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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



37* 



Gur coafts may be compared to one of thofe 

 curves, which are fometimes treated of in the 

 higher geometry, where the ordinates are func- 

 tions, not only of their abfciflae, but alfo of the 

 time elapfed fince a certain epocha. The form of 

 the curve at that epocha, or when the time began 

 to flow, correfponds to the original form of the 

 fea-coaft, on its emerging from the ocean, and 

 before the powers of wafting and decay had be- 

 gun to adl upon it. To fpeak ftridly, the ori- 

 ginal figure, in both cafes, influences all the fub- 



feq 



but the farther removed from iti in 



point of time, the lefs is that infl 



fo that 



1 



phyfical queftions, and for the purpofe of fuch 



approxima 

 knowled 



'6 



th 



as fuit the imperfedlion of our 

 confideration of the original 



figure may be wholly left 



Note xvii. 



105. 



Remains of Decompofed Rocks 



b"^ 



4t 



..1,,, 



jre 



(1.25 



dlj t" 



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it 



f; 



laritif' 

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333. The plain of Crau was the Campus La 



pideus of the ancients 



and, as mythology al 



ways feeks to conned: itfelf with the extraordi- 

 nary fads in natural hiftory, it was faid to be 

 the fpot where Hercules, fighting with the fons 



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of 



