HUTTONIAN THEORY. 



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Vered with water ; and be at the fame time fub- 



jecl to wafte above the furface of the fea, and 

 reconfolidation under it, fias a tendency to ac- 

 quire, in time, the fame figure that it would have 

 acquired had it beeri entirely fluid. 



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over the land, where they would be condenfed and preci- 

 pitated in rain. Thus, all the agents of dellruffion would 

 be let loofe on the two great circumpolar continents ; 

 rivers would be formed ; the land -vvouid become deeply 

 interfeded by ravines j thofe ravines would gradually 



m 



would be ih 

 a fuperfxcies 



fmooth 



and from 

 the fame 



m ■ 



inequalities would be produced which at prefent diver- 

 fify the furface of the earth. 



the parts of the fphere without the fpheroid 



While 



diminiih 



om them 



• 



will be depolited at the bot- 



tom of the fea, aiid will form ftrata parallel to the fur- 

 face of the fuperincumbent water; The aftual and lla- 

 tical figure are thus brought nearer one another 5 and. 



B 



(the 



ty), and is made continually to approximate to a ilate, 

 which when it has attained, no farther change can take 

 place, viz. an oblate elliptic fpheroid, of which the fur- 

 face is perpendicular to the direction of gravity, having 



diamctfer 



a 30 to Z29» 



