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and the affumption of a determinate fpecies of 

 curvature, under circumftances the moft diflimi- 

 lar y all thefe appearances were to be connected 

 with one another, and with the confolidation of 

 the ftrata, and this is done by the twofold hypo- 

 tbefis, of aqueous depofition, and the a6lion of fub- 

 terraneous heat. When thefe circumftances are 

 fairly conGdered, andw^ien the fhifts which other 

 fyftems are put to on this occallon are remem- 

 bered, I think it will he granted, that few 

 attempts at generalization have been more fuc- 

 eefsful, than that which is here made by the 

 Huttonian Theory. 



210. To the fa 6c of the elevation of the ftra 



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ta, the ftudy of geology is much indebted. The 

 ftratified form of a- great proportion of the 

 earth's furface, gives to minerals that organiza- 

 tion and regularity, which makes their difpoii 

 tion an obje6l of fcience, and their inclined po- 

 fition fervcs to bring that organization into view, 

 from far greater depths than we can ever reach 

 by artificial excavations. If, for inftance, the ter~ 



mination of ftrata, that make with the horizon 



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