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Side 45
... thick water - mosses , began to spring up ; one generation budded and decayed over the ruins of another ; and what had been an overturned forest became in the course of years a deep morass , an unsightly but permanent monument of the ...
... thick water - mosses , began to spring up ; one generation budded and decayed over the ruins of another ; and what had been an overturned forest became in the course of years a deep morass , an unsightly but permanent monument of the ...
Side 51
... thick beds of stone , there may be detected fields and orchards , cottages , manor - houses , and churches , the me- morials of nations that have perished , and of a condition of things and a stage of society that have forever passed ...
... thick beds of stone , there may be detected fields and orchards , cottages , manor - houses , and churches , the me- morials of nations that have perished , and of a condition of things and a stage of society that have forever passed ...
Side 78
... thick , are often of considerable horizontal extent , has furnished sufficient pressure and me- chanical power to groove the ledges of soft sandstone . " - Thus far Sir Charles . The boulder - clay is found in Scotland from deep beneath ...
... thick , are often of considerable horizontal extent , has furnished sufficient pressure and me- chanical power to groove the ledges of soft sandstone . " - Thus far Sir Charles . The boulder - clay is found in Scotland from deep beneath ...
Side 82
... thick in the dir tion of the stroke . And so it is here . The rubbings the great Scotch whetstone , acted upon by the innume able gravers and chisels whetted upon it , and held dow or steadied by the icebergs , have been carried in the ...
... thick in the dir tion of the stroke . And so it is here . The rubbings the great Scotch whetstone , acted upon by the innume able gravers and chisels whetted upon it , and held dow or steadied by the icebergs , have been carried in the ...
Side 101
... thick together , and when umbrageous with the graceful birch , or waving from top to base with the light fronds of the lady - fern and the bracken , they often compose scenes of a soft and yet wild loveli- ness , from which the ...
... thick together , and when umbrageous with the graceful birch , or waving from top to base with the light fronds of the lady - fern and the bracken , they often compose scenes of a soft and yet wild loveli- ness , from which 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.