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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



Th 



fyflem is imperfect 



makes no pe 



provifion for the confolidation of the ft 



hich, according 



fyft 



Nep 



f fi 



but of 



t ) 



i! 



f th 



e 



muft b:e afcribed to the adion 



ter. No account is given 

 of the fhells found in the 

 •ence between them and 



of the diffe 



lliells found loofe at the bottom of the Tea 



d no diftind 



IS 



d 



bet 



ft rati fled 



d 



llratified fubft 



But. with all th 



L azzaro Moro has certainly the merit of having 

 pc;rceived, that fome other power than that 

 w.hich depofited the ftrata, muft have been em- 

 ployed for their elevation, and that they have 

 endured the adion of a difturbing force. 



31. F 



this comparifon 



appea 



33r Huttori's theory is fufficiently diftindl 



from the th 



w h i c h 



app 



to it 



oft 



nearly, to merit, in the ftridlell fenfe, the appel- 

 lation of 72ew and original There are indeed 



fe 



inventions or difc 



recorded in the 



hiflory of fcience, to which nearer approaches 

 were not made before they were fully unfolded. 

 It therefore very vi^ell deferves to be diitinguifh- 

 ed by a particular name; and, if it behoves us 

 to follow the analogy obferved in the names of 

 the two great fyfterns. which at prefent divide 

 the oninions of geologills, we may join Mr Kir- 



wan in calling this the fLUTONic System. 



For 

 my 



