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Pagina 191
... lignite shales of Brora , it must have been a plant of con- siderable elegance of form , encircled at each joint in some of the specimens by torus - like mouldings grooved cross- wise , traversed in the spaces between by longitudinal ...
... lignite shales of Brora , it must have been a plant of con- siderable elegance of form , encircled at each joint in some of the specimens by torus - like mouldings grooved cross- wise , traversed in the spaces between by longitudinal ...
Pagina 196
... lignite field , so con- siderable that it was wrought for greatly more than a cen- tury , at one time to such effect , that during the twelve years which intervened between 1814 and 1826 , no fewer than seventy thousand tons of coal ...
... lignite field , so con- siderable that it was wrought for greatly more than a cen- tury , at one time to such effect , that during the twelve years which intervened between 1814 and 1826 , no fewer than seventy thousand tons of coal ...
Pagina 198
... lignite or stone , long ages ere there was language enough in the world to furnish them with names ; and now the dead has been employed to designate the dead , — dead languages to designate the remains of dead creations . Could we but ...
... lignite or stone , long ages ere there was language enough in the world to furnish them with names ; and now the dead has been employed to designate the dead , — dead languages to designate the remains of dead creations . Could we but ...
Pagina 207
... lignite , ichthyolite , and shell , formed the stiff boarding ; and the thin pasteboard- like lamina between , - tens and hundreds of thousands in number in even the slimmer volumes , composed the closely written leaves . For never did ...
... lignite , ichthyolite , and shell , formed the stiff boarding ; and the thin pasteboard- like lamina between , - tens and hundreds of thousands in number in even the slimmer volumes , composed the closely written leaves . For never did ...
Pagina 311
... lignite of the Tertiary are described as of greater depth ; but it burns so imperfectly , and emits so offensive an odor , that , though used by some of the poorer cottagers in the neighborhood , and some of the local potteries , it ...
... lignite of the Tertiary are described as of greater depth ; but it burns so imperfectly , and emits so offensive an odor , that , though used by some of the poorer cottagers in the neighborhood , and some of the local potteries , it ...
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.