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A shock so violent and universal as thatdiich pervaded the globe during the dilu-ian revolution must have produced notnly innumerable alterations in the whole:x tent of its surface, endless to detail (andbelonging rather to the natural history ofrts particular geographic divisions than to aMiieral survey of the whole), but also haveprepared, by loosening its bads, many otherchanges that took effect some centuries af-ter > as I have already hinted; of these,however, some are so important, by theirconnexion either with the past transactions°f the inhabitants of the globe, or with thea ctual external appearance or subterraneousstate of the countries with which we arebest acquainted, that they Cannot be to--ta % Passed over in silence; such ‘are thetotal separation of Asia from America, the

c °arctation of the Baltic, the separation ofG 4 the