HUTTONIAN THEORY. 





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ufe which they made of the fad convinced me, 

 that I ought only to wonder at their inconfeqaen- 

 tial reafoning. The Huttonian Theory is, in- 

 deed, the only one which poiTefTes the means of 

 reconciling the elevation of the ftrata with their 

 horizontal depoiition, and v/hich is entitled to 

 coniider ilratification, in whatever plane it may 

 be, as originally the work of the ocean. The 

 geologifts who attach themfelves exclafively to 

 the adlion of water, will never be able to ex- 

 tend the dominion of that element fo far as Dr 

 Hutton has done, by combining it with fire. 



225. But, though the Neptunian fyllera were 

 provided with engines, powerful enough to raifa 



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fluid at the time of their fo 



tion ; but the abfence of all appearance of a 

 horizontal difpofition, in any part of the vein, 

 amounts nearly to a demonilration, thit this 

 fluidity did not proceed from folution in a men- 

 ftruum. We muft therefore conceive the coats to 

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