gM s of fand, or little round fepoth .and -pellucid ifones..
are %ppfed,, by Mr. Buffon, in his ?Natural Hiftory, lately p^fet
li/hed, to he only g-lafs particles grinded, or | |
tlinyepiiains of [the great noaverfal diftblntion, and o f tlie vittifica-
thereupon, which our earth appears foifefelyttO
But^i,tips w@ftijtll enlargdimftfe fequehh;
va^Hy^oth *sjd-&ufe,,j* $o he fotodian die:>or^ksy feut
^ ^ e a t ^ p l e p ^ ^ ^ t e ^ ^ e r . u p tKe eO un^/p artkql^ly
mi-nqs Ghriftiatiia and BronthdrPjitM^tfky
Mf-l?£dy ^g^n toiiu^Tt for earthen-ware,/ and if the- fame
manufaaure was parried on in other .parts of thn country,,-we
mjgjit havg a fufiicient fupply withourimportationsfoom Abroad
|tis:not m c ^ u M for bricks, as-moft
m W , ; Pr, a kind of huildmglfepne*/which thd Butch djand
other-foreigners, bring hither as ballad, and feE therm here.. |fowi
^...piayj^ai, ; by degrees, come to be ufed -for «Ming, dpocially
in the country, as the price. bf naver, of birch-daark^ wltich has
the oovering^ior hceuies,, .rales dvdyiycar ‘ land
gfCat . numbers o f trees fuffer by the ufe .of fo * Other fee? and
|kh?F *$m & * dark brown and yellow* cofour/;
pskHfrsj m alfo met with m T e r a^ f la a ^ a b i paraaila^'af
JUngerigeYis a Had ofblackday, notinferiorfe its'feene^fo
Teitr^fgiUa^ and by the pea&nts nfed w b l& i& g .S
Tvtff, M i brown and bMck, which.iai the be%.:dsTfehd in
^ y T arts* M chiefly whereihe ndfe.£>eatonfoM&w,','that in
^ S g g p -Qf time it would be moft jaeeeflary, vriaarielyynixi thb
^Cfler and ^eater ^enrnluir^ -Qr
t o L%/ca; to a, M joined ifo the contiadt
y t& M % % $ M 4 where.the weft-winds hinder thegrowth of
which aye further thinned, by ihip-building, fo that without
turf, the- pea&its and filherme» would be very muckdH
ftrefied, e%e?i%va? they aye obliged to fetch thegrpateft part
ofthetimbec.for lipufes and .barks, ftom the continent. K o l ia s
tijere are ,#t "the
depth of feme yards, branches and roots, and many very large, evexi
flocks of fires apd pipes, which the turpentine has preferred, this
ihews the earth to have been gradually filled and as it were grown
up from a
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and t-he feptirnept of fame, philofophers attributing to’ it a végéta*
tive oçfelf-tenhwing powey^by which it grows again, tho’ flowly*,
is |bnfirmed,by experience, Yhe heftiifthu'àôr ÿ fpr .füfficiçnt in-
ftances of|t. appear in Denmark, Runeburg, Friefland, Holland,
England, and Picardy in Frande^. Gn this rijeafion,; I muft obferve,
conceyningjthe large bodies apd.,p$£ts,tQ£trees fo frequently found
among this, vegetating turff-grqûnd, that they are mot fuch convincing
teftimonies of the deluge, àÿyforie account them ; a
much better proof may befdlapvri from other foflils,' which neve?
Could 'Be native's of the placés'wbërè theÿSfë found ;s of this knuf |
particularly, - ?is/tha?'entire fkeleton of a^whkle,' accidentally fouhd’skdefcmflil*
in r68y, ift Tiftedale, near Frederickfhall. \Iirwas burial with
earth and Tand, at lêaft 240 feet under ground.
' The fwamps astid marfhes, or-Myrs, as they‘ate called hefe, lié*
both on thé ridges Of -the mountains,!.artifHn.'the vallies^ at, tiip'
foot of the fteepeft precipices ; thefe, mfeanfepkees,, .render the
they, being paflablc only in the;.drieft:former
months^ and iometimes nöt .eyen .then, unlels a kind ofecaufe-#
way is formed over, them at „tihg publiç^charge, {,with thoufends of
’Jogs; and large pieces of ^flmbemlaid aerofsït^è. marfli, which are
foon. rotten, ^ In thele places the ground is, as,fpftjas dough, yielding
apd moving under the Foot, there being, probably,,, beneath
thefe marfhes, an-.abyfs of ftanding water, which is thus,yeakly
vaulted^over., Near Læflbe, .m. the diocefe, of Chriftianfand, tliis
timber caufeway, is ■ carried pp fo r near a mile, and i f a horfe, or a
much"|Ss animal, happens to tpake tpe le^ rvOTong -ftep, he feks
beyond recovery.;.
‘That there axe coal-mines in Norway, and Specially in the
diocefe of Aggerhuus, where the late governor-DitlefWibe, a
gentleman ever attentive to, the prolperity and improvement of the
country, eînplpyed feme fkftful perfon^ in a fearch of them, not
altogether unfuccefsful, is what I have been,informed of, but not
with a certainty tö%dyance any thing pofttiye on the fubjedt..- The
yellow, deary and ropy fubftance on the forface o f the water in
* The excellent, thougH*hw înfalliblyphilBrapher, Baron. Leibmtz, Falls rato a
miftake, when He fays,< m his’ProtOgæa, Sect YLJVfpag 8r2r.''Torfam ekcS^ro re-
nafei nondutocqPapértum dr, em aqnfe ladvehant la '^fphisfefcis jarh^natam-; And
pag. 83, Longum eflHt expedàr^yÏÏfti toftiyi-eftafcatür, nee fortè hoi; cpnöqget, nifi
ift orbe àlib’pôft Platohicam rehim 'rèvolutiofffeffi.
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