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HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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Oceans, which the induflry of future navigators 

 may difcover. The whole appears to be con- 

 neded with the trade-winds, the figure of our 

 continents, the temperature of the feas them- 

 felves, and perhaps with fome inequalities in the 

 ilrudture of the globe. The difturbance pro- 

 duced by thefe caufes in the equilibrium of the 

 fea, probably reaches to the very bottom of it, 

 and gives rife to thofe counter currents, which 



have fometimes been difcovered at great depths 

 under the furface *. 



The great tranfportation of materials that 

 mult refult "from the adion of thefe combi- 

 ned currents is obvious, and ferves not a little 

 to diminifh our wonder, at finding the produc- 

 tions of one climate fo frequently included 



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has been uniform 



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that have refilled the general movement. The 

 rivers and the rocks, the feas and the continents, 

 have been changed in all their parts ; but the 



hich diredl thofe changes, and th 



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* Hiftoire Naturelle de BufFou, fupplement, torn, ix, 

 ^.479. 8vo. 



