...years. So long ago as the latter half of the last century Hutton propounded the doctrine that ' the mountains have been formed by the hollowing out of...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains. 9 This idea was afterwards expanded and illustrated by his his disciple Playfair. But it ran counter...

...thoughtful survey of the configuration of a land-surface can lead to any other conclusion than that " the mountains have been formed by the hollowing out of...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." 1 The independence of each hydrographical basin, the nice adjustment of all its parts, the union of...

...thoughtful survey of the configuration of a land-surface can lead to any other conclusion, than that "the mountains have been formed by the hollowing out of...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." Did the reader ever stand on a flat shore and watch how the water, which had soaked into the sand just...

...years. So long ago as the latter half of the last century Hutton propounded the doctrine that ' the mountains have been formed by the hollowing out of...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains.' This idea was afterwards expanded and illustrated by Sir Roderick Murchison, as a consistent Catastrophist,...

...how a thoughtful survey can load to any other conclusion than that " the mountains have been.formed by the hollowing out of the valleys, and the valleys...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." Did the reader ever stand on a flat shore and watch how the water, which had soaked into the sand just...

...frost, springs, rivers—by which they are still made wider and deeper. "The mountains," he said, " have been formed by the hollowing out of the valleys,...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." This is a doctrine which is only now beginning to be adequately realised. Yet to Hutton it was so obvious...

...still made wider and deeper. " The mountains," he said, " have been formed by the hollowing out i>f the valleys, and the valleys have been hollowed out...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." This is a doctrine which is only now beginning to be adequately realised. Yet to Hutton it was so obvious...

...simple fact, and not merely of opinion. The language of Hutton maybe literally true of Britain :—" The mountains have been formed by the hollowing out of...of hard materials coming from the mountains." Our British hills, unlike the chains of the Jura and the Alps, are simply irregular ridges depending for...

...frost, springs, rivers—by which they are still made wider and deeper. "The mountains," he said, " have been formed by the hollowing out of the valleys,...attrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." This is a doctrine which is only now beginning to be adequately realized. Yet to Button it was so obvious...

...agents—rain, frost, springs, rivers—by which they are still made wider end deeper. "The mountains," he said, "have been formed by the hollowing out of the valleys, and the valleys have been hollowed out by the aitrition of hard materials coming from the mountains." This is a doctrine which is only now beginning...