[94] Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth, 1778.

[95] Observ. on the Formation of Mountains. Act Petrop. ann. 1778, part i.

[96] Nov. comm. Petr. XVII. Cuvier, Eloge de Pallas.

[97] Cuvier, Eloge de Werner.

[98] I am indebted for this information partly to Messrs. Sedgwick and Murchison, who have investigated the country, and partly to Dr. Charles Hartmann, the translator of this work into German.

[99] Cuvier, Eloge de Desmarest.

[100] Journ. de Phys. vol. xiii. p. 115; and Mém. de l'Inst., Sciences Mathémat. et Phys. vol. vi. p. 219.

[101] Journ. de Phys. tom. xxxv. p. 191.

[102] Ib. tom. xxxvii. part ii. p. 200.

[103] Cuvier, Eloge de Desmarest.