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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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205. Th 



primaiy fir 



fedion with the hori 



flancy of the direaion of the 



ftimated by their inter- 

 plane, is often very 



h 



remarkable. Their elevation and fl 



exure are 



ges, fo as to 



fubjed to great and fudden chai 

 pafs not only from greater to lefs, but from 



oppofite, within a fmall diftai 



fid 



th 



the 



horizontal line in wh 



5 



iifually preferves the fame bearing to 

 extent. The general direction of th 



thty fir etch 



a 



g 



ftrata, i 



E. N. E 



th 



fouth part of Scotland 



primary 



is from 



to W. S. W 

 f thofe v/hich 



; and the fame is nearly 

 ompofe the ridge of the 

 :h, and the hills of Cum- 



Grampians on the nor 



berland and Weilmoreland 



though between the fchiftiis of thefe three trad 



rd th 



fouth 



there" 



IS no communication at the furface 



one next it 



being entirely feparated from the 



by the interpofition of fecondary ftrata. I hav 



ady 



ntioned the obfe 



of Lord 



Webb Seymour and myfelf, at the foot of Ing 

 borough ; ar 



d it 



vertical fchiil 



app 

 on ^ 



from them, that th 



hich 



fl 



though it fiill preferves an eaflern and weflern 



diredi 



more 



1, V 



rth 



aries feveral points from that of 



fl 



The flrata of Wal 



more to the fira-mentioned diredion. and 



thofe of Devonfhire and Cornwall 

 very nearly. In 



e with it 



all thi 



P 



It 



be eafily 



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