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of the points where our information is moft de- 

 ficient, and to which our obfervations ought 

 chiefly to be direded. But that many of the 

 exclulive and unambiguous inftances are known. 



in the natural hiftory of the globe, I think is 



evident from the reafoning in the foregoing pa- 



here fo many examples have occurred of 



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negative 

 it from 



appearances that give the 



fl dired 



the Nept 



fyftem, and exclud 



the number of poffible hypothefes, by which th 



phenomena of geology 

 abur 



be explained 



Th 



indance of fuch inilanccs is an infallible lign, 

 that the mafs of knowledge is in that ftate of fer- 

 mentation, from which the true theory may be 



expeded to emerge. 

 451. Another indication of the fame kind, is the- 



pproach 



lies make, in 



ome 



1 the moft oppoiite theo- 

 fpe6ls, to one another, 

 There are fo many points of contad betwecr 

 them, that they appear to approximate to an ul 



vever unwillingly 



That ultimate form 



timate ftate, in which, ho 



they rauft at laft coincide. 



too, which all thefe theories have a tendency 



f 



put on. 



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not deceived 



other th 



that of the Huttonian theory 



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I. The firft example I (hall take from the 

 fyftem of Saufture. It is to be regretted, that 

 this excellent geologift has no where given us a 

 complete account of his theory. Some of the 



leading 



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