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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



m 



ruins and frag 



f 



an anterior, without 



pointing at any original If we are th 



proceed in injimtum, 

 low him ; but. if h 



I fiiall 



to 



ft 



pretend to fol 



ps any wh 



he will 



find the fame argument equally to occui 



The argument here employed would certain- 



ly be 



puting abo 



five againft any one, who 

 ': the frft origin of thing 



deny that the calcareous is as ancient 



other of the fimpl 



in dif. 



Ihould 

 as any 



to d 



But this has nothing 



h 



s 



b 



th Dr Hutton's fpeculations, which 



juft faid, never extended 



origin of fubllances, but 



theM 



hanges ; fo that what he afferts 



onfined entirely 



S 



ocks. is 



more th 



that 



thofe which 



now fee have been formed from 



loofe materials, depofited at the bottom of thefea 



It was not therefo 



in 



evade Mr K 



lead us to b 



argument, as the preceding palTage would 



it he fuppofed the world 



, th 

 hab: 



to h 



fen from th 



ruin and wafle of an anterior world ; but it was 

 becaufe this feemed to him a concluiion which 

 necelTarily followed from the phenomena of 

 geology, and it was a conclufion that he had 

 deduced long before he heard of Mr Kirwan's 

 objedions to his fyftem. Inftead of an evafm, 



therefore, 



* 



Geol. Eilays, p. 13. 



