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be at ers down their Chinks and Precipices,th ln t d mc undermined and subverted. Takee fp in his own words :

^ vpon the reading of your Discourse os thef lyiS continually washing away, and carryingEarth from the Mountains, I was put inI) °f something pertinent thereto, which I°bserved in the Mountains of Caernar-“"Ihirc, viz,

f . 1 ' FirH, That generally the higher the% J are f Je more ft ee P are their PrecipicesDeclivities (Iexcept the Sea-rocks') thus^Qel y Wydhrha, y 61 ib gotch, and twentyff er s that might be named, reputed the high-^ T-fills in Wales, have the jleepeft RocksI any Mountains I have seen ; and that not3 in their highest Cliffs, but also in most( t their other Crags, till you descend to theVilleys: This J can ascribe to nothingbut the Rains and Snow which fall on thosel ffh Mountains, I think, in ten times the

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Entity they do on the lower Hills and Fal-

I have observed a considerable quantity0 c t' J e chips or parings (if I may so call them)Jheje Cliff's to lye in va(l heaps at the rootsh them ; and these are of several sorts andserials being in some places covered withf a st, and in others as bare as the Sea-Jbore :® those bare places do consist sometimes of

Gravel,