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Pagina 44
... mark of the Roman axe narrow , chisel - like tool - has been detected , in many stances , on the lower tier of stumps over which the has accumulated ; and in some cases the sorely rusted itself has been found sticking in the buried tree ...
... mark of the Roman axe narrow , chisel - like tool - has been detected , in many stances , on the lower tier of stumps over which the has accumulated ; and in some cases the sorely rusted itself has been found sticking in the buried tree ...
Pagina 52
... marks of this change of level can be traced all around Sco land and its islands . The country , save in a few interrupt ... mark in some places advancing in low promontories , in others receding into shallow bays , and which is separated ...
... marks of this change of level can be traced all around Sco land and its islands . The country , save in a few interrupt ... mark in some places advancing in low promontories , in others receding into shallow bays , and which is separated ...
Pagina 53
... marks where , in the present age , during the height of stream tides , the sea and the land meet ; just as the up- per willow - crested escarpment indicates where they met of old . The two escarpments and the two gently sloping planes ...
... marks where , in the present age , during the height of stream tides , the sea and the land meet ; just as the up- per willow - crested escarpment indicates where they met of old . The two escarpments and the two gently sloping planes ...
Pagina 62
... mark , propor- tionally at least , the respective periods during which they were exposed to the excavating agent . Thus , the aver- age depth of the ancient caves in an exposed line of coast , as ascertained by dividing the aggregate ...
... mark , propor- tionally at least , the respective periods during which they were exposed to the excavating agent . Thus , the aver- age depth of the ancient caves in an exposed line of coast , as ascertained by dividing the aggregate ...
Pagina 65
... marks a par- oxysm of elevation ; and , with the upheaval of the coast . of Chili , and a numerous class of events of a similar char- acter , it enables us to conceive of the last great geological change of which our country was the ...
... marks a par- oxysm of elevation ; and , with the upheaval of the coast . of Chili , and a numerous class of events of a similar char- acter , it enables us to conceive of the last great geological change of which our country was 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.