%ia 



ILLUSTRATIO^JS OF THE 



containing fragments fometimes worn 

 fometimes angular, of the primary rock. 



This laft is a plienomenon extremely genera] 

 and all our fubfequent information confirms D 



"^ 



Hutton's anticipations concerning 



It 



be 



very remarkable," he fays, " if fimilar ap 



pearances, (fuch as thofe of the brecc 



defcri 



bed by Voight), are always found upon the junc- 

 tion of the Alpine with the level countries*." 

 SaulTure, in a part of his work, not publiflied when 

 Br Hutton wrote this paffage, has attefted the ge- 



lity of the fad with refped to the whole 



Alp 



from th 



Ty 



to the Med 



it 



Un fait que I'on obferve fans aucune excep- 

 m, ce font les amas de debris, fous la forme de 



blocs, 

 fable, 

 ou des 



de breches, de poudingues, de gres, de 



)U amonceies, et formant des montagnes, 



coUines, difperfee fur le bord exterieur, 



ou meme dans les plains qui bordent la chaine 



des Alpes f." 



This paffage is perfedly decillve as to the ge- 

 nerality of the fad, that the Alps, from the Ty- 

 rol to the Mediterranean, are bordered all round 

 by pudding-ftones or breccias. 



•eccias. At the fame 

 time, it is necelTary to remark, that M. SaulTure, 

 by enumerating loofe blocks and fand, along with 

 pudding- ilones, breccias and grit, confounds to- 

 gether things which are extremely different, and 



which 



* Theory of the Earth, vol. i. p. 44S. 

 t Voyages aux Alpes, tom. iv. § 2330. 



