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gure in an oppofite direction, comprefled together like rays. In 

 the fifliires are fome fmall fparks of metal. The fourth piece 

 has coalefced into the roundifhnefs of a cake, and is compofed of 

 many circles, gradually contracting themfelves, and proceeding 

 one from the other to the center, fo that the laft motion of the 

 matter of this ftone muft have been circular; this ftone is dark 

 grey. 



The different fhapes of thefe lapidious fubftances, by cafual al- 

 terations, remind me of a particular in Ofterdale in the mountain 

 of Svuku, on the borders of Sweden, which never fails to excite Rem arkabie 

 the admiration of the curious, and it may juftly be looked upon jj^V/tL 

 as one of the moft lingular monuments of the deluge. Mr. Dan- s^f* 11 of 

 tilas gives a good account of it in a memoir which he read in the 

 year 1742, before the royal academy of fciences in Sweden, and 

 has fince been publifhed, of which the following is an extract, 

 " The higheft creft of the mountain of Svuku in Oefterdalen, a 

 province of Norway, lies, according to a furvey taken by the ba- 

 rometer, above two thoufand ells higher than the lake of Famund, 

 a water betwixt the mountains. This mount confifts of one folid, 

 hard fand-ftone; on the top of the mountain Hands a folid huge 

 mafs of the fame ftone, which bears in it many marks of a diffo- 

 lution and difruption, which can be attributed to nothing but 

 water. For at the foot of this mafs, yet on the fummit of the 

 mountain towards the fouth, are feveral parallel channels, three 

 or four ringers deep, and of the like breadth, which at laft meet; 

 they appear to be the work of fome miner, but upon viewing 

 them on the fummit, the moft manifeft indications fhew them- 

 felves, as if the water had cut itfelf a paflage along fome heaps of 

 clay, fo that unqueftionably the true caufe of this Angularity is to- 

 be fought in the impetus and agitation of the waters. 



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