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Side 23
... least , to lessen the distance , and , in some small measure , to bridge over the chasm , between Palæozoic and Secondary life . And yet , considering the vast change which then passed over our planet , —that all specific forms died out ...
... least , to lessen the distance , and , in some small measure , to bridge over the chasm , between Palæozoic and Secondary life . And yet , considering the vast change which then passed over our planet , —that all specific forms died out ...
Side 32
... least succeeded in furnishing the reader with such references few and simple when we once know where to find them as may enable him to decide upon this important matter for himself . If I have learned anything in the course of the ...
... least succeeded in furnishing the reader with such references few and simple when we once know where to find them as may enable him to decide upon this important matter for himself . If I have learned anything in the course of the ...
Side 38
... least the historian of the merely literary type , or to the antiquary of the purely documentary one , all is darkness . " At one stride comes the dark . " The period is at once reached which we find so happily described by Coleridge ...
... least the historian of the merely literary type , or to the antiquary of the purely documentary one , all is darkness . " At one stride comes the dark . " The period is at once reached which we find so happily described by Coleridge ...
Side 41
... least Western Europe , possess a literature during its bronze period . Of course , without letters there can be no history ; and even if a detailed history of such uncivilized nations did exist , what would be its value ? " Milton did ...
... least Western Europe , possess a literature during its bronze period . Of course , without letters there can be no history ; and even if a detailed history of such uncivilized nations did exist , what would be its value ? " Milton did ...
Side 43
... least buried forests , as on the Norfolk coast , at Cromer and Happisburgh , that are more ancient than the drift - clays and gravels ; whereas , so far as is yet known , there are none of our Scotch mosses that do not overlie the drift ...
... least buried forests , as on the Norfolk coast , at Cromer and Happisburgh , that are more ancient than the drift - clays and gravels ; whereas , so far as is yet known , there are none of our Scotch mosses that do not overlie the drift ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus cones contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth district earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished ganoid geological geologist glacier gneiss granite gravel grooved Gulf Stream Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred island lake land least LECTURES ON GEOLOGY Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptiles resemble rising river rocks sand scarce scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
Populære avsnitt
Side 211 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Side 349 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Side 195 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Side 222 - Traced like a map, the landscape lies In cultured beauty stretching wide ; There, Pentland's green acclivities ; There, Ocean, with its azure tide ; There, Arthur's seat ; and gleaming through Thy southern wing, Dunedin blue ! While, in the orient, Lammer's daughters, A distant giant range are seen, — North Berwick Law, with cone of green, And Bass amid the waters.
Side 137 - Shakespeare's name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms; 170 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Side 282 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Gray birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.