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f6ns are repeated feveral times, and often in coQ'- 



ry dired: 



the layers are fometiraes bro 



ken, where their curvature is greateft *. 



On the lide of the fame lake, is another 

 ftance of bent ftrata, 

 the beds are horizontal in th 



in a mountain, of which 



5 lower part, but 

 bent at one end upwards, in the form of the 



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The horizontal part is of great 



Montmelian 



and the rock is alfo calcareous f. 



The Mo7itagne de la Tuile^ near 

 receives its name from the beds of rock being 

 incur vated in form of a tyle %. Among fecon- 

 dary mountains, the fame kind of phenomena are 

 obferved, though lefs frequently, and with lefs 



variety of inflex 



The chain of J 



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condary, and the beds which compofe i 

 limeftone, or of grit : they are bent in 

 manner, that in a tranfverfe fedion of the moun- 

 tain, each layer would have the figure of a pa- 

 rabola \ , 



200. The Pyrenees furnifh abundance of phe- 

 nomena of the fame kind, as we learn from the 

 EJfui fur la Mineralogie des Pyrenees, The 



calcareous 



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* Voyages aux Alpes, torn. iv. § 1935. 



f Ihid. § 1937. 



X Ihid, vol. ill. § n 8 2, and plate i, 

 § Ibid. torn. I. § 334. 



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