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ward configuration, but not fchiftofe- in its 

 texture. On this point mineralogifts do not 

 perfedly agree : .Dr Hutton did not think that 

 this was a ftate in which granite ever appears. 

 When not fchiftofe in its ftrudure, he fuppofed 

 it to be unllratified altogether; and he con- 

 fidered it as a body which, like whinftone, 

 was ori^^inally in a ftate of igneous fufion, and. 



in 



that condition, inje<51ed among the fl:ra- 

 ta. The fchool of Werner, on the other hand, 

 maintain, that granite, if not always, is general- 



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Iv ilratified, and difpofed in beds, fometimes ho- 

 Tizontal, though more frequently vertical, or 



highly inclined. 



1 forming an opinion where there are great 



In 

 author: 



chiefly 



efteem 



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ppoiite fides, a m 



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bfervat 



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ft truft 

 ught to 



himfelf for 

 conclufion. 



f thefe lead to 



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incline me to difter 



from Dr Hutton, on the one hand, ; 

 the Neptunifts on the other, as they 



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me, that granite does fo 



harafter of gneifs 



11 ftrata where it hai 

 d. at the fame time 



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me to fufped, that th 



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afcribed by the Neptunifts to the granite 

 tains, is, in many inftances, 



eith 



an 



llufio 



leaft fomething very different from what 



ftones 



nted ftratificat 



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