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... tion in Scotland In Geologic History all Ages contemporary - Amber the Resin of the Pinus Succinifer- A Vegetable Production of the Middle Tertiary - Ages Its Properties and Uses - The Masses of Insects VI CONTENTS .
... tion in Scotland In Geologic History all Ages contemporary - Amber the Resin of the Pinus Succinifer- A Vegetable Production of the Middle Tertiary - Ages Its Properties and Uses - The Masses of Insects VI CONTENTS .
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... tion , in a city where interest in scientific matters , and attend- ance upon lectures of a very superior order , are affairs of every - day occurrence . Rarely have I seen an audience so - profoundly absorbed . And at the conclusion of ...
... tion , in a city where interest in scientific matters , and attend- ance upon lectures of a very superior order , are affairs of every - day occurrence . Rarely have I seen an audience so - profoundly absorbed . And at the conclusion of ...
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... tion . Let no one imagine that because the bony characters in the jaw and teeth of the Plagiaulax of the Purbeck strata are such as the comparative anatomist might have expected to find among existing marsupials , and that the animal is ...
... tion . Let no one imagine that because the bony characters in the jaw and teeth of the Plagiaulax of the Purbeck strata are such as the comparative anatomist might have expected to find among existing marsupials , and that the animal is ...
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... tion at least , to lessen the distance , and , in some small measure , to bridge over the chasm , between Palæozoic and Secondary life . And yet , considering the vast change which then passed over our planet , —that all specific forms ...
... tion at least , to lessen the distance , and , in some small measure , to bridge over the chasm , between Palæozoic and Secondary life . And yet , considering the vast change which then passed over our planet , —that all specific forms ...
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... tion of the very difficult and arduous task which God , in His mysterious providence , has allotted me . To endeavor to do by these writings as my husband himself would if he were yet with us to preserve the integrity of the text , and ...
... tion of the very difficult and arduous task which God , in His mysterious providence , has allotted me . To endeavor to do by these writings as my husband himself would if he were yet with us to preserve the integrity of the text , and ...
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.