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wA '»>*i hwwii.'jjjtnfr CONTENTS. r\- • '* r.<. * CHAP. I. Defcription of the Surface of the Earth, ' Page I § i. Figure of the earth. 2. General ftru&ure and compo- fition of the cruft of the earth. 3. General diftribution of the inequalities on the furface of the earth, and their compofition. 4. Situation of petrifadtions. 5. Dif ferent dalles or degrees of terreftrial inequalities. 6. On continents and iflands, and the proportion of land to water on the furface of the earth. 7. General de fcription of high land and low land. 8. Parts of which high land is compofed. 9. AlpTfleTland. 10. Moun tainous land. 11. Hilly land. 12. Local fttuatioa of the conftituent part3 of high land. 13. Mountain- plains, 14. Low land. 15. Particular defcription of alpine land. 16. Parts of which fingle mountains are compofed. 17. Points of view under which mountain - groupes may be confidered. 18. Mountain-groupes, in regard to length. 19. 20. and 21. Mountain- groupes, in regard to height. 22. Mountain-groupes, in regard to breadth. 23. Mountain-groupes, in regard to the form and fhape of their mountains. 24. Moun- a tain-