Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 sider |
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... once asso- ciates something concerning rocks and minerals and the structure of the earth . The science , however , has much more to do than merely describe the rocks and minerals that compose the stony crust . These rocks , subjected to ...
... once asso- ciates something concerning rocks and minerals and the structure of the earth . The science , however , has much more to do than merely describe the rocks and minerals that compose the stony crust . These rocks , subjected to ...
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... once new substances for research , and new problems for solution ; and , above all , to botany and zoology , as having extended immeasurably their domains , and interwoven more closely their cosmical connections . A century ago the ...
... once new substances for research , and new problems for solution ; and , above all , to botany and zoology , as having extended immeasurably their domains , and interwoven more closely their cosmical connections . A century ago the ...
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... once that search was hopeless ; while from the same cause immense toil has been spent on scattered sands and gravels , which a little skill could have traced up to the parent veins from which , in the course of ages , they had been ...
... once that search was hopeless ; while from the same cause immense toil has been spent on scattered sands and gravels , which a little skill could have traced up to the parent veins from which , in the course of ages , they had been ...
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... once anything irregular or cata- clysmal were admitted into our reasonings , there would be an end to all satisfactory argument and certainty of result . Admitting this uniformity - and not a step in advance * Physical Geography , ' p ...
... once anything irregular or cata- clysmal were admitted into our reasonings , there would be an end to all satisfactory argument and certainty of result . Admitting this uniformity - and not a step in advance * Physical Geography , ' p ...
Side 39
... once an established certainty . No creature save man lights a fire - no creature save man ever lighted one ; and the tes- timony of these wood - ashes as to the existence of a cave- dwelling race is as conclusive as if we had witnessed ...
... once an established certainty . No creature save man lights a fire - no creature save man ever lighted one ; and the tes- timony of these wood - ashes as to the existence of a cave- dwelling race is as conclusive as if we had witnessed ...
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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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