le 



£t 





'CCli 



) 



3iigt: 



Tit 

 coil' 

 feet: 



ni.^ 



M 



ii 



HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



163 



and, inftead of inquiring about a matter of fad: 

 inquires about its caufe. The truth is, that tht 



difp 



has 



granite from the fchift 

 involving both under th 



fen from not dillinguiihing the 



mountains, 

 3 name of 



d from 



prim 



M. Pini feems to be in the right, when he hold 

 the granite of St Gothard to be unftratified ; 

 it is without any good reafon, that he would 



but 



tend the fame 

 mountain. C 



fion to the fchiftus of 



iARPENTiER, and SaulTure, in hh 

 laft two volumes, contend even for the llratifica- 

 tion of granite *. 



As the confent, if not univerfal, is very gene- 

 ral for the llratification of the primary fchiftus, 

 and the fad itfelf abundantly obvious, in almoit 



2s I have ever met with, I have 



the inllan 



Boi confidered it as neceflary 

 any argument on this fubjecl. 



here into 



'NojE IV. 



8 



Primary Jlrata not primitive. 



151- An account of the fads referred 



to 



may be found in Button's Theorv, vol. i. 



L2 



P- Z'i'^, 



* 



See Note xv. on Granite. 



