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Side 17
... living analogue of one very interesting genus is the kangaroo rat , which inhabits the prairies and scrub - jungles of Australia , feeding on plants and scratched - up roots . Between the English Stonesfield or Great Oolite , in which ...
... living analogue of one very interesting genus is the kangaroo rat , which inhabits the prairies and scrub - jungles of Australia , feeding on plants and scratched - up roots . Between the English Stonesfield or Great Oolite , in which ...
Side 47
... living among our Highland glens even in his days , as late as the year 1526 ; but there rests a shadow of doubt on the state- ment . It is unquestionable , however , that the Gaelic name of the creature , Lasleathin , or broad - tail ...
... living among our Highland glens even in his days , as late as the year 1526 ; but there rests a shadow of doubt on the state- ment . It is unquestionable , however , that the Gaelic name of the creature , Lasleathin , or broad - tail ...
Side 76
... living on our coasts , though it still exists in considerable abundance in the seas of Greenland ; and sev- eral of its neighbors in the clay , such as Tellina proxima and Astarte Borealis , are of the same northern character . Nay , in ...
... living on our coasts , though it still exists in considerable abundance in the seas of Greenland ; and sev- eral of its neighbors in the clay , such as Tellina proxima and Astarte Borealis , are of the same northern character . Nay , in ...
Side 82
... wild , beat with perpetual storm Of whirlwind and dire hail . " " We might expect , " says Professor Sedgwick , " that as we come close upon living nature , the characters of our old LECTURES ON GEOLOGY . 88 records would grow legible and.
... wild , beat with perpetual storm Of whirlwind and dire hail . " " We might expect , " says Professor Sedgwick , " that as we come close upon living nature , the characters of our old LECTURES ON GEOLOGY . 88 records would grow legible and.
Side 85
... living , and of the changes which had passed over them when dead ; and I was enabled , with little assistance from brother geologists , to give a his- tory of the system to the world more than ten years ago . The boulder - clay , on the ...
... living , and of the changes which had passed over them when dead ; and I was enabled , with little assistance from brother geologists , to give a his- tory of the system to the world more than ten years ago . The boulder - clay , on the ...
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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.