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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



239 



* 



Note xiii. § 53, 



Metallic Veins. 



211. The large fpecimens of native iron found 

 in Siberia and Peru, mentioned above, § 51., 

 are among the mofl curious fad:s in the natural 



L 



hiftory of metals. I.t has been doubted, how> 

 ever, by fome, whether they really belong to 



m 



natural hiftory, or are not rather to be account- 

 ed artificial productions. If they had been 

 found in the heart of rocks, or in the midil of 

 metallic veins, no doubt of this fort could poffi- 

 bly have been entertained ; but, as they lie 

 quite on the Turface, in the middle of flat coun- 

 tries, and at a diftance from any known vein of 

 metal, the conjefture that they may be artificial> 

 and the remains of the iron founderies of an- 

 cient and unknown nations, is at fir ft fight not 



tirely deftitute of probab 



This proba 



bility, how 



will appear to be the lefs, th 



rs 



more 



fully the fp 



are examined 



Th 



e 



metal is too perfed, and the maffi 



too 



arge, to have been melted in the furn 



have b 



fported 



th 



hinery, of 



rude people. The fpecimen in South A 



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