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Theory of the Earth: Theory of the Earth [1795], Vol. II : Chapter VII. The Same Subject continued, in giving a View of the Operations of Air and Water upon the Surface of the Land

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Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795] The Same Subject continued, in giving a View of the Operations of Air and Water upon the Surface of the Land. We have but to enlarge our thoughts with regard to things past by attending to what we see at present, and we shall understand many things which to a more contracted view appear to be in nature insulated or without a proper cause; such are those great blocks of granite so foreign to the place on which they stand, and so large as to…