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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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^'^of,: top of the Aiguille dii Midi^ and other fimilar 



plates, decrealing gradually in height, compofe 

 its declivity to the foiith *." 



2^6. Sauflure was fo ftrongly imprefled with the 



appearances of what he accounted regular ilra- 



;ation, fuch as water only can produce, and 



fi 



fuch as mufl have been in the beginning 1 

 zontal, that, placed as he now w^as, on or 

 the higheil points of the earth's furface, he f 



of 



d the bold 



ception 



the fu 



on 



hich he w^as {landing had been once b 



r 



d 



the furface, to the depth at leaft of 



half the diameter of the mountain, and h 

 tally diftant from its prefent place by a 1 

 lefs than the whole height of the mountai 



g 



T 



d 



hich 



th 



pofe that mountain 





having been raifed by fome eno: 

 from their horizontal poiition. and 



power 



d 



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they were brought into the vertical 



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notion, 

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hich fu 



fo well 



of vertical il 



really compofed 



d which d 



cred 



to 



the extent of SauiTure's views, it is wonder 



fill th 



he did not fee the overthrow of 



geological fyftem he had adopted, which is pro- 

 vided with no means whatfoever of explaining 

 thefe great effeds. 



Such, 



* Voyages aux Alpes, tom.iv. § ipp^j, 



