Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole].
- Cole, William, active 1807.
- Date:
- 1807
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cursory remarks on some parts of a work, entitled Studies of nature ; originally written by M. de Saint Pierre, and translated into English by ... Henry Hunter / [William Cole]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to the plane upon which they grow. Upon this subject, however, we shall only observe, that the advantages accruing to mankind, from the irre¬ gularity of the surface of the earth, do not de¬ pend upon the quantity of surface exposed to the atmosphere, but upon various other circum¬ stances which are obvious to every one, and which it is needless to enumerate. There has never existed a more fruitful source of imaginary speculation than the universal de¬ luge. Persons in every age, for centuries past, have been very solicitous to account tor the causes which produced that catastrophe; and theories, as various as the visions of their inventors, have been formed, to solve the difficulties arising from that direful event. Our author, as might be expected, has joined this visionary corps, and, not content with the systems of his predecessors, has advanced one of his own. The illustration of this theory occu* pies a considerable portion of his work; but the following outline may be sufficient to shew its leading principle: “My supposition then is,” says he, [Page 170, Vol. L] “that, at the epo- “cha of this tremendous catastrophe, the sun,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30369332_0068.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
