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407 



fome of the greateft and deepeft valleys 



face of the earth, fuch as 



juft mentioned 



ft fide of M 



Blanc, are thus fhewn 



to be the work of the daily wafting of the fur- 

 face, what other inequalities can be great enough 



lire the interpofition of a more powerful 

 If a diFnus vindice nodus does not exift 



to req 

 caufe i 



here, in what part of the 



atural hiftory of the 



earth is it likely to be found ? 



363. The large maffes of rock fo often met with 

 at a diftance from their original place, are one of 

 the arguments ufed for the debacle. 



It has. h 



ever, been fhewn, that, fuppofing a form of the 

 earth's furface confiderably different from the 

 prefent, efpecially, fuppofing the abfence of the 

 valleys which the rivers have gradually cut out, 

 the tranfportation of fuch ftones is not impoffi- 



ble 



even by fuch powers as nature employs a 

 prefent. Now% without the fuppofition that th 



furface was 

 fent inequal 



did not 



)us, and that its pre- 

 exifl, no force of tor- 

 locity and magnitude 

 may have been, could have produced this tranf- 



rents, 



hatev 



portat 



No force of water could raife a ft 



like the pierre de goiitte from the bottom of 



C c 4 



ey 



to be lefs than i8c fathoms. According to this hypo- 

 thefis, it may, at no very diftant period, have been a 

 part of the bottom of the fea, 



