Note 28 — Chapter I · (continued 6)

Footnote 28: (return) In the first part of this work, the distinction has been made of true volcanic productions, and those which are so frequently confounded with them; these last, though the creatures of subterranean fire, and bodies which have been made to flow in a fluid state, are clearly different from those masses of lava which have issued from a volcano, as has been there described. I would only here observe, that, according to this Theory, these bodies, which the Chevalier de Dolomieu here represented as lava and volcanic production, must be considered as unerupted lavas, which had been made to flow among the strata of the earth, where other at the bottom of the sea, or during those operations by which this land was erected above the level of the ocean.