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Pagina 9
... known to many of his admirers on this side of the Atlantic that he had been labor- ing for years on a work designed to be the magnum opus of his life - " THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND . " But his untimely death , it was supposed , had cut ...
... known to many of his admirers on this side of the Atlantic that he had been labor- ing for years on a work designed to be the magnum opus of his life - " THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND . " But his untimely death , it was supposed , had cut ...
Pagina 17
... known to exist , and the Middle Purbeck , quarried by Mr. Beckles , in which fourteen species are now found , there intervene the Oxford Clay , Coral Rag , Kimmeridge Clay , Portland Oolite , and Lower Purbeck Oolite ; and then , after ...
... known to exist , and the Middle Purbeck , quarried by Mr. Beckles , in which fourteen species are now found , there intervene the Oxford Clay , Coral Rag , Kimmeridge Clay , Portland Oolite , and Lower Purbeck Oolite ; and then , after ...
Pagina 18
... known geologist , of Albany , in the United States , has described , from the lower beds of the Chatham Secondary Coal - field , North Carolina ( of the same age as those of Virginia , and probably of the Wurtemberg Keuper ) , the jaws ...
... known geologist , of Albany , in the United States , has described , from the lower beds of the Chatham Secondary Coal - field , North Carolina ( of the same age as those of Virginia , and probably of the Wurtemberg Keuper ) , the jaws ...
Pagina 20
... known , either as genus or species , during all the past . little marsupials and insectivora appear " perfect after t kind , " and yet only the harbingers of the great mamma period which is yet to come . In the volume of Creation in ...
... known , either as genus or species , during all the past . little marsupials and insectivora appear " perfect after t kind , " and yet only the harbingers of the great mamma period which is yet to come . In the volume of Creation in ...
Pagina 23
... known . There are ten genera peculiarly Triassic , ten common to older , and ten to newer strata . Among these , the most remarkable is the Orthoceras , which was before held to be altogether Paleozoic , but is here found associated ...
... known . There are ten genera peculiarly Triassic , ten common to older , and ten to newer strata . Among these , the most remarkable is the Orthoceras , which was before held to be altogether Paleozoic , but is here found associated ...
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.