A Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe: And the Changes Thereby Produced in the Animal Kingdom (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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There are now existing four oactive causes which contribute to alter the suface of our continents: the rains and thaws which lower our lofty mountains, and cast their relics at their feet; the flowing waters, which carry away their remains, and leave them in places where they retard their currents; the sea, which saps the base of the lofty coasts, and which forms the beach on which it casts the sand hills; and finally, the volcanoes, which perforate the solid lay ers, and elevate or scatter on the surface the masses which they vomit forth.(1)

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