"Huttonian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by your arguments. Supposing the lands of New Holland were to be washed into the depths of the ocean, and to be raised according to the Huttonian view, as a secondary stratum, by subterraneous fire, they would contain the remains of both vegetables and animals entirely different from any found in the strata of the old continents; and may not those peculiar formations to which you have referred be, as it were, accidents ...
— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy |
