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' erystalize; and also’ Mr. Ferber's’ argument,llerivedgfrom
‘ the crystals which he discovered in the blacl:.'lava, with t
which the road from Rome to Ostia. was paved. 5
These are the arguments: urged "by the INeptunists, 3
who suppose,‘3that’our. northern? coast was once’ the scene !
of aqueous‘ ruin and devastation‘;‘while the’Vuleanists I ‘
urge ‘others’ eE1ually‘numerous, toxprove‘the origin of “
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this 'extra'ordinary‘sub'stance to be igneous, whether sub-
’ terraiieotis or "submarine. -‘And '.an ‘opportunity occurs
I of 'asking,rwliy do" we seek'the origin of basaltes with
‘ . more e11‘ergy:tl1an.that of‘;a11y,otherjirock ;'and why do we
suppose it to havebeen formed by, different means, and at
‘different periods, particularly as weiind thatlit is not:pecu-
liar to one or two countries ;. but scattered, like other rocks,
over the surface of the globe? The great basaltic region
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of ‘Saxony unites with a second region of a similar kind -V’
in Lusatia ;- from thence they join with thosetof Lower ‘ 1,‘ 7
Silesia,'of the country of Glatz, and of Upper Silesia; . am‘
and they continue as qfar.as the Carpathian ‘Mountains. "
Proceeding eastward, basalt occurs in,Armenia, -infPersia, "Z:
and to thefvery extremities of Asia. Hindostan,’ the Isle
of Bourbon,‘ inlthe South Sea. ' Beyond the Baltic Sea it " "" 3‘
re-appears in‘ Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Iceland, the
‘Hebrides. - To the west of Saxony, " again, it is found in
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Frai1conia,".and the country bordering 'on'.the Rhine. 'Be- 1 3
-ypondthat river, it-is found in':153urgu.ndy, in Auv ergne, and
among the Cevenes in’ great quantities, and again in Spain
.. and Portugal.’ This discovery of :so very general an
, ‘ existence of -basalt, may tend to diminish the astonish-
ment of the philosopher at findipngtit in Ireland, and pro-
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