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Pagina vi
... Animals of the Pre - Glacial Periods - Elephants ' Tusks found in Scotland and England regarded as the Remains of Giants - Legends concerning them Marine Deposits beneath the Pre - Glacial Forests of England - Objections of Theologians ...
... Animals of the Pre - Glacial Periods - Elephants ' Tusks found in Scotland and England regarded as the Remains of Giants - Legends concerning them Marine Deposits beneath the Pre - Glacial Forests of England - Objections of Theologians ...
Pagina vii
... Animal Organisms- A Walk into the Wilds of the Oolite Hills of Sutherland , - - . 168-202 LECTURE FIFTH . The Lias of the Hill of Eathie - -- The Triassic System - Its -The Beauty of its shores -Its Deposits , how formed Their Animal ...
... Animal Organisms- A Walk into the Wilds of the Oolite Hills of Sutherland , - - . 168-202 LECTURE FIFTH . The Lias of the Hill of Eathie - -- The Triassic System - Its -The Beauty of its shores -Its Deposits , how formed Their Animal ...
Pagina viii
... Animal Life in the Formation sudden and violent The Asterolepis and Coccosteus The Silurian the Oldest of the Geologic Systems - That in which Animal and Vegetable Life had their earliest beginnings The Theologians and Geologists on the ...
... Animal Life in the Formation sudden and violent The Asterolepis and Coccosteus The Silurian the Oldest of the Geologic Systems - That in which Animal and Vegetable Life had their earliest beginnings The Theologians and Geologists on the ...
Pagina 16
... animal life have been tected in the shape of annelides or sand - boring worms , throughout the whole range of the Silurians , where shell - f and crustaceans , with inferior forms of life abounded , traces of fish , the lowest ...
... animal life have been tected in the shape of annelides or sand - boring worms , throughout the whole range of the Silurians , where shell - f and crustaceans , with inferior forms of life abounded , traces of fish , the lowest ...
Pagina 19
... animal is , therefore , far removed from the embryonic archetype , such an argument disturbs the order of succession of classes , as seen in the crust of the earth . " So far from disturbing the order of succession , 20 INTRODUCTORY ...
... animal is , therefore , far removed from the embryonic archetype , such an argument disturbs the order of succession of classes , as seen in the crust of the earth . " So far from disturbing the order of succession , 20 INTRODUCTORY ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus cones contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth district earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished ganoid geological geologist glacier gneiss granite gravel grooved Gulf Stream Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred island lake land least LECTURES ON GEOLOGY Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptiles resemble rising river rocks sand scarce scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
Populaire passages
Pagina 211 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Pagina 349 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 195 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Pagina 222 - Traced like a map, the landscape lies In cultured beauty stretching wide ; There, Pentland's green acclivities ; There, Ocean, with its azure tide ; There, Arthur's seat ; and gleaming through Thy southern wing, Dunedin blue ! While, in the orient, Lammer's daughters, A distant giant range are seen, — North Berwick Law, with cone of green, And Bass amid the waters.
Pagina 137 - Shakespeare's name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms; 170 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Pagina 282 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Gray birch and aspen wept beneath ; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock ; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.