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 iii
... remains of her husband . Un- happily the excitement and anxiety naturally attaching to a re- vision of her husband's works proved over much for one suffer- ing under such recent trial , and from an affection of the brain and spine which ...
... remains of her husband . Un- happily the excitement and anxiety naturally attaching to a re- vision of her husband's works proved over much for one suffer- ing under such recent trial , and from an affection of the brain and spine which ...
Pagina v
... Remains of a Prostrate Forest . 31 CHAPTER III . Structure of the Scuir A stray Column The Piazza A buried Pine Forest the Foundation of the Scuir - Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve Pinites Eiggensis - Its Description - Witham's ...
... Remains of a Prostrate Forest . 31 CHAPTER III . Structure of the Scuir A stray Column The Piazza A buried Pine Forest the Foundation of the Scuir - Geological Poachers in a Fossil Preserve Pinites Eiggensis - Its Description - Witham's ...
Pagina vi
... Remains John Stewart's wonder at the Bones in the Stones - Description of the Bones Dragons , Gorgons , and Chimeras ” —Exploration and Discovery pur- sued -The Midway Shieling A Celtic Welcome Return to the Yacht " Array of Fossils new ...
... Remains John Stewart's wonder at the Bones in the Stones - Description of the Bones Dragons , Gorgons , and Chimeras ” —Exploration and Discovery pur- sued -The Midway Shieling A Celtic Welcome Return to the Yacht " Array of Fossils new ...
Pagina viii
... Remains in the Old Red Sandstone Ancient Ocean of Lower Old Red Two great Catastrophes Ancient Fish Scales Their skilful Mechanism displayed by examples - Bone Lips Arts of the Slater and Tiler as old as Old Red Sandstone Jet Trinkets ...
... Remains in the Old Red Sandstone Ancient Ocean of Lower Old Red Two great Catastrophes Ancient Fish Scales Their skilful Mechanism displayed by examples - Bone Lips Arts of the Slater and Tiler as old as Old Red Sandstone Jet Trinkets ...
Pagina xi
... Remains Sir Charles Lyell's reasoning — A Fact to the contrary Human Skull dug from a Clay - bank The Author's Change of Belief respecting Organic Remains of the Boulder - clay Shells from the Clay at Wick Questions respecting them ...
... Remains Sir Charles Lyell's reasoning — A Fact to the contrary Human Skull dug from a Clay - bank The Author's Change of Belief respecting Organic Remains of the Boulder - clay Shells from the Clay at Wick Questions respecting them ...
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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...