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...second kind, and this second kind a third, and so on. Now, though the different kinds or layers of rocks do not in reality extend round the earth in...the continuity is often interrupted — yet still we trace enough of it to convince us that the rocks which constitute the crust of the earth, when contemplated...

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...second kind, and this second kind a third, and so on. Now, though the different kinds or layers of rocks do not in reality extend round the earth in...rest, partly from their own inequality of thickness in diflerent places, and partly from other causes, the continuity is often interrupted — yet still we...