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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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thing, without example, it involves in it an ab» 

 furdity, which becomes evident the moment the 

 quedion is aflced. What occupied the place of 

 the coal-bed before the tranfudation from the 

 upper part of the mountain ? Has the liquid 

 coal, as it percolated through the upper ftrata 

 expelled any fubftance from the place it now 

 occupies ? or has it been powerful enough to 

 raife up, or to float, as it were, the upper part 

 of the mountain ? 



The fituation of this bed of coal is not Angu- 

 lar, and its formation is eafily explained on Dr 

 Hutton's theory. It is part of a llratum of coal, 

 which has been depofited, like all others, at th& 

 bottom of the fea ; from whence certain caufes, 

 of very general operation, have raifed it up, to- 



geth 



ith the attending ft 



thefe ft 



have fince been all cut down, and worn away 



by the operations of the furface 



d the moun 



lin, with the coal ftratum in the middle of it, is 

 part of them which has been left behind. There 



1 ftiould be 

 a mountain. 



is no wonder, that a coal ft 



found 



nating with other 



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any more than in the bowels of th 

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llratum of coal, which is defcribed bv H 



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