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HUTTONIAN THEORY, 



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render the real figure of the pi 



to the ftatical. At the fame time the Jiatical fi- 

 gure is changed, as explained above * fo that the 



two fig 



mutually approach, and the lim 



mate fig 



to 



hich they tend 



hich the ocean might be diffufed 



one. 

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where to the fame depth, for then the caufes o 

 change would entirely ceafe. But this figure i 

 no other tham the fpheroid of equilibrium, which 



therefore, is th 



ffea 



hich the wafte and 



confolidation of the land y^^ould 



fiarily pro 



duce, if the procefs were continued indefinitely 



without interrupt 



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In this, as in many othe 



when a body is fubjedl to the ad 



caufes by which its form 



gradually chan 



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ged, the figure befl: adapted to refill thofe 



ges, is the figure which the changes themfelves 



ultimately produce, 



Alfo, whatever be the irregularities df denfi- 

 ty, the tendency to a change of figure will not 

 ceafe till the body is moulded into that particu- 

 lar fpheroid which admits of being covered with 

 water every where to the fame depth *. 



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* In the fame mariner as a tranfitlon is thus made from 

 an irregular figure to a fpheroid of equilibrium, fo, if the 



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