Note 22 — Chapter I · (continued 4)

Footnote 22: (return) M. de Saussure, upon the evidence before us, might have gone farther, and maintained that the masses of granite, which here traverse the strata in form of veins and irregular blocks, had been truly of a posterior formation. But this is a subject which we shall have afterwards to consider in a particular manner; and then this example must be recollected.