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Theory of the Earth: Theory of the Earth [1795], Vol. II : Chapter VIII. The present Form of the Surface of the Earth explained, with a View of the Operation of Time upon our Land

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Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795] The present Form of the Surface of the Earth explained, with a View of the Operation of Time upon our Land. It is not to common observation that it belongs to see the effects of time, and the operation of physical causes, in what is to be perceived upon the surface of this earth; the shepherd thinks the mountain, on which he feeds his flock, to have been always there, or since the beginning of things; the inhabitant of the valley…