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literature on fossils during this part of the eighteenth century. 
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sea and land. He estimates that, at the observed rate of reces- 
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oltaire (1694-1778), discuss logical questions and the 
ture of at in area of js works; but his published 
Finding, however, 
that theologians used these objects to confirm the Scriptural 
account of the deluge, he changed his views, and accounted for 
fossil shells found in the Alps, by suggesting that they were 
Eastern — dropped by the pilgrims on their return from 
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Buffon, in 1749, published his important work on N atural 
ory, and included in it his “ theory of the Earth,” in 
was as follows: “The waters of the sea have produce 
mountains and valleys of the land,—the waters the heavens 
