move from parts that resist more, to partsthat resist less. We are not, therefore, toexpect traces of such a motion on the op-posite coasts of the Old World and theNew, unless we suppose that a body ofwater, having power to scoop out the bedof the Atlantic, has met with some impe-diment sufficient to divert its stream fromthe coasts of Europe and Asia , to that ofAmerica. Accordingly, so far from beingable to discover alternate and oppositeangles along the shores of the Ocean, wecannot discover them along the shores ofthe Mediterranean, the Baltic, the Red Sea , the English or Bristol Channel , noreven along the.banks of the inland lakes ofWindermere, Loch Lomond, or Killarney .

Other writers deny the fact to be so ge-neral, even as Bourguet represented it tobe; in the vallies of the infant Rhine,Rhone, and Reuss, they have searched forthese appearances in vain, and, therefore,suppose them confined to secondary dis-tricts : but it is not true that they belongmore to secondary districts than primary,nor if true, would the instances adduced

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