Excerpt from Geological Travels, Vol. 3 of 3: Travels in England, Translated From the French Manuscript To be adduced; but among the geologists who asso ciate this excavating process with their several sys tems, none have undertaken to show that progress; they all content themselves with using the following general and specious argument, which, in particular, has been employed by Dr. Horns and Mr. Play rua. Whenever there have been rains for along continuance, we see the rivers and their various branches carry down earthy particles, which never return to the spots whence the waters, in their pas-b sage, have detached them consequently, during the course of a sufficient number of ages, (it is of no im portance what number, ) these streams may have hollowed out the rallies. This operation is necessary especially to the distinctive hypothesis of the Hut tonian theory, namely, that the materials carried of from existing continents are spread over the bottom of the sea, and there form mineral strata for succeed ing continents. But the excavation of vallies by running waters belongs also to other theories, whereof the distinctive hypothesis, though differing widely from each other, yet agree in requiring that the tim0 during which our continents have existed should be beyond calculation: it is therefore under this gene ral pointof view that I shall here consider the ques. Tion respecting the origin of bullies. 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.