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Pagina 27
... with Pteraspis , an organism characteristically Silurian . That which bears . most upon the subject before us , is the now perfectly ascer- - tained imprint of the footsteps of large reptiles in the PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE . 27.
... with Pteraspis , an organism characteristically Silurian . That which bears . most upon the subject before us , is the now perfectly ascer- - tained imprint of the footsteps of large reptiles in the PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE . 27.
Pagina 32
... bear upon the subject before me ; and this , I believe , is the only way to make any approximation to a cor- rect opinion . In truth , the science of Geology is itself in that condition , that no fact ought to be accepted as a basis for ...
... bear upon the subject before me ; and this , I believe , is the only way to make any approximation to a cor- rect opinion . In truth , the science of Geology is itself in that condition , that no fact ought to be accepted as a basis for ...
Pagina 35
... my husband himself would if he were yet with us to preserve the integrity of the text , and , in dealing with what is new , to bring to bear upon it the same unswerv ing rectitude of purpose in valuing and accepting every iota.
... my husband himself would if he were yet with us to preserve the integrity of the text , and , in dealing with what is new , to bring to bear upon it the same unswerv ing rectitude of purpose in valuing and accepting every iota.
Pagina 36
... bear upon it . If , however , the reader is led to inquire for himself , I trust he will find that these powers , such as they are , have been used in no light or frivolous spirit , but with a deep , and somewhat of an adequate , sense ...
... bear upon it . If , however , the reader is led to inquire for himself , I trust he will find that these powers , such as they are , have been used in no light or frivolous spirit , but with a deep , and somewhat of an adequate , sense ...
Pagina 46
... bears . There exists what seems to be sufficient evidence that the two extinct ani- mals named the Irish elk and native ox were contemporary with the primitive hunters of the stone period : the 46 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
... bears . There exists what seems to be sufficient evidence that the two extinct ani- mals named the Irish elk and native ox were contemporary with the primitive hunters of the stone period : the 46 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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.