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 xiv
... Originals of two Characters in " The Pirate " - Bessie Millie Garden of Gow , the " Pirate " — Childhood's Scene of Byron's " Torquil " " The Author's Introduction to his Sister - A German Visitor -German and Scotch Sabbath - keeping ...
... Originals of two Characters in " The Pirate " - Bessie Millie Garden of Gow , the " Pirate " — Childhood's Scene of Byron's " Torquil " " The Author's Introduction to his Sister - A German Visitor -German and Scotch Sabbath - keeping ...
Pagina 53
... original Oölitic grit in which they had been locked up , in , I doubt not , their present fossil state , ere their upheaval , through Plutonic agency , from their deep- sea bottom . The annual rings of the wood , which are quite as ...
... original Oölitic grit in which they had been locked up , in , I doubt not , their present fossil state , ere their upheaval , through Plutonic agency , from their deep- sea bottom . The annual rings of the wood , which are quite as ...
Pagina 54
... original wood preserved uninjured . There still are those medullary rays entire that communi- cated between the pith and the outside , there still the ring of thickened cells that indicated the yearly check which the growth received ...
... original wood preserved uninjured . There still are those medullary rays entire that communi- cated between the pith and the outside , there still the ring of thickened cells that indicated the yearly check which the growth received ...
Pagina 69
... original color . They are small , thin , triangular , much resembling in form some specimens of the Ostrea deltoidea , but greatly less in size . The nearest resembling shell in Sowerby is the Ostrea acuminata , — an oyster of the clay ...
... original color . They are small , thin , triangular , much resembling in form some specimens of the Ostrea deltoidea , but greatly less in size . The nearest resembling shell in Sowerby is the Ostrea acuminata , — an oyster of the clay ...
Pagina 75
... original state , and mark- ing how nearly the recent shells that lay embedded in it resembled the extinct ones that had lain in it so long before , when I became aware of a peculiar sound that it yielded to the tread , as my companions ...
... original state , and mark- ing how nearly the recent shells that lay embedded in it resembled the extinct ones that had lain in it so long before , when I became aware of a peculiar sound that it yielded to the tread , as my companions ...
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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...