Transcriber Note
Since § 134 appeared on page 143 and again on page 147, the Sectionnumber on pages 147 and all succeeding were incremented. The Table ofContents was also incremented respectively. List of ERRATA below has been applied to the text.
ERRATA.
| Page | 44. | line | 4. | from the bottom, | for | that | read | as |
| " | 189. | " | 6. | " | for | appearenes | read | appearances |
| " | 464. | " | 4. | " | for | D'Aubenton | read | Daubenton |
| " | 482. | " | 12. | " | for | adversaries | read | adversary |
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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE
HUTTONIAN THEORY
OF THE EARTH
By JOHN PLAYFAIR
F. R. S. EDIN. AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
Nunc naturalem causam quærimus et assiduam,non raram et foriuitam.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR CADELL AND DAVIES, LONDON, AND
WILLIAM CREECH, EDINBURGH.
1802.
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Entered in Stationers Hall.
Neill & Co. }
Printers, Edinburgh }
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ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Treatise here offered to the Public, was drawn up with aview of explaining Dr Hutton's Theory of the Earth in a manner morepopular and perspicuous than is done in his own writings. The obscurityof these has been often complained of; and thence, no dou