 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1806 - 582 pagina’s
...directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We often said to ourselves. What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the schi«tus on which we stood was yet at the bottom of the sea, and when the sand-stone before us was... | |
 | 1806 - 614 pagina’s
...often said to ourselves. What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of tlie«e rocks, and of the long interval which separated their formation, had we actually ¿em them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? We felt ourselves necessarily carried back to the time... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pagina’s
...directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We often said to ourselves, What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...schistus on which we stood was yet at the bottom of out. rr. BOOK: OF NATURE LAID OPEN. the sea, and when the sandstone before us was only beginning to... | |
 | 1845 - 996 pagina’s
...said to ourselves, what clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these rocks, had we actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? We Jelt ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the schistus on which we stood was yet at... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1848 - 610 pagina’s
...directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We often said to ourselves, what clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these rocks, and of the long interval which separated these formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? We felt ourselves... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pagina’s
...till now, been directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We said, What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these rocks, and of the long interval which separated these formations, Lad we actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? We felt ourselvet... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 556 pagina’s
...vertical strata, now known to be of Silurian age, and which often exhibit a ripple-marked surface.f itr^ well exposed at the headland called the Siccar Point,...long interval which separated their formation, had we actuallv seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? We felt ourselves necessarily carried back... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1860 - 718 pagina’s
...large pieces of the schist, some round and others angular, are united by an arenaceous cement. " AVhat clearer evidence/' exclaims Playfair, " could we have...ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the schist us on which we stood was yet at the bottom of the sea, and when the sandstone before us was... | |
 | Edinburgh Geological Society - 1885 - 680 pagina’s
...by the spectacle before them. " We often said to ourselves," he continues, " What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bottom of the deep ? We felt ourselves necessarily carried back to the time when the schistus on which... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1897 - 326 pagina’s
...directly authenticated by the testimony of the senses. We often said to ourselves, what clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these...actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? . . . The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time; and while we listened... | |
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We often said to ourselves, What clearer evidence could we have had of the different formation of these rocks, and of the long interval . which separated their formation, had we actually seen them emerging from the bosom of the deep ? We felt ourselves... 
