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DOLNJA TUZLA, or D0N ,ff SOLI
capital of the DolnjaTuzla district
gipsies
district
bishop
hospital
grain ,_ livestock, timber and coal, from the surrounding hills, where there is a colony of Hungarian miners; while the salt springs, owned by the state both at Dolnja, or Lower, and Gornja, or Upper Tuzla, 6 m. E., are without a rival in the Balkan Peninsula.Dolnja Tuzla was called by the Romans Ad Salinas. Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentions it, in the loth century, as Salenes; in other medieval documents it appears as Sou, Sow or Soli
of natural history, to which, after the death of Daubenton
Dolomieu's geological theories are remarkable for originality and boldness of conception. The materials constituting the primordial globe he held to have arranged themselves according to their specific gravities, so as to have constituted a fluid central sphere, a solid crust external to this, next a stratum of water, and lastly the atmosphere. Where water penetrated through the crust, solidification took place in the underlying fluid mass, which enlarging in consequence produced rifts in the superincumbent rocks. Water rushing down through the rifts became decomposed, and the resulting effervescence occasioned submarine volcanoes. The crust of the earth he believed to be continually increasing in thickness, owing to the deposition of aqueous rocks, and to the gradual solidification of the molten interior, so that the volcanic eruptions and other geological phenomena of former must have been of far greater magnitude and frequency than those of recent
See Lacepede, " Eloge historique de Dolomieu," in Memoires de la classe des sciences de l'Institut (1806); Thomson, in Annals of Philosophy, vol. xii. p. 161 (1808). _ End of Article: DOLNJA TUZLA, or D0N If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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