of the Earth,

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CHAR II.

she fame SiihjeEt continued , with examplesfrom different Countries .

UR theory, it must be remembered, has

for principle, that all the alpine as wellas horizontal strata had their origin at the bot-tom of the sea, from the deposite of sand, gra-vel, calcareous and other bodies, the materialsof the land which was then going into ruin ;it must also be observed, that all those strataof various materials, although originally uni-form in their structure and appearance as acollection of stratified materials, have acqui-red appearances which often are difficult toreconcile with that of their original, and isonly to be understood by an examination ofa series in those objects, or that gradationwhich is sometimes to be perceived from theone extreme state to the other, that is fromtheir natural to their most changed state. M.de Sauflure who will not be suspected of ha-ving any such theory in his view, will be found