DEN 
‘(See Dr. Dickfon’s Agricultural Magazine, vol. ii. p. 30.) 
“The denudated aye of Derbyfhire above-mentioned, were 
‘alfo examined by t me gentleman, and fetions croffing 
m, w wn autumn, preparatory to a 
acrofs the county, from Nottingham- 
efhire, in er ie through the towns of Boifover, 
fhire 
Chefterfield, Bakewell, Buxton. The inquiries thus 
ftrata of the Britih. iflands 
not fail to colle& every aie ry in our 
information of our readers on this curious and important 
"ae of the chara&ters by which a denudated tra& of 
country are diftinguithed are the following: 1ft, the fame 
is {urrougded, in great part, or in whole, by upper ftrata in 
; ad, the edges of thefe apt dae {trata have not that 
indented or fingered form, which i i 
by the endings of ftrata, oss that article 
ew t figns nae rupture in their 
ae i are often very ftraight in 
4th, the ftrata, for fome diftance round a 
denudation, generally rife or incline towards the fame; 
but in fome rare inftances, as at Crich (fee that article), the 
the edges t 
ata may, in that cafe, no where appear on the furface, as 
the ftrata will all do, in fucceffive rings, round uda 
‘tion, when they rife towards it ; 5th, the denudated ftratum, 
or lowelt one expofed, frequently forms the higheft ground of 
the diftri€, and rifes generally on all fidés towards a central 
‘part, which is much diflocated and broken by ravines and fif- 
fures; 6th, the fucceffive rings of {trata round a denudation, 
‘often form aj ftir é& rifes like fteps, the top or se of each of 
with foine parting or loofer 
0 
mafs of each ftratum; ‘7th 
— have ‘feldom any rolled pebbles or all luvial matters 
em er thickly they may be diltributed on the 
jae which fveand or form the edges of the denudation : 
of this the great Suffex denudation furnithes _a remarkable 
inftance $ 
n 
feldom have thei 
‘than the furrounding ground; of this, Crich-hill above- 
mentioned may be cited as an inflance; for the al 
and S.E. 
repeated with others, perhaps, which are noted in .the 
Magazine, vol. xxv. p. 45, and vol. xxviii. p. 
' which he 
“violence and 
dénudated — 
for -t 
DEN 
ote common-place book of the writer, but were never 
olle&ted out, tend, as he thinks, cleariy to fhew, that 
enudated diftri&s were, moft of them, at fome period, heaved 
up to a much greater height than at prefent, and that the 
higher or “mot Projecting: . aa la ale of - earth 
were {calpe no ge of them left ! 
That thefe dendations or fea ings of the country, ai not. 
take place from volca plelar the of an 
mn e faperincumbert 
» _becavfe 
hem in the form of a crater; aie e the borders of fach a 
di nee d diftri& muft have remained ftrewed with the 
ifplaced — - flrata, as ane flanks of esac mouns 
tains are knov 
It is prefered, oo the new aba on this fubj-&, which 
Mr, Farey firit a promulgated in the Philcfophical 
120. and of 
which we one fine given fome further illuftrations in our 
articles Cotuizry, Continent, and others, will fatisface 
torily account ‘for the phenomena of denudation, in fhewing, 
a pow m above, on know 
rinciples, was ade 
has examine ed ont 
contemplated from the ag and defcriptions of others, 
ftupendous as thefe appear to be, and which the all-wife 
Creator has, as-in all his other works, brought about by 
means the moft fimple, and who, out of a period of apparent 
diforder, which muft baffle all attempts at 
defcription, at length brought about a fate of the terrae - 
queous globe, fo perfe€tly fitted for the habitation and ufes 
of the numerous Cet ey created ee a that 
the moft fertile imagination cannot, it is ed, fugpeft 
one fenton in the cr aft of the earth, which we vald really 
improve the condition of the animate beings who inhabit it. 
The minute examination of the interefting diftri@ in and - 
near ee fhire, which the gentleman alluded to has undere 
aken to make, under the liberal Uhr of the worthy 
prefer a the Royal Society o we truit, 
e application of 
ei ar h an as the articles referring to them occur in > 
ork. 
“DENUNCIATION, Denuncratio, a folemn publi« 
‘cation, or promulgation of any thin 
veffels of enemies are lawful prize after denunciation, 
or proclamation o 
poe of the denunciation of excommunicated pers - 
fons is, that t t 
the see a may be known, the entrance into te church re- 
xecuted; 
fufed them, and that other oe may be warned not “to 
have any communication with t 
DENUTAR, in ie crop, 4 a town -of Egypt on the” 
ace 8 miles N.E. 0 
ENYS, Joun, in as doétor in medicine; of Mont- 
oie where he received his education, is only remembered for 
the zeal with which he recommended the transfufion of blood © 
he cure Dr. 
mor touchant une nouvelle maniere de guerir plufieurs malae 
dics par la transfufon du fang,” 4to. Paris, In this he tells 
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