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Theory of the Earth: Chapter I: Section II. An Investigat...

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Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795] An Investigation of the Natural Operations employed in consolidating the Strata of the Globe. We are now about to investigate those mineral operations of the globe by which the qualities of hardness and solidity, consequently of strength and durability, are procured to great bodies of this earth. That those qualities are not original to such bodies, but actually superinduced in the natural operations of the earth, will appear from the…