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... petrified in Mountains , Quarries , and other Parts of the Earth , and of the feveral Impreffions left by them on Stones and Pebbles . The first dated from Eu in the Upper Normandy , May the 20th , 1724 . OU may very well remember , Sir ...
... petrified in Mountains , Quarries , and other Parts of the Earth , and of the feveral Impreffions left by them on Stones and Pebbles . The first dated from Eu in the Upper Normandy , May the 20th , 1724 . OU may very well remember , Sir ...
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... petrified . Amongst the Echi nus , as well as the Shells , you meet with fome quite fill'd with the Marl amidst which you find them , and fome of them wholly petrified . I have alfo feen fair Impreffions of the Echinus upon Pebbles ...
... petrified . Amongst the Echi nus , as well as the Shells , you meet with fome quite fill'd with the Marl amidst which you find them , and fome of them wholly petrified . I have alfo feen fair Impreffions of the Echinus upon Pebbles ...
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... petrified , or at least to be diftinguifhed by their Colour from this white Mud , as well as the remains of other Things which were there before the Flood ? And lastly , Ought we not in this Mud to find more Bones of Men and Beafts than ...
... petrified , or at least to be diftinguifhed by their Colour from this white Mud , as well as the remains of other Things which were there before the Flood ? And lastly , Ought we not in this Mud to find more Bones of Men and Beafts than ...
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... petrified Plants , which are often found in feperate Pieces , and which could not poffibly have poffibly have grown in that Manner . Laftly , There are others of Opinion , that thefe Mountains , and all the Places where we find fuch ...
... petrified Plants , which are often found in feperate Pieces , and which could not poffibly have poffibly have grown in that Manner . Laftly , There are others of Opinion , that thefe Mountains , and all the Places where we find fuch ...
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... petrifying Moisture which is in the Earth ; and which being accidentally in thofe very Pla- ces where these things were to be met with , it has entirely pene- trated , and by coagulating has at length petrified them ; or elfe Stones ...
... petrifying Moisture which is in the Earth ; and which being accidentally in thofe very Pla- ces where these things were to be met with , it has entirely pene- trated , and by coagulating has at length petrified them ; or elfe Stones ...
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