CHAP. XIV.

_Summary of the Doctrine which has been now Illustrated._






PART II.

_FARTHER INDUCTION OF FACTS_ AND _OBSERVATIONS, RESPECTING THE
GEOLOGICAL PART_ OF THE _THEORY_.





INTRODUCTION.

By the present theory, the earth on which we dwell is represented as
having been formed originally in horizontal strata at the bottom of the
ocean; hence it should appear, that the land, in having been raised from
the sea, and thus placed upon a higher level, had been of a different
shape and condition from that in which we find it at the present time.
This is a proposition now to be considered.

In whatever order and disposition the hard and solid parts of the
land were at the time of its emerging from the surface of the sea, no