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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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below upwards, they are precifely of the kind 

 which the infiltration of water could not pro- 

 dace, even were that fluid capable of dilTolving 

 the fubftances which the vein confills of. From 



th 



fo 



bed 



f 



face of the 

 orrent that 



ntain, and from the 

 rfeds it very deeply. 



Dr Hutton brought a block of fchiftus, of feve- 

 ral hundredweight^ curioufly penetrated by gra- 



ng in them many infulated 



nite veins. 



nclud 



fragments of the fchifl 

 ■from this, point, 

 the granite ; 



weft fide of 

 bottom of a 



the common fedi 



d fch 



defcend 



d 



of 

 the 



mou 



d is vifible at the 



deep glen, (Glen-Rofa), which 



taches Goatfield from th 



h 



farth 



the 



fl: 



The juncl 



ces in the bed of the 

 bottom of this glen ; ai 



bits, in a great 



or 



laid bare at feveral pla- 

 river which runs in the 



all of them exhi- 



L 



■ee, the appearan- 



m 



d 



fs deg 



f difl;urbance and violence which h 



companied the Jnje6l 

 Many circumftances 1 



f th 



granite veins. 



t) 



eologift 



t) 



d 



der this fpot interefliing 



f th 



among oth 



an 



fee 



granite, a little ab 



its jund 



with the fchiftas, by a dike or vein of very com 

 pad whinfi:one. 



y 



TT^ 



I 



fa 



pofite, or 



of jund 



IS 



found 



on the 



th-eaft, fide of the mountain, 



vi^here 



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