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Pagina 16
... base of the Old Red Sandston but its fish having been found decidedly associated with Sil rian organisms , this idea has been abandoned . 1 See the lately published edition of Sir Roderick Murchison's " Siluria chap . ii . p . 26 ...
... base of the Old Red Sandston but its fish having been found decidedly associated with Sil rian organisms , this idea has been abandoned . 1 See the lately published edition of Sir Roderick Murchison's " Siluria chap . ii . p . 26 ...
Pagina 18
... base of the Lias . I must be permitted , on this point , to quote the authority of Sir Roderick Murchison , as one of the safest and most cautious exponents of geological fact . " In that deposit , " says he , referring to the Keuper ...
... base of the Lias . I must be permitted , on this point , to quote the authority of Sir Roderick Murchison , as one of the safest and most cautious exponents of geological fact . " In that deposit , " says he , referring to the Keuper ...
Pagina 52
... base never dries at eb precluded any accession to the land , presents around i margin a double coast line , - the line at present washe by the waves , and a line now covered with grass , or wavin with shrubs , or skirted by walls of ...
... base never dries at eb precluded any accession to the land , presents around i margin a double coast line , - the line at present washe by the waves , and a line now covered with grass , or wavin with shrubs , or skirted by walls of ...
Pagina 53
... base are repetitions of the same phenomena , save that the upper escarpment and upper plane are some- what softer in their outline than the lower , an effect of the wear of the elements , and of the accumulation of the vegetable mould ...
... base are repetitions of the same phenomena , save that the upper escarpment and upper plane are some- what softer in their outline than the lower , an effect of the wear of the elements , and of the accumulation of the vegetable mould ...
Pagina 54
... base , form , as I have said , well - marked features in the scenery of the island . Geology may be properly regarded as the science of landscape : it is to the landscape painte what anatomy is to the historic one or to the sculptor ...
... base , form , as I have said , well - marked features in the scenery of the island . Geology may be properly regarded as the science of landscape : it is to the landscape painte what anatomy is to the historic one or to the sculptor ...
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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.