Buffon's Natural History.

CONTAINING
A THEORY OF THE EARTH,
A GENERAL
HISTORY OF MAN,
OF THE BRUTE CREATION, AND OF
VEGETABLES, MINERALS,
&c. &c.

FROM THE FRENCH.

WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.

IN TEN VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

London:
PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
AND SOLD BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1797.

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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.

Page
THE Theory of the Earth		1
Proof of the Theory of the Earth.
Article I.	On the Formation of the Planets	69
Article II.	From the System of Whiston	115
Article III.	From the System of Burnet	128
Article IV.	From the System of Woodward	131
Article V.	Exposition of some other Systems	137
Article VI.	Geography	155
Article VII.	On the Production of the Strata, or Beds of [iv]the Earth	183
Article VIII.	On Shells and other Marine Productions found in the interior Parts of the Earth	219
Article IX.	On the Inequalities of the Surface of the Earth	262
Article X.	Of Rivers	298

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