The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the HebridesGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 524 pagina's |
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Pagina 24
... effects of a late winter storm : many great stones , one of them of several tons weight , had been tossed up a precipice twenty or thirty feet high , and laid fairly on the green sward . " There is something farther worthy of notice in ...
... effects of a late winter storm : many great stones , one of them of several tons weight , had been tossed up a precipice twenty or thirty feet high , and laid fairly on the green sward . " There is something farther worthy of notice in ...
Pagina 34
... effect's sake been the object . On landing on the exposed shelf to which we had fastened our halser , I found the origin of the sand interestingly exhibited . The hollows of the rock , a rough trachyte , with a surface like that of a ...
... effect's sake been the object . On landing on the exposed shelf to which we had fastened our halser , I found the origin of the sand interestingly exhibited . The hollows of the rock , a rough trachyte , with a surface like that of a ...
Pagina 46
... effect arises rather from its peculiar form , and the com- manding elevation which it occupies , than from its positive altitude . Viewed in one direction , it presents a long irregular wall , crowning the summit of the highest hill ...
... effect arises rather from its peculiar form , and the com- manding elevation which it occupies , than from its positive altitude . Viewed in one direction , it presents a long irregular wall , crowning the summit of the highest hill ...
Pagina 47
... effect ; I have , besides , a few curious touches to lay in , which seem hitherto to have escaped observation and the pencil ; and in these several circumstances must lie my apology for adding one sketch more to the sketches existing ...
... effect ; I have , besides , a few curious touches to lay in , which seem hitherto to have escaped observation and the pencil ; and in these several circumstances must lie my apology for adding one sketch more to the sketches existing ...
Pagina 48
... effect which we see brought out in tasteful pencil sketches and good line engravings . We approached it this day from the shore in the direction in which the eminence it stands upon assumes the pyramidal form , and itself the tower ...
... effect which we see brought out in tasteful pencil sketches and good line engravings . We approached it this day from the shore in the direction in which the eminence it stands upon assumes the pyramidal form , and itself the tower ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance Banffshire beach Belemnite Betsey bones boulder boulder-clay broken Caithness chalcedony character clay cliffs coast Coccosteus color Conglomerate Cromarty curious dark deep deposit detached Diplopterus Dipterus district Dunnet Head Eigg exhibit existing fish flat formation fossils fragments Free Church Frith geological geologist gneiss granite gray green ground height Highlands hills hollow Holoptychius hundred feet ichthyolite beds inches island Isle Kirkwall land least length Lias Liasic loch Lower Old Red mass miles minister Moray morning nearly neighborhood nodule numerous occur Old Red Sandstone Oölite Orkney Ornsay Osteolepis passed peculiar piece pitchstone plates Portree precipices present quarry rampart resembling rising rock sand scales scarce Scotland Scuir seems seen shale shells shore side Skye slopes Small Isles species specimens stone strata Strathpeffer stratum stream surface thick thickly Thurso tide tion upper valley vessel wall
Populaire passages
Pagina 388 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Pagina 236 - Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes; • They moved in tracks of shining white; And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Pagina 41 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle...
Pagina 233 - Europe, in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen; nay\ to such a degree was my curiosity raised, that having read the controversies of some great men concerning the antiquities of Egypt, I made a voyage to Grand Cairo, on purpose to take the measure of a pyramid...
Pagina 134 - Seven golden talents to perfection wrought, A silver bowl that held a copious draught, And twelve large vessels of unmingled wine, Mellifluous, undecaying, and divine! Which now, some ages from his race conceal'd, The hoary sire in gratitude reveal'd.
Pagina 319 - The human animal is the only one which is naked, and the only one which can clothe itself. This is one of the properties which renders him an animal of all climates, and of all seasons. He can adapt the warmth or lightness of his covering to the temperature of his habitation. Had he been born with a fleece upon his back, although he might have been comforted by its warmth in...