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there Is no appearance of the adion of tbat fta- 

 tical law which has direded the arrangement 

 of the other flrata, and which tends to make the 

 plane of every ftratiim depolited by water per- 



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f the veins has therefore been perform 



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If, as the Neptunifts maintain, the : 

 the veins were depofited by v/ater, in the moft 

 perfed tranquillity, it is wonderful that We do 

 not find thofe materials difpofed in horizontal 

 layers, acrofs the vein, inflead of being parallel 

 to its fides ; and it feeras very unaccountable, 

 that the common fi:rata, depofited as w^e are told 

 while the water was in a ftate of great agit:/- 

 tion, have fo rigorouily obeyed the laws of hy- 

 droftatics, (§ 38.), and acquired a parallelifm in 



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the planes of their fi:ratification, which ap- 

 proaches fo often to geometrical precifion ; while 

 the materials of the veins, in circumftances fo 

 much more favourable for doing the fame, have 

 done nearly the reverfe, and taken a pofition, 

 often at right angles to that which hydrofl:atical 

 principles require. This is a paradox which 



the ixenrnnian 



Neptunian fyftem has created, and which 

 therefore it is not very likely to refolve. 



224. Mere words fliould have little power to 

 miilead, in a fcience which treats of fenfible ob- 



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