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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



fleam by the application of h 



But if 



be once admitted 



heat refides in the mine 



ral reg 

 fyftem 



IS 



the great objedipn to Dr Hutton 

 moved : and the theorift, who w 



fornifhed with fo adive and fo powerful an 



gent, would b 



unikilful in the manag 



ment of his own refources, if he did not employ 

 it in the work cf confolidating as well as in that 

 of raifmg up the (Irata. A little attention 

 iw, that it is qualified for both purpofe 



will 



Ihew, 



though infuperable objedt 



r 



offer therafelves, where tl 



i muft, no doubtj 

 ffeds of compref 



lion are not 



derftood 



W 



may fafely 



elude, then, that the accurate and ingenious O 



gift of G 



ght 



have been a 



Flu 



in order to give confiftency to the prmci 

 pies which he had adopted, and to make them 

 iefce as parts of one and the fame fyftem. 

 embraced an oppofite opinion, it probably was 



Ifh 



from feeling th 



force of thofe objedions that 



arife from our difcovering nothing in the bo\ 

 of the earth like the remains left by combuft 



or 



fiamm 



at its furface. The fecret by 



which thefe feeming contradidions are to be re- 

 conciled, was unknown to this mineralogift, and 

 he has accordingly decided ftrongly againft the 

 adion of fire, even in the cafe of thofe unftratified 



that have the s;reateft affinity to vol 



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