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Title: Essay on the Theory of the Earth

Author: baron Georges Cuvier

Contributor: Robert Jameson

Release date: August 12, 2020 [eBook #62918]
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Language: English

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ESSAY

ON THE

THEORY OF THE EARTH.

FRONTISPIECE

Frontispiece
Page 518 W. H. Lizars Sc.
VERTICAL SECTION OF THE CAVERN AT GAYLENREUTH IN FRANCONIA

ESSAY

ON THE

THEORY OF THE EARTH.

By BARON G. CUVIER,

PERPETUAL SECRETARY OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE, PROFESSOR AND ADMINISTRATOR OF THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
&c. &c.

WITH

GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS,

BY

PROFESSOR JAMESON.

FIFTH EDITION,

TRANSLATED FROM THE LAST FRENCH EDITION, WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS BY THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND

T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON.

MDCCCXXVII.

Printed by P. Neill.