{"collection":"Earth Mysteries","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe25_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe25_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_earth_toe_toe25_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/earth/toe/toe25.htm","summary":"Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795]\nFacts in confirmation of the Theory of Elevating\n Land above the Surface of the Sea. The first object now to be examined, in confirmation of the theory, is that change of posture and of shape which is so frequently found in mountainous countries, among the strata which had been originally almost plain and horizontal. Here it is also that an opportunity is presented of having sections of those objects, by which the internal construction of\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Theory of the Earth: Theory of the Earth [1795], Vol. II ...","tradition":"Earth Mysteries","translated_text":null,"word_count":7620}