e tous les cotes. L'une la
plus voisine de Bex, ou la plus meridionale, se nomme _Charpigny_,
l'autre _Saint Tryphon._

"Il paroit evident que ces rochers isoles au milieu de cette large
vallee sont de noyaux plus dures et plus solides qui ont resiste aux
causes destructrices par lesquelles cette vallee a ete creuse. Ils ne
sont cependant pas exactement de la meme nature, et surtout pas de la
meme structure; car celui de _Saint Tryphon_ est compose de couches
regulieres, horizontales ou a-peu-pres telles, tandis que celui de
_Charpigny_ a les siennes tres-inclinees et souvent dans un grand
desordre."

In M. de Saussure's Journey to the Alps, we have now seen a description
of the shape that had been given to things, by those operations in which
strata had been consolidated and elevated above the sea; nothing but
disorder and confusion seems to have presided in those causes, by which
this mass of continent had been exposed to the sight of men; and nature,
it would appear, had nothing in view besides the induration, the
consolidation, and the elevation of that mass into the snowy regions of
the atmosphere. From the descriptions now given, we see the operation of
the waters upon the surface of the earth; we perceive a regular system
of mountains and valleys, of rivulets and rivers, of fertile hills and
plains, of all that is valuable to the life of man, and that which is
still more valuable to man than life, viz. the knowledge of order in
the works of nature, and the perception of beauty in the objects that
surround him.

Let us now turn our view to distant regions, and see the effect of
causes which, being general, must be every where perceived.

CHAP. XII.

_The Theory illustrated, by adducing examples
from the different Quarters of the Globe_

The system which we investigate is universal on this earth; it hangs
upon, the growth of plants, and life of animals; it cannot have one
rule in Europe, and another in India, although there may be animals
and plants, the constitutions of which are properly adapted to certain
climates, and not to others. The operation of a central fire, in making
solid land on which the breathing animals are placed, and the influences
of the atmosphere, in making of that solid land loose soil for the
service of the vegetable system, are parts in the economy of this world
which must be every where distinguishable. But this the reader is not
to take upon my bare assertion; and I would wish