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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



% 



Geneva, called Pierre de Go 



about ten feet 



height, with a horizontal fedtion of fifteen by 



*. Another block not far from it, and 



twenty 

 nearly 



f 



e 



fattl 



fi 



fchiftiis attached 



, has fome remains of 

 Thefe flones very much 



femble thofe which h 



fall 



fro 



the 



Aiguilles, in the valley of Chamoimy. The di- 

 fiance from their prefent fituation to thofe Ai- 

 guilles is about thirty Englifli miles, with many 

 mountains and valleys at prefent interpofed. 

 By whatever means, therefore, thefe blocks were 



tranfported, their motion muft have been o^ 

 furface of much more uniform declivity thai 

 prefent. If the furface was without great 



general declivity about 



computed, the 



quaj 

 foot 



in 



and its 

 rrty, as 



one 



dy 



ciers, in the firfl place, and the torrents after 



ward 



may have 

 f thefe rocks 



ferved for th 



rp 



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[. Again, in the narrow vale or glen which 

 feparates the Greatfrom the Little Saleve, the ftra- 

 ta are all calcareous, but a great number of loofe 

 blocks of granite and primary fchillus are fcatter- 



d over the furfa 



A block of the fo 



the lower end of the valley, is about the f}ze of 



Two other large blocks of the 



fa 



bic feet, 

 nd of ft 



ft on a bafe of h 



limeftone, 



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Voyages aux Alpes, t;om, i. § 308. 



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