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ppolite fide of the equator 



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that the northern and fouthern heniifpheres ai 

 not perfedly alike, and that the earth is not i 

 qually compreffed at the Ardic and the Antard 



poles 



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Thefe irregularities, though they do 



afFed the general fa6t of the earth's coraprefiion 

 at the poles, fhew that the true llatical figure is 

 but imperfedly attained ; and though this may 

 be accounted for, v/ithout having recourfe to the 



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principles involved in our theory, it is in a man- 

 ner very unfatisfadory, and, by help of fuppofi^ 

 tions, not at all confident with tl 

 dity afcribed to the whole mafs, 

 rior crufl of the earth. 



441. As the principles here laid down explain 



nearly the 



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ginal flui^ 

 the exte- 



how 



folid body may attain very 



figure which a fluid would acquire in 



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preferve its parts m 



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oblate figure belongs to other of the planets as 



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well as the earth, and the globular to all the 

 great bodies of the univerfe, this fuggells 

 logy that goes deep into the ecoiiOi^y 



of 



ture, and extends far beyond the 



mits within 



which 



mineralogift is wont to confi 



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found 



fpeculations. 



442. That no very irregular fi 

 among the planetary bodies, may therefore be 

 confidered as a proof of the univcrfality of that 

 fyfi:em of wafte and reconfolidation that we have 



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