- THEORY of the EARTH; or an INVESTIGATION of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe. By JAMES HUTTON, M.D. F.R.S. EDIN. and Member of the Royal Academy of Agriculture at Paris PART I Prospect of the Subject to be treated of. WHEN we trace the parts of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those ...www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/essays/Hutton.htm