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Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth

Note 128 — Note xiv. § 75.

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Mémoire de Deodate de Dolomieu, sur les Volcains Eteints du Val di Noto, en Sicile. Journal de Phys. tom. xxv. (1784. Septembre.) p. 191.

[129] Near Vizini, in the Val di Noto, Dolomieu tells us, that he counted eleven beds, alternately calcareous and volcanic, in the perpendicular face of a hill, which at a distance appeared like a piece of cloth, striped black and white; ubi supra. He has since made similar observations in the Vicentine and in Tyrol. Journal de Phys. tom. xxxvii. (1790), partie 2, p. 200.

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