successive stages of deposition. 11.3 
getables are piled into stupendous monuments 
le operations of life and death, during almost 
sio-hT^^T periods of past time. “ At the 
posiL Cuvier,* » so im- 
lifp of the wreck of animal 
treafl entire soil on which we 
from ’h restrain the imagination 
hv whTr^*”®. eonjectures as to the causes 
EaT!r into the strata of the 
arth the higher do we ascend into the archaeo 
b^ca, h«„ry of po„ of crea.ior w" 
find successive stages marked by varying form' 
f animal and vegetable life, and these generally 
■l.ffer more and more widely from exMnI 
Sacfos „Tth®° itto the 
tions crea- 
"lisaover a constant and regular 
^ emblage of organic Remains, commeSln" 
w th one series of strata, and ending with another" 
Win r :r : 
‘'.osTitsrorw^hrr'e'^^t'r'"'' 
mineral dc ^^^^‘^nther, when we investigate the 
posits on the surface of the Earth. 
’■''Pl'on sur le profvrks des sciences naturelles, p, 179 
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