«§ 346. Pour résumer en peu de mots les idées que je me forme de la structure du Jura; je dirai que je crois qu'il est composé de différentes chaînes à-peu-près paralleles entr'elles, et à celles des Alpes, mais tirant un peu plus du nord au midi: que la chaine la plus élevée et la plus voisine des Alpes, a eu originairement la forme d'une dos d'âne dont les pentes partent du faite, recouvrent les flancs, et descendent jusques au pieds de la montagne: que les chaînes suivantes du coté de l'ouest, sont composées de montagnes graduellement moins élevées et moins étendues; que les couches de ces montagnes ont généralement la forme de voûtes entières ou de moitié de voûtes; et qu'elles viennent mourir dans des plaines, qui ont pour base des bancs calcaires tout à fait horizontaux de la même nature que ceux du mont Jura, et qui furent peut-être anciennement continus avec eux.» Our author has here described most accurately, not only the present shape and positions of particular strata, but the general shape and structure of the land him the Saleve and Jura, which are not in the Alps, to the plains of France, where the strata are generally in a more horizontal situation. Having thus seen the structure of what are commonly termed the secondary mountains, a structure which prevails generally in all parts of the land, at least in all that which is not primitive in the estimation of naturalists, who suppose a different origin to different parts, it will now be thought a most interesting view of nature, to see the same accurate examination of the structure of the earth, from those secondary mountains of Geneva to the center of the Alps, where we find such a variety of mountains of different materials, (whether they shall be called primitive or secondary) and where such opportunity is found for seeing the structure of those mountains. For, if we shall find the same principles, here prevailing in the formation of those supposed primitive mountains as are found over all the earth in general, and as are employed in fashioning or shaping every species of material, it will be allowed us to conclude, that, in this situation of things, we have what is general in the formation of land, notwithstanding imaginary distinctions of certain parts which had been formed one way, and of others which are supposed to be operations of an opposite nature.