Copy 1, Volume 1
Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 300 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations. By William Smellie.
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Natural history, general and particular / by the Count de Buffon, translated into English. Illustrated with above 300 copper-plates, and occasional notes and observations. By William Smellie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dation, in, 1218, deftroyed 100,000 men. | Of inundations: thére are many other examples: . : _Impetuous winds may be regarded as a third er daar: changes on the furface of the globe. They not only give rife to downs and. hills along the fea-coafts, but they often arreft rivers, make them regorge, and change their directions. They carry off cultivated lands, tear up trees, overturn houfes, and. cover whole countries with fand. Uponthe coaft of Brittany, in France, we have an-example of thefe inundations of fand : The hiftory of the Academy, ann. 172 2 done it in the following terms : ig ; | ‘In, the environs: of . St Pink de Leon, in ‘ Lower Brittany, there is a province on the fea- coaft, which, before the year. 1666, was inha- * bited ;. but is now totally deferted, on account of an fand, which has covered it to the depth of 20 feet, and which daily gains ground. Reckoning from the above period, the fand has advanced about 6 leaguesinto the country; and it is now within half a league of St Paul, and that. town mult probably foon be deferted. The.tops of HEED Ef and of fome chimneys, fill appear above this ocean of fand. The inhabitants, however, have always had leifure to quit their poileffions in fafety ; p. 7.. * This calamity is augmented by an eaft, ora north wind, which elevate this fine fand, and: carry itin fuch quantities, and with fuch ra- à _pidity Fm Cal r mm La) a An. LE Lai La] La e rr](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33282924_0001_0542.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
