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Pagina 41
... instance , a certain style of sepulture , a certain type of cranium , a certain form of human dwellings , a certain class of personal ornaments , certain rude log - hollowed canoes , undressed standing stones , and curiously - poised ...
... instance , a certain style of sepulture , a certain type of cranium , a certain form of human dwellings , a certain class of personal ornaments , certain rude log - hollowed canoes , undressed standing stones , and curiously - poised ...
Pagina 46
... instance at least ( in Don- egal ) , with the remains of an ancient plough , and the wat- tles of a hedge six feet beneath the surface . In 1833 there was discovered in Drumkilen bog , near the north - east coast of the county of ...
... instance at least ( in Don- egal ) , with the remains of an ancient plough , and the wat- tles of a hedge six feet beneath the surface . In 1833 there was discovered in Drumkilen bog , near the north - east coast of the county of ...
Pagina 69
... instances , too , the rock on which the clay rests , if it be a trap , or a limestone , or a finely - grained sandstone ... instance , and in Wigtonshire - it con- tains numerous shells , which , both in their species and their state of ...
... instances , too , the rock on which the clay rests , if it be a trap , or a limestone , or a finely - grained sandstone ... instance , and in Wigtonshire - it con- tains numerous shells , which , both in their species and their state of ...
Pagina 70
... . In some of our shallow Highland fields , for instance , I have seen the rock beneath , or the stones buried at the depth of but a few inches from the surface , scarred by the plough with ruts not 70 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
... . In some of our shallow Highland fields , for instance , I have seen the rock beneath , or the stones buried at the depth of but a few inches from the surface , scarred by the plough with ruts not 70 LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
Pagina 73
... instance does the clay thus formed resemble some known variety of the boulder - clay . The boulder - clay , in the great majority of cases , is , both in color and quality , just such a clay as might be produced by this recipe of the ...
... instance does the clay thus formed resemble some known variety of the boulder - clay . The boulder - clay , in the great majority of cases , is , both in color and quality , just such a clay as might be produced by this recipe of the ...
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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.