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Theory of the Earth: Chapter I: Section III. Investigatio...

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Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795] Investigation of the Natural Operations employed in the Production of Land above the Surface of the Sea. We seek to know that operation by means of which masses of loose materials, collected at the bottom of the sea, were raised above its surface, and transformed into solid land. We have found, that there is not in this globe (as a planet revolving in the solar system) any power or motion adapted to the purpose now in view; nor, were there…