, 

 mountain afunder, and opened a pafTage for the 

 waters. It is only the philofopher, who has 

 deeply meditated on the efFeas which aaion 

 long continued is able to produce, and on the 



limplicity of th 



which 



in all her 



perations, wh 



employs 



but the gradual 



fees in this nothing 



ng of a ftream, that 



flowed as high as the top of 



dge which 



now fo deeply interfeds, and has cut its courfe 



gh the rock, in the f^ime way, and almoft 



inftrument, by which the lapi- 

 dary divides a block of marble or granite. 



with th 



fame 



3- It 



th 



ghly interefting to trace up 



111 



m 



the aclion of caufes 



we are fam 



h 



hich 



to the produdion of efFed 



hich at firft feem to require the introdudion 



f unknov/n and 



dinary 



IS no lefs interefting to obfe 



3wers ; and i 

 how ikilfull 



has balanced the adion of all the min 



fes of waft 



to th 

 moft 



gene 



kabl 



e 



md I 



good 

 inft 



dered 



ni cond 



Of this we have 



a 



made for preferving the foil 



in the proviii 

 or the coat of i 



get able 



