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Side vi
... regarded as the Remains of Giants - Legends concerning them Marine Deposits beneath the Pre - Glacial Forests of England - Objections of Theologians to the Geological Theory of the Antiquity of the Earth and of the Human Race considered ...
... regarded as the Remains of Giants - Legends concerning them Marine Deposits beneath the Pre - Glacial Forests of England - Objections of Theologians to the Geological Theory of the Antiquity of the Earth and of the Human Race considered ...
Side viii
... regarded as one , under the name of the New Red Sandstone - The Coal Measures in Scotland next in Order of Succession to the Triassic System - Differences in the Organisms of the two Systems Extent of the Coal Measures of Scotland ...
... regarded as one , under the name of the New Red Sandstone - The Coal Measures in Scotland next in Order of Succession to the Triassic System - Differences in the Organisms of the two Systems Extent of the Coal Measures of Scotland ...
Side 10
... regarded these papers as an important part of the volume , and de- manding , from their intrinsic merits , a distinctive title . BOSTON , APRIL , 1859 . INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE . THE.
... regarded these papers as an important part of the volume , and de- manding , from their intrinsic merits , a distinctive title . BOSTON , APRIL , 1859 . INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE . THE.
Side 14
... regarded by beginners in another aspect , one very different from that in which Wordsworth looked upon it when he thanked Heaven that the covert nooks of nature reported not of the geologist's hands , " the man who --- classed his ...
... regarded by beginners in another aspect , one very different from that in which Wordsworth looked upon it when he thanked Heaven that the covert nooks of nature reported not of the geologist's hands , " the man who --- classed his ...
Side 37
... regarded as ending where human history begins . The most ancient portions of the one piece on to the most modern portions of the other . But their line of junction is , if I may so express myself , not an abrupt , but a shaded line ; so ...
... regarded as ending where human history begins . The most ancient portions of the one piece on to the most modern portions of the other . But their line of junction is , if I may so express myself , not an abrupt , but a shaded line ; so ...
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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.