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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



primordial to th 



in 



quefl 



d confi 



de 



rs 



m as neithet llratified nor formed by 



water "*. 



I 



his fnbfequent writings, h 



he admits their formation from aqueous depofi 

 tion, as the Neptunifts do in general, but hold 

 them to be more ancient than organized bodies. 

 150. PiNi, profeflbr of natural hiftory at Mi 



IS denied the ftratification of 



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h 



P 



mountains, in a memoir on the mineralogy of 

 St Gothard, and in another on the revolutions 



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F 



oi: the globe -[\ His reafonings are oppofed by 

 Saussure J, and are certainly, in many refpeds, 

 very open to attack. They proceed on a com- 

 parifon between the divifion of rocks, by what 

 is called the planes of their ftratification, and 

 their diviHon by tranfverfe fiffures ; two things, 

 which he thinks fo much alike, that they ought 

 not to be referred to different caufes ; and, as 

 the one cannot be regarded as the effect of aque- 

 ous depofition, fo neither ihould the other. This 

 is a very fallacious argument, becaufe it con- 

 founds two things that are elTentially different; 



and. 



* Lettres Phyf. fur rHlftoire de la Terre, torn, ii- 



p. 2C6. 



+ Memoria fulle Rivoluzione del Globo Terreitre; 

 Memorie della Societa Italiana, torn. v. p. 222, &c. 



X Voyages aux Alpes, torn. iv. § 1881? 



