Gkolooy.] natural HISTORY. 6()0 
double the distance between the Baltic and the Mediterra- 
nean. — If, however, future researches should confirm the 
indications above mentioned, a new case will be supplied in 
support of the principle long since advanced by Mr. 
Michell *.j which appears (whatever theory be formed to ex- 
plain it,) to be established by geological observation in so 
many other parts of the world, — that the outcrop of the in- 
clined beds, throughout the stratified portion of the globe, 
is every where parallel to the longer ridges of mountains, — 
towards which, also, the elevation of the strata is directed. 
But in the present state of our information respecting Au- 
stralia, all such general views are so very little more than 
mere conjecture, that the desire to furnish ground for new 
inquiry, is, perhaps, the best excuse that can be offered for 
having proposed them. 
* On the Cause of Earthquakes.— -Philosophical Transactions, 
1760. vol. li. p. 566—585, 586. 
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