_ comblees, aboutissantes
au _filon_ principale. Ils font de meme _calcaires_ et marins faits par
_couches_; mais ces _couches_ ont une si grande inclinaison, que je ne
puis les comprendre: il faut qu'il y ait eu d'etranges bouleversemens
dans ces endroits-la[27].

[Note 27: Here, no doubt, are appearances which it is impossible to
explain by the theory of infiltration; it is the filling of mineral
veins, and their branches or ramifications, with marble containing marks
of marine objects. But, if we shall suppose this marble to have been in
the fluid state of fusion, as well as the iron-ore and jasper, we may
easily conceive it introduced into the principal vein and its branches.
The description here given of those appearances is by no means such as
to enable us to judge particularly of this case, which surely merits the
most accurate investigation, and which, I doubt not, will give physical
demonstration of the fusion of those mineral substances. I know that
shells have been found within the body of veins in Germany; but, a
stratification of those materials in a vein was never heard of before,
so far as I know.]

"Ces _fentes_ se sont faites, et ont ete remplies, dans la _mer_;
puisque les matieres qui les remplissent sont de la classe de ses depots
tres connoissables, et qu'il contiennent des _depouilles marines_. Mais
ce qui embarrasse alors c'est que les autres _filons_ ne soyent pas dans
le meme cas. N'est ce point la encore un indice, que ces _fentes_ out
ete d'abord et principalement remplies de matieres, poussees du fond par
la meme force qui secouoit les montagnes[28].

[Note 28: But what is this power by which matter is to be forced from
the bottom of the sea to the top of the mountains? For, unless we can
form some idea of that power which, as a cause, we ascribe to the
perceived effect, we either say nothing to the purpose, or we employ a
preternatural cause. It is not sufficient to imagine a power capable of
raising from the bottom of the sea the materials deposited in the abyss;
it is also necessary to find a power capable of softening bodies which
are hard, and of thus consolidating those masses which are formed of
loose or unconnected materials. Such a power, indeed, the present theory
assumes; and, so far as this shall be implied in the supposition of our
author, it will thus have received a certain conformation.]

"Ce _filon_ n'est pas le seul dans le _Hartz_ qui donne des signes
_marins_. Il y en