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Side 63
... numerous caves ranged in a double row , the lower row that of the exist- ing coast , the upper that of the old one ; and I have examined both rows with some little degree of care . The deepest of the recent caves measures , from the ...
... numerous caves ranged in a double row , the lower row that of the exist- ing coast , the upper that of the old one ; and I have examined both rows with some little degree of care . The deepest of the recent caves measures , from the ...
Side 65
... numerous class of events of a similar char- acter , it enables us to conceive of the last great geological change of which our country was the subject . We imag- ine a forest - covered land , marked by the bold , command- ing features ...
... numerous class of events of a similar char- acter , it enables us to conceive of the last great geological change of which our country was the subject . We imag- ine a forest - covered land , marked by the bold , command- ing features ...
Side 67
... numerous divergent channels , with py- ramidal peaks between ; and , thus combining the perpen- dicularity of true cliffs with the rain - scooped furrows of a yielding soil , they present eccentricities of aspect which strike , by their ...
... numerous divergent channels , with py- ramidal peaks between ; and , thus combining the perpen- dicularity of true cliffs with the rain - scooped furrows of a yielding soil , they present eccentricities of aspect which strike , by their ...
Side 69
... numerous shells , which , both in their species and their state of keeping , throw light on the origin of the formation . But of that more anon . Let me first remark , that the materials of the level marginal strip of ancient sea ...
... numerous shells , which , both in their species and their state of keeping , throw light on the origin of the formation . But of that more anon . Let me first remark , that the materials of the level marginal strip of ancient sea ...
Side 81
... numerous pebbles and boulders striated longitudinally . That the point where the gulf and arctic currents come in contact should now lie so far to the west , is a consequence of the present dis- position of the arctic and western ...
... numerous pebbles and boulders striated longitudinally . That the point where the gulf and arctic currents come in contact should now lie so far to the west , is a consequence of the present dis- position of the arctic and western ...
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.