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Page 141
... supposed that large hollows , or valleys among hills , might be left filled with sea - water , which evaporating , and the fluid part drying away in a course of years , would leave the salt covering the bottom ; and that salt coming ...
... supposed that large hollows , or valleys among hills , might be left filled with sea - water , which evaporating , and the fluid part drying away in a course of years , would leave the salt covering the bottom ; and that salt coming ...
Page 157
... supposed wall of separation may be conceived as a moveable one , which is not only pushed some miles higher up the river by every flood - tide from the sea , and carried down again as far by every tide of ebb , but which has even this ...
... supposed wall of separation may be conceived as a moveable one , which is not only pushed some miles higher up the river by every flood - tide from the sea , and carried down again as far by every tide of ebb , but which has even this ...
Page 166
... supposed a gradual production of time ? If the earth is at present magnetical , in virtue of the masses of iron ore contained in it , might not some ages pass before it had magnetic polarity ? Since iron ore may exist without that ...
... supposed a gradual production of time ? If the earth is at present magnetical , in virtue of the masses of iron ore contained in it , might not some ages pass before it had magnetic polarity ? Since iron ore may exist without that ...
Page 168
... supposed internal fluid globe be immediately sensible of a change in the situation of the earth's axis , alter its form , and thereby burst the shell , and throw up parts of it above the rest ? As , if we would alter the position of the ...
... supposed internal fluid globe be immediately sensible of a change in the situation of the earth's axis , alter its form , and thereby burst the shell , and throw up parts of it above the rest ? As , if we would alter the position of the ...
Page 11
... supposed to be now upwards of one mil- lion of English souls in North America ( though it is thought scarce 80,000 have been brought over sea ) and yet perhaps there is not one the fewer in Britain , but rather many more , on account of ...
... supposed to be now upwards of one mil- lion of English souls in North America ( though it is thought scarce 80,000 have been brought over sea ) and yet perhaps there is not one the fewer in Britain , but rather many more , on account of ...
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