If nature in her subterraneous abodes is provided with a force that could burst asunder the massy pavement of the globe, and place the fragments upright upon their edges, could she not, by the same effort, raise them from the greatest depths of the sea, to the highest elevation of the land?

The Works of John Playfair (Volume 1), Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, Paragraph 46 (p. 68)