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... interesting fea- tures in the Landscape -Their prevalence in Scotland - The more remarka- ble Ice - travelled Boulders described - Anecdotes of the " Travelled Stone of - -- - Petty " and the Standing - Stone of Torribal - Elevation of ...
... interesting fea- tures in the Landscape -Their prevalence in Scotland - The more remarka- ble Ice - travelled Boulders described - Anecdotes of the " Travelled Stone of - -- - Petty " and the Standing - Stone of Torribal - Elevation of ...
Pagina 17
... interesting genus is the kangaroo rat , which inhabits the prairies and scrub - jungles of Australia , feeding on plants and scratched - up roots . Between the English Stonesfield or Great Oolite , in which , many years ago , four ...
... interesting genus is the kangaroo rat , which inhabits the prairies and scrub - jungles of Australia , feeding on plants and scratched - up roots . Between the English Stonesfield or Great Oolite , in which , many years ago , four ...
Pagina 40
... interesting article on Ireland which lately appeared in the " Scotsman " newspaper , I find it stated that for a very considerable dis- tance , " between Lough Rea and Lough Derg , the river Shannon was ford- able at only one point ...
... interesting article on Ireland which lately appeared in the " Scotsman " newspaper , I find it stated that for a very considerable dis- tance , " between Lough Rea and Lough Derg , the river Shannon was ford- able at only one point ...
Pagina 47
... interesting human remains have lately been disinterred from the Severn drift and gravels near Tewkesbury , such as cinerary urns with bones and ashes , and utensils for carrying water , associated with antlers of the red deer.-W. S. S. ...
... interesting human remains have lately been disinterred from the Severn drift and gravels near Tewkesbury , such as cinerary urns with bones and ashes , and utensils for carrying water , associated with antlers of the red deer.-W. S. S. ...
Pagina 49
... interesting a relic to escape the notice of the parties which the controversy divided . But though antagonistic volumes were written regarding it , in a style not quite like that in which Professor Owen and Dr. Man- tell have since ...
... interesting a relic to escape the notice of the parties which the controversy divided . But though antagonistic volumes were written regarding it , in a style not quite like that in which Professor Owen and Dr. Man- tell have since ...
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.