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di 



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lafalts 



It 





lies 



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'e oiii 



It; 



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e cac 





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^n flfis: 



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ope tot 





fi 



Si ff'' 

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eotf 



J 



huttonian theory* 



260 



piais Jigurez-'vouSf Monjteitr, que dans les en- 

 droits les plus large s, elle n^a tout-au-plus qu'en- 



4 



r 



n)iron 12 on 15 pieds ; elle rCen a que 3 oz/ 4 dans 

 certaines parties^,'''* 



/This narrow dream is to be traced acrofs the 

 flrata for more than a league and a half; an 

 the whole appeared to Faujas fo marvellous, that 

 he fays he almoll doubted the teftimony of his 



fenfes. He would have done much better, how- 

 ever, to have doubted the conclufions of his 

 theory ; for it was by them that the phenomena 

 before him were rendered fo mylterious and in- 

 credible. While he continued to regard what 

 is defcribed above as a ftream of melted lava, 

 which had defcended from the top of one moun- 

 tain, and climbed up the fides of the oppoiite, 

 like water in a conduit pipe, piercing occafion- 

 ally through vail bodies of foiid rock, it is no 

 wonder that he confidered as marvellous what is 

 indeed phylically irapoflible. Had his belief in 

 5 volcanic theory permitted hira to fee in ail 



th 



fuperficial current, but one of 



finite depth, he 



Id h 



beheld th 



inde- 

 objedl 



divelted, no 

 ing, but of 



f what was curious and interell 



h 



was 



redible or abfurd 



d 



duced to th 



la m e 



lafs 



f thing 



with mineral veins. That it belongs really to 



+ 



this clafs, and is no more than a vein or dike 



of 



* Volcains Eteints du Vivarais, p. 32^^ S&c 



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