John Playfair Quote

A river, of which the course is both serpentine and deeply excavated in the rock, is among the phenomena by which the slow waste of the land, and also the cause of that waste, are most directly pointed out.


Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, Section 101 (p. 104), Dover Publications, Inc. 1964


A river, of which the course is both serpentine and deeply excavated in the rock, is among the phenomena by which the slow waste of the land, and...

A river, of which the course is both serpentine and deeply excavated in the rock, is among the phenomena by which the slow waste of the land, and...

A river, of which the course is both serpentine and deeply excavated in the rock, is among the phenomena by which the slow waste of the land, and...

A river, of which the course is both serpentine and deeply excavated in the rock, is among the phenomena by which the slow waste of the land, and...