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We are now to see the deplacement of at least a great body of earth in another light, by having at the same time in our view both the cause and the effect. Nothing can give a more proper example of this than the mine of Rammelsberg; and no description better adapted to give a clear idea than that of M. de Luc, which I shall now transcribe. Lettres Phisiques et Morales, Tome 3. p. 361 to 364.
This question therefore will be properly decided in our author's journey to the Alps; for, if we shall there find calcareous strata perfectly consolidated, as they should be by the extreme operation of subterranean heat and fusion; if we find materials of every species formed after the manner of stratification; and if all those different strata variously consolidated shall be found in all positions, similar to those which we have now seen in the examination of the Jura and Saleve, with this difference, that the deplacement and contorsion may be more violent in those highly consolidated strata, we shall then generalise an operation by which the present state of things must have been produced; and in those regular appearances, we shall acknowledge the operation of an internal heat, and of an elevating power.
First, there is no distinction to be made of what is termed primary and secondary mountains, with regard to the position of their strata; every different species of stratum, from the stratified granite and quartzy schistus of the Alps to the oolites of the Jura and Saleve, being found in every respect the same; whether this shall be supposed as arising from their original formation, or, according to the present theory, from a subsequent deplacement of strata formed originally in a horizontal situation.
We have now not only found a cause corresponding to that which can alone be conceived as producing this evident deplacement of bodies formed horizontally at the bottom of the sea, but we have also found that this same cause has operated every where upon those strata, in consolidating by means of fusion the porous texture of their masses.
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