V 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



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verthelefs, an excellent obferver, an^ 



{killed in experimental inquiries 



It 



ill 



hardly be believed that he who writes the hifto- 



ry of the earth before the formation of the fun, 



is verfed in the principles of indudive reafoning ; 



and that he has added much to the ftock of geo- 



obferved accurately 



logical knowledge, having 



d defer ibed 



ith g 



perfpicuity and 



dour. His Lettres Phyjiques are full of valuable 

 and juft obfervations, though accompanied with 

 reafonings that do not feem always entitled to the 



fame 

 ceeded 



and hj 



praife 



and in another work he has fu 



here many men of genius had fail 



mad 



iiderable improvements 



a 



branch of the mathematics, without borrowing 

 almoft any affiftance from the principles of that 



fcience *. 



421. Some of th 



fame obfervat 



ppiy 



Mr K 



His Geological Effays have alfo for 



their objed to explain the firft origin of things 

 and to fay that he has not fucceeded, in 



tem 



where no m 



an at^ 



ever can fucceed, im 



his work 



plies no reproach on the execution of 

 whatever it may do on the 



1 



nd 



; defig 

 no criterion by which the 



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f 



it can be eftimated 



hat w^ould in any oth 



P 



r 



e be a blemifh, may be here deferving of 

 fe ; and if the work is full of confufion and 



perplexity 



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