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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



289 



them; and in th 



alike 



r 



s of Cerigo, is perfedl- 



both cafes, the fhells 



(1 in parts of the rock which are truly 



and that 



ftratified, but which have been, in fome d 

 affimilated to the bafaltes by the h 



b 



they h 



dured 



Spjfllan 



iat which 

 uld proba- 



bly have ufed exadly the fame terms which he 

 employs in fpeaking of Cerigo, if he had been 

 required to defcribe the petrified {hells at Port- 



fh 



54. In the inftances jufl mentioned, the petri 



real 



fied marine objeas are not found in th 

 whinftone ; but if they were found in it, when i 

 borders on ftratified rocks containing fuch ob 



jedls, the thine? would 



b 



at all furprifing 



nor furnifli any argument againft the igneous 



folid 



of the ft 



d matter wa 



d 



If a torrent 

 in among the ft 



f 



by a force which at the fame time broke up and 

 difordered thofe ftrata, nothing could be more 



natural, than th 



fragments of them 

 to them. 



th 



is matter ftiould contain 

 d of the objects peculiar 



< 



I 



one 



ft 



mentioned by Mr St 



this feems adually to have taken pi 

 Veronefe, a co 

 of limeftone ft 



I 



untry remarkabl 



for 



a m 



h volcanic or bafalt 



ng m 



h 



h 



(^ 



that he had feen 



mafs of ft 



T 



le objecTis, 

 aftures us, 



r 



'hich had 

 evidently 



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