ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



It leafl in 



par 



the Alps, the Vofg 



d going 

 5. the 



round by the eai| 

 Hartz, the Highland 



s 



and Weilern Iflands of Scotland, the hilly 

 tries of Cumberland. Wales and Cornwall, 



zone of primitive mountains, on th 

 iition of the Neptunifls, muft have ri 



e 



. Th 

 fuppi 



IS 



fen 



the form of ifland 



up 



g 



ginaiiy covered the earth, forming a kind of 

 circular Archipelago, including in its bofom 



V 



'^e hundred 



a fea, which was from fe\ 



to fi 



m 



les in diameter. Over the whole of this 

 lextent, the detritus of the above mountains muft 

 have been carried, in order to form the flat in- 

 terjacent countries which are now expofed to our 



view. 



Such then, even on their own fappofi- 

 tion, is the extent to which the Neptunills mull 

 admit that the materials of the primeval moun- 

 tains were tranfported by the ocean. 



158. This tranfportation of materials, may 

 not be fo great as that which is involved in Dr 

 Hutton's theory, but is fuch as fhould make the 

 enemies of his fyftzm confider, how nearly the 



agre 



with 



principles they mujl introduce, 

 thofe that they would rejed:. This is one fad 

 out of many, which fhews, that there is at 

 prefent a much nearer 



agreement 



between 



the fyftems of geology, than between their au- 



thors. 



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