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mal, and all the great anticlinal and sinclinal lines on which the funda-_ 
eation. He always proceeded on this principle; nor (from the paucity of 
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_ Carboniferous series, and their position in a trough of the subjacent rocks, 
which rocks, on account of their position and their organic contents, 
were concluded to belong to the Devonian, or Old Red Sandstone period, — 
other localities. Finally, we may notice another joint memoir by these 
authors in 1830, ‘On the Structure of the Eastern Alps,’ which, howevehy 
ad no immediate relation to the researches on the Paleozoic formation: — 
_ will ormeonittenns~ the memoirs which have been noticed art 
me most part pervaded by a certain unity of purpose. The investig® 
tions were not on points of merely local Sitpienn but were essential 
