Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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Side 24
... course of ages , they had been disintegrated and borne away . It is also clear that in metalliferous dis- tricts , where there are several sets of veins of different ages , different contents , and different directions , there can be no ...
... course of ages , they had been disintegrated and borne away . It is also clear that in metalliferous dis- tricts , where there are several sets of veins of different ages , different contents , and different directions , there can be no ...
Side 27
... course in a general way ; but there is ever an amount of detail- quality of rock , dip , jointing , dykes , dislocations , and the like — which ordinary maps do not embrace , and which can only be safely ascertained by personal ...
... course in a general way ; but there is ever an amount of detail- quality of rock , dip , jointing , dykes , dislocations , and the like — which ordinary maps do not embrace , and which can only be safely ascertained by personal ...
Side 33
... course , in all our reasonings respecting the past , we must be guided by our knowledge of the present , and by faith in the even uniformity and continuity of the opera- tions of nature . We must believe , for instance , that frosts ...
... course , in all our reasonings respecting the past , we must be guided by our knowledge of the present , and by faith in the even uniformity and continuity of the opera- tions of nature . We must believe , for instance , that frosts ...
Side 35
... course , in geology , direct or primary evi- dence can have reference only to the existing . No one doubts or can doubt the formation of a new island by vol- canic agency when the event , as in the case of Santorino , is witnessed and ...
... course , in geology , direct or primary evi- dence can have reference only to the existing . No one doubts or can doubt the formation of a new island by vol- canic agency when the event , as in the case of Santorino , is witnessed and ...
Side 38
... course left for the geological reasoner ; and where the argument has been carefully conducted , the inference may be relied on as implicitly as any other infer- ence upon which we found our convictions . And yet , either from want of ...
... course left for the geological reasoner ; and where the argument has been carefully conducted , the inference may be relied on as implicitly as any other infer- ence upon which we found our convictions . And yet , either from want of ...
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Side 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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