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Pagina 44
... hundred silver co of Rome was found ; in Dundaff Moor a number of si lar coins were found ; in Annan Moss , near the Rom Causeway , a Roman ornament of pure gold was found Roman camp - kettle was found eight feet deep under moss on the ...
... hundred silver co of Rome was found ; in Dundaff Moor a number of si lar coins were found ; in Annan Moss , near the Rom Causeway , a Roman ornament of pure gold was found Roman camp - kettle was found eight feet deep under moss on the ...
Pagina 52
... hundred yards in breadth . The continuous grassy bank is the old coast line ; and the gently sloping margin of green meadow is the strip of flat sea - beach along which the tides used to rise and fall twice every twenty - four hours ...
... hundred yards in breadth . The continuous grassy bank is the old coast line ; and the gently sloping margin of green meadow is the strip of flat sea - beach along which the tides used to rise and fall twice every twenty - four hours ...
Pagina 63
... hundred and fifty feet . And these depths , though much beyond the respective average depths of their several rows ... hundred years , and as the proportional period of the old coast line , three thousand three hundred more . Both sums ...
... hundred and fifty feet . And these depths , though much beyond the respective average depths of their several rows ... hundred years , and as the proportional period of the old coast line , three thousand three hundred more . Both sums ...
Pagina 64
... hundred and fifty - five years less than that assumed by the Masoretic chronology . The chronology of the Septuagint , which many have begun to deem the most adequate of the three , adds about five hundred and eighty - six years to the ...
... hundred and fifty - five years less than that assumed by the Masoretic chronology . The chronology of the Septuagint , which many have begun to deem the most adequate of the three , adds about five hundred and eighty - six years to the ...
Pagina 75
... hundreds upon its great bank ; nor do they finally disappear until they reach the fortieth , and , in at least one recorded instance , the thirty- sixth , degree of north latitude . I need scarce remind you that the temperature of a ...
... hundreds upon its great bank ; nor do they finally disappear until they reach the fortieth , and , in at least one recorded instance , the thirty- sixth , degree of north latitude . I need scarce remind you that the temperature of a ...
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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.