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are things 



gions ; a heat which has fubdued the moll re- 

 fractory rocks, and has melted beds of marble 

 ^hd quartz ; an expanlive force, which has fold* 

 ed up, or broken the Itrata, and raifed whole 

 continents from the bottom of the lea ; thefe 



with which, however certainly they 

 may be proved, the mind cannot foon be fami- 

 liarifed. The change and movement alfo, which 

 this theory afcribes to all that the fenfes declare 



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to be moil: unalterable, raife up againft it the 

 fame prejudices which formerly oppofed the be- 

 lief in the true fyftem of the world ; and it af- 

 fords a curious proof, how little fuch preju- 

 dices are fubjed to vary, that as Aristar- 



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CHUB, an ancient follower of that fyftem, was 

 charged with impiety forjnoving the everlafting 

 Vesta from her place, tb" Br Hutton, nearly en 

 the fame ground, has been fubjeded to the very 



length of time 



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