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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



237 



In many cafes, the extent of llratified mate- 

 rials admitting of fuch an examination as this, 

 is much greater than has now been fuppofed, 



of hills on the 



range 



M. Pallas defcribes a 

 fouth-eaft fide of the peninfala of the Tauride, 

 which is cut down perpendicularly toward the 

 fea, and offers a complete fedion of the parallel 

 beds of a primary, or, as he calls it, an ancient 

 hmeftone, inclined at an angle of 45° to the hori- 



and this fedion continues for the length of 



The 



beds are fo regular, that M. Pallas compares 

 them to the leaves of a book*. The height of 

 thefe hills does not exceed 1200 feet, but the 

 real height of the uppermofi; ftratum above the 



61 miles 



zon 



3 



130 'verjisy or about 86 Englifh miles. 



86 X 



7 



uridermoft, is 86 x ^/t 

 nearly. 



If therefore we conceive that there is no Ihift 

 in all this gi-eat fyflem of firata, we in reality 

 are enabled, by means of it, to fee no lefs than 

 61 miles into the interior of the earth, nearly 



65th part of the radius of 



glob 



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that we can hardly fuppofe fo great a body 

 rata to have been raifed without fhifting, 

 at we muft diminifh this depth confider- 



» but were it reduced even to one-half, it 



will 



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See Nova A6la Acad. Petropol. torn, x. (179^?) 



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