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Side 18
... says the author , " in the dwarf and inferior forms of the marsupials and insectivora , not any of the honest mammals have yet appeared . " But while attaching no importance to the discoveries in the Middle Purbeck , except in regard of ...
... says the author , " in the dwarf and inferior forms of the marsupials and insectivora , not any of the honest mammals have yet appeared . " But while attaching no importance to the discoveries in the Middle Purbeck , except in regard of ...
Side 19
... says Sir Roderick , in a passage occurring shortly after that we have quoted , " Let me entreat the reader not to be led by the reasoning of the ablest physiologist , or by an appeal to minute structural affinities , to impugn the clear ...
... says Sir Roderick , in a passage occurring shortly after that we have quoted , " Let me entreat the reader not to be led by the reasoning of the ablest physiologist , or by an appeal to minute structural affinities , to impugn the clear ...
Side 21
... says Professor Owen , in his last Address to the British Association , " has the manifestation of creative force been limited to one epoch of time . " This , translated into fact , can only mean that the vertebrate type had its ...
... says Professor Owen , in his last Address to the British Association , " has the manifestation of creative force been limited to one epoch of time . " This , translated into fact , can only mean that the vertebrate type had its ...
Side 24
... say that geographical changes took place , bringing with them the denizens of different climates , and adapted for different modes of life . The same Almighty Power which now pro- vides habitats and conditions suitable for the wants of ...
... say that geographical changes took place , bringing with them the denizens of different climates , and adapted for different modes of life . The same Almighty Power which now pro- vides habitats and conditions suitable for the wants of ...
Side 25
... says : " Near Maestricht , in Holland , the chalk , with flint , is covered by a kind of chalky rock , with gray flints , over which are loose , yellowish lime- stones , sometimes almost made up of fossils . " Similar beds also occur at ...
... says : " Near Maestricht , in Holland , the chalk , with flint , is covered by a kind of chalky rock , with gray flints , over which are loose , yellowish lime- stones , sometimes almost made up of fossils . " Similar beds also occur at ...
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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.