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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



the globe. 



Whether fuch a travelling of ftony 



bodies makes a. part of the fyflem now aduallj 



carrying on, will be confidered in another 

 place 



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Note vi. § 15. 



Mr Kir wail's notion of precipitation 



161. The Neptunift who has provided the 



means of diflblving the materials of the llrata, 



has only performed half his work, and muil find 



it a talk of equal difficulty to force this 



ful menilruum to part with its folutii 

 Kirwan. 



pow 



lty,h 



aware in fome degree of th 



Mr 

 diffi- 



gu 



ay 



fubflances 



attempted to obviate it in a very fin- 

 Firft, he afcribes the folution of all 



in water, or, in what he calls the 

 chaotic fluid, to their being finely pulverifed, 

 or created in a ftate of the moft minute divifion. 

 Next, as to the depofition, the folvent being, as 

 he acknowledges, very infufficient in quantity, 

 the precipitation took place, (he fays), on that 

 account the more rapidly. 



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If he means by this to fay, that a precipitation 

 without folution would take place the fooner 

 the more inadequate the menflruum v/as to dif- 



folve the whole, the propofition may be true ; 



but 



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* Sec Note ^i^ix. 



