Ch'ap. I. 'Theory os the Earth. ti

Here we find strata, -which had been ori-ginally formed at the bottom of the sea, byhaving transported materials deposited in ho-rizontal beds, now raised from that place inwhich they had been formed, and variouslybroken, fyent, and inclined from that horizon-tal plane in which they had been deposited*This is the view of things which is generalin this earth, and of which this author de-scribes so well the particulars.

Upon the subject of the general form andheds of the Jura, our author writes in p. 270,65 On recommitra que cette premiere chaine" de montagnes a fa face anterieure ou orien-“ tale compofee de couches qui s’elevent en“ s’appuyant centre les corps meme cle la" chaine ; et que ces memes couches redef-" cendent du cote oppose dans la vallee ou" Combe de Mijoux, pour former la face occi-5£ dentales de cette meme chaine. La forme“ general des couches de cette chaine refem-" blent done au toit d’une chaumiere qui" s’eleve depuis^ la terre jufques au faite et“ redefeend du cote oppose depuis le faite" jufques a terre. Les couches interieures“ paroisient paralelles a celles du debtors; eq.