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Pagina 11
... would probably , more or less , if not alto- gether , have disappeared . Yet it may well be doubted whether 12 INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ : — — the natural method does INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCI- ENCE, •
... would probably , more or less , if not alto- gether , have disappeared . Yet it may well be doubted whether 12 INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ : — — the natural method does INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCI- ENCE, •
Pagina 25
... less rapid , which should prepare the way for the next stage in our planetary existence , its new framework , and its fresh burden of vital beings . - The other great break in the continuity of fossils , which occurs between the Chalk ...
... less rapid , which should prepare the way for the next stage in our planetary existence , its new framework , and its fresh burden of vital beings . - The other great break in the continuity of fossils , which occurs between the Chalk ...
Pagina 27
... less than nineteen or twenty species of M'Lurea , Murchisonia , Cephalita , and Orthoceras , with an Orthis , etc. , of which ten or eleven occur in the Lower Silurian rocks of North America . " This change would demand an entirely new ...
... less than nineteen or twenty species of M'Lurea , Murchisonia , Cephalita , and Orthoceras , with an Orthis , etc. , of which ten or eleven occur in the Lower Silurian rocks of North America . " This change would demand an entirely new ...
Pagina 35
... less value , which I had not met with elsewhere ; and some such , of the descriptive kind , I have culled and arranged at the end of the Lectures : first , because I was loth that any original observation from that mind which should ...
... less value , which I had not met with elsewhere ; and some such , of the descriptive kind , I have culled and arranged at the end of the Lectures : first , because I was loth that any original observation from that mind which should ...
Pagina 46
... less evi- dently of the subsequent " bronze period . " It is stated by Dr. Boates , in his " Natural History , " that in Ireland , the furrows of what had been once ploughed fields have been found underlying bogs , -in one instance at ...
... less evi- dently of the subsequent " bronze period . " It is stated by Dr. Boates , in his " Natural History , " that in Ireland , the furrows of what had been once ploughed fields have been found underlying bogs , -in one instance at ...
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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.