My highlights from, "Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations, In Four Parts"

1. Theory of the Earth, with Proofs
and Illustrations, In Four Parts
James Hutton, Sir Archibald Geikie
Messrs Cadell, junior, and Davies, London; and W. Creech
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Created by Jennifer Wall – Last synced March 2, 2016
Observations Made In A Journey To
[When Hutton's first sketch of his Theory of the Earth was
read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in the spring of
1785,
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But what is still more remarkable or worthy of attention is
this, that the line in which the strata of this mountainous
region are ele vated or depressed, seems to preserve the
same direction with this line of general division for the
species of country ; for while the perpendicular strata or
edge-beds of this alpine region may be found inclined or
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2. heading both to the north-west and south east, the general
direction of S.W. and N.E. is still preserved in the
stretching line of the strata which is horizontal ; at least,
this is the case much more frequently than it is otherwise.*
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