 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1848 - 478 pagina’s
...carboniferous rocks may have been formed. The heat, perhaps, may not have been excessive when the coal-measure originated, but the entire absence of frost, with...to flourish in latitudes far distant from the line. The frequent submergence of masses of vegetable matter like the morass, beneath seas or estuaries,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pagina’s
...formed. The heat, perhaps, may not have been excessive when the coal measures originated ; but the 29 W entire absence of frost, with a warm and damp atmosphere,...and wide, invading the plains, like some European peat mosses when they burst ; and the frequent submergence of these masses of vegetable matter beneath... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pagina’s
...carbouiferous rocks may have been formed The heat, perhaps, may not have been excessive when the coal measures originated, but the entire absence of frost, with...latitudes far distant from the line. Huge swamps in » rainy climate, standing above the level of the surrounding firm land, and supporta: a dense forest,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1876 - 452 pagina’s
...acorus near to them. These same bears are said to kill hogs, and even cows. There are also wild-cats, and occasionally a solitary wolf, in the morass. That...level of the surrounding firm land, and supporting a deuse forest, may have spread far and wide, invading the plains, like some European peat-mosses when... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pagina’s
...heat, perhaps, may not have been excessive when the coal-measures originated, but the entire abseuce of frost, with a warm and damp atmosphere, may have...land, and supporting a dense forest, may have spread fur and wide, invading the plains, like some European peat-mosses when they burst; and the frequent... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pagina’s
...rocks may have been formed. The heat, perhaps, may not have been excessive when the coal-measures 2 originated, but the entire absence of frost, with...forms to flourish in latitudes far distant from the line.8 Huge swamps in a rainy climate, standing above the level of the surrounding firm land, and supporting... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 pagina’s
...beautiful as fairyland." The bears inhabiting the swamp climb trees in search of acorns and gum-berries, breaking off large boughs of the oaks in order to...some European peat-mosses when they burst, and the frecjuent submergence of these masses of vegetable matter beneath seas or estuaries, as often as the... | |
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Dismal, already covering so many square miles of a low, level region, bordering the sea, and capable' of spreading itself indefinitely over the adjacent country, helps us greatly to conceive the manner in which the coal of the ancient carboniferous rocks... 