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or more brandies which afterwards rounite into one i of many btioff rectilinear bnt ircJUiy 

 ln'in;; uaduliitin^ and Lent in short watca t a ad lastly of the aies of the channel* and the 

 ftriQLC ill llieir iutcjrirmr ]lj viiLjr tint ^;imc ue0.cr;jl direction jU the dep reunion* itt the neigh- 

 bouring c&'jnJry- Mr. Home* refers to the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Prance 

 (lame fit p. 6S) far &&me important tic«s at to the causes at these phenomena. I have not 

 access Eo the Bulletin , and cannot venture in mi ignorance or the roefcs and all other 

 dttjtL . to make nay further re mirks o" the :in.il»[jy bctimn the channel* described by 

 H r DuaoctcH and lho*c of Puh Ub*n ; but it U probable that the jtruclurc of the rock* 

 will be found in Ibo on* cd$e us in I he other to have faeilitaled the eruiun of the chan- 

 nel* ^ titid partly given tbcro I heir dircclioDf- 



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