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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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planes nearly parallel to one another, has been 

 proved at § 38. 



2. If there 

 eilabliflied abc 



IS 



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truth in' the principles 

 even the ftrata themfelves 

 have not been confolidated without the adion 

 of fire. By Dolomieu's fyftem, therefore, the 

 confolidation of the ftrata which cover the ba- 

 fakes is not accounted for. 

 3. There are no means furniflied by the 



hypothelis of fub 



the bafalt, and the ftrata wh 



the level of the fea. If it is faid that 

 of the fea have b 



for bringing 

 ■ it, above 



are all incurred ihi 

 If it is faid. that th 



drained' off, the objedic 

 have been ftated at § 37 



ks themfelves 1: 



a 



b 



elevated by a force, impelling them upward 

 fay^ that 



;r means of expl 



th 



ft 



nee 



f fuch a fo 



h 



admitted, furnifti 



th 



mg the whole phenomenon, namely, that of the 

 injeclion of melted matter among the ftrata, the 

 fame that is ufed in the Huttonian Theory. 



4. The phenomena of balfaltic 



the leaft explained by the hypothefis of fub 



vems are not 



marine volcanoes. 



if th 



That hypothefts, the 



even 



foregoing objedions were removed, d 



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not 



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mieu adopts this fuppofition ; he thinks, 



pre 



mull have been form 



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