Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795]
The same Subject continued, in giving still
farther Views of the Dissolution of the
Earth. To have an idea of this operation of running water changing the surface of the earth, one should travel in the Alps; it is there that are to be seen all the steps of this progression of things, and so closely connected in the scene which lies before one, that there is not required any chain of argument, or distant reasoning from effect to cause, in…