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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



177 



i^p. To thefe fa61s, 



demonflrating tne great 



the 



tranfportation of foffils in fome former condi- 



tions of th 



glob 



we 



ay 



add anoth 



re- 



cognifed bj all mineralogifts. Th 



uvia^ contained 



imeft 



d marbl 



are 



often known to belong to feas, extremely re 



mote fr 

 found. 



I 



th 

 th 



countries wh 



they 



(tones of Fr 



chalk-beds of England 



now 

 the 



proportion of the 



petrifadions belong to the tropical feas, and ap- 

 pear to have been brought from the vicinity of 



the equa 

 ihelis fo 



I 



hether the foreig 



Buffon obfervesi that of the fothi 



ttn difputed. 



it h 



b 



*- 



merous th 



the nativ( 



that thej 

 bear a c 



d, though he is himfelf of 



not, it is 



d 



they muft 



liderable proportion to the wh 



Ve 



In the petrifadions of Monte Bolca, near 

 rona, where the impreffions of iifh are preferved 

 between the lamina? of a calcareous fchillus, one 

 hundred and five different fpecies have been enu- 

 merated, of which thirty-nine are from the Aliatic 

 feas, three from the African, eighteen from thofe 

 of South, and eleven from thofe of North Am.e- 



Simi 



obfer 



h 



been mad 



on the marine plants, and the impreilions of ve- 

 getables, found in rocks, in different parts of 



M 



Eurooe, 



1- 



* BufFon, Theorie de la Terre, art. 8. 



t Sauffure, Voyages aux Alpes, torn, iii. § 153J. 



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