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Updated: June 29, 2025

To this I can give no reply, as the descriptions given of those strata do not enable me to decide this point. At the village of Mat, under the Mont Blatten for example, there is a quarry of schistus or black slate, in which are often found the print and the bones of fishes.

James Hutton - Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4)