The Wonders of Geology: Or A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena, Volum 2H. G. Bohn, 1848 - 938 sider |
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abundant ancient animalcules animals appear basalt beautiful beds beneath bones brachiopodous calcareous carbonate carboniferous carboniferous system cells chalk character clay coal coal-field coal-measures colour composed conglomerates consist containing corals crater Crinoidea crustaceans Cumbrian deposits Derbyshire Devonian dikes earth elevated Encrinite England epoch erupted existence extinct feet ferns fishes flora Flustra formation fossil genera genus geological gneiss granite heat hills igneous islands Isle lava layers Lias Lign limestone Lyell marine marls mass matter Medals of Creation miles mineral mollusca mountain limestone Murchison nature numerous observed occur Oolite organic remains paleozoic peculiar Permian plants polyparia polypes present quartz R. I. Murchison reefs remarkable reptiles resembling sand sandstone schist shale shells Silurian Silurian System Sir R. I. skeleton species specimens stems stone strata structure substance surface teeth tentacula terrestrial tertiary thickness tion trap trees Trias Triassic Trilobites upper vegetable veins volcanic Wealden zoophytes
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Side 929 - And these are suns! — vast, central, living fires, — Lords of dependent systems, kings of worlds That wait as satellites upon their power, And flourish in their smile. Awake, my soul, And meditate the wonder ! Countless suns Blaze round thee, leading forth their countless worlds!
Side 931 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Side 703 - ... are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables, with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached.
Side 868 - But instead of this, we found ourselves on the edge of a steep precipice, with a vast plain before us, fifteen or sixteen miles in circumference, and sunk from 200 to 400 feet below its original level.
Side 923 - Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.
Side 703 - ... of their primeval life ; their scaly stems and bending branches with their delicate apparatus of foliage are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of countless ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in times of which these relics are the infallible historians.
Side 638 - The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards.
Side 890 - But if this cave were even destitute of that order and symmetry, that richness arising from multiplicity of parts, combined with greatness of dimensions, and simplicity of style which it possesses ; still the prolonged length, the twilight gloom, half concealing the playful and varying effects of reflected light, the echo of the measured surge as it rises and falls, the transparent green of the water, and the profound and fairy solitude of the whole scene, could not fail strongly to impress a mind...
Side 643 - Dust in the balance, atoms in the gale, Compared with these achievements in the deep, Were all the monuments of olden time, In days when there were giants on the earth : — Babel's stupendous folly, though it...
Side 869 - The existence of these conical craters led us to conclude, that the boiling caldron of lava before us did not form the focus of the volcano ; that this mass of melted lava was comparatively shallow ; and that the basin in which it was contained was separated, by a stratum of solid matter, from the great volcanic abyss, which constantly poured out its melted contents through these numerous craters into this upper reservoir.