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Excerpt from A System of Geology, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Theory of the Earth; And an Explanation of Its Connexion With the Sacred Records Having thus brought down the history of the Globe to the period at which we must believe that it had nu dergone its last important changes, and was, funda mentally at least, What we know it now, it_remains to pursue those which it has since experienced, and is still undergoing exclusively however of the production of coral and the agency of volcanoes, already discussed. I' have shown the difficulty of ascertaining the exact nature of the last great marine emergence of the land, especially as it relates to Time; as also thatva long period must have been occupied in minor and posterior revolutions but although proving, therefore, that the received notion of one brief and complete Emergence, determining the present face of the sea and land, is in correct and careless, this subject must be treated from such an imaginary condition that I may avoid a com plication as intolerable, as it must be, in its details, conjectural. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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