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 iv
... geological knowledge at the time this work was penned . " The Cruise of the Betsey was written for that well - known paper the " Witness " during the period when a disputation productive of much bitter feeling waged between the Free and ...
... geological knowledge at the time this work was penned . " The Cruise of the Betsey was written for that well - known paper the " Witness " during the period when a disputation productive of much bitter feeling waged between the Free and ...
Pagina v
... Geologic Exploration and Discovery — At Anchor . 15 CHAPTER II . The Minister's Larder No Harbor - Eigg Shoes ... Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve Pinites Eiggensis - Its Description - Witham's Experiments on Fossil Pine ...
... Geologic Exploration and Discovery — At Anchor . 15 CHAPTER II . The Minister's Larder No Harbor - Eigg Shoes ... Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve Pinites Eiggensis - Its Description - Witham's Experiments on Fossil Pine ...
Pagina vi
... Geology " ------ A Geologist's Toast - Hoffman and his Fossil . 85 CHAPTER VI . Something for Non - geologists - Man Destructive A Better and Last Creation coming - A Rainy Sabbath The Meeting House - The Congregation - The Sermon in ...
... Geology " ------ A Geologist's Toast - Hoffman and his Fossil . 85 CHAPTER VI . Something for Non - geologists - Man Destructive A Better and Last Creation coming - A Rainy Sabbath The Meeting House - The Congregation - The Sermon in ...
Pagina vii
... Geology of Rum Its curious Character illustrated Rum famous for Blood- stones -Red Sandstones Scratchings " in the Rocks A Geological In- scription without a Key The Lizard Vitality broken into two - Illustra- tions - Speculation ...
... Geology of Rum Its curious Character illustrated Rum famous for Blood- stones -Red Sandstones Scratchings " in the Rocks A Geological In- scription without a Key The Lizard Vitality broken into two - Illustra- tions - Speculation ...
Pagina viii
... Geological Science in Cromarty -The Danes at Cromarty — The Danish Professor and the " Old Red Sandstone " — Harmonizing Tendencies of Science . 178 S CHAPTER XI . M Ichthyolite Beds An interesting Discovery - Two Storeys of Organic ...
... Geological Science in Cromarty -The Danes at Cromarty — The Danish Professor and the " Old Red Sandstone " — Harmonizing Tendencies of Science . 178 S CHAPTER XI . M Ichthyolite Beds An interesting Discovery - Two Storeys of Organic ...
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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...