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Side 54
... scarce less marked in the neighborhood of Cromarty , and on the opposite shore of the Cromarty Frith , in the parish of Nigg . It runs along by much the greater portion of the eastern coast of Sutherland ; and forms at the head of Loch ...
... scarce less marked in the neighborhood of Cromarty , and on the opposite shore of the Cromarty Frith , in the parish of Nigg . It runs along by much the greater portion of the eastern coast of Sutherland ; and forms at the head of Loch ...
Side 55
... scarce refer to the scenery of our mosses , - sombre , lake - like tracts , divested , however , of the cheerful gleam of the water , that so often fatigue the eye of the traveller among our mountains , but which at that season when the ...
... scarce refer to the scenery of our mosses , - sombre , lake - like tracts , divested , however , of the cheerful gleam of the water , that so often fatigue the eye of the traveller among our mountains , but which at that season when the ...
Side 61
... scarce have been founded on any mere resemblance , seems worthy of special notice . Loch Ewe , in Ross - shire , one of our salt sea lochs , receives the waters of Loch Maree , a noble fresh - water lake , about eighteen miles in length ...
... scarce have been founded on any mere resemblance , seems worthy of special notice . Loch Ewe , in Ross - shire , one of our salt sea lochs , receives the waters of Loch Maree , a noble fresh - water lake , about eighteen miles in length ...
Side 62
... scarce fail to represent their respective periods of exposure , had we but a given number of years , histor- ically determined , to set off against the average measure- ment of the recent excavations . Even wanting that , how- ever , it ...
... scarce fail to represent their respective periods of exposure , had we but a given number of years , histor- ically determined , to set off against the average measure- ment of the recent excavations . Even wanting that , how- ever , it ...
Side 69
... scarce any fossils , save fragments of the older organisms derived from the rocks beneath ; but in both the north and south of Scotland - in Caithness , for instance , and in Wigtonshire - it con- tains numerous shells , which , both in ...
... scarce any fossils , save fragments of the older organisms derived from the rocks beneath ; but in both the north and south of Scotland - in Caithness , for instance , and in Wigtonshire - it con- tains numerous shells , which , both in ...
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.