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Pagina 54
... occupied by the race - course of Inveresk ; and not a few of the seaports and watering places of the country , such as the greater part of Leith , Portobello , Musselburgh , Kirkaldy , Dundee , Dingwall , Invergordon , Cromarty , Wick ...
... occupied by the race - course of Inveresk ; and not a few of the seaports and watering places of the country , such as the greater part of Leith , Portobello , Musselburgh , Kirkaldy , Dundee , Dingwall , Invergordon , Cromarty , Wick ...
Pagina 57
... occupied its summit , it must have borne its present character from at least the times of Lollius Urbicus , — perhaps for several centuries earlier . The neighboring port of Portobello , as seen from the east , just as it comes full in ...
... occupied its summit , it must have borne its present character from at least the times of Lollius Urbicus , — perhaps for several centuries earlier . The neighboring port of Portobello , as seen from the east , just as it comes full in ...
Pagina 66
... occupied to its utmost extent by man : he lays it out into gardens and fields , and builds himself a dwelling upon it : but no sooner has he rendered it of some value , than the sea commences with him a course of tedious litigation for ...
... occupied to its utmost extent by man : he lays it out into gardens and fields , and builds himself a dwelling upon it : but no sooner has he rendered it of some value , than the sea commences with him a course of tedious litigation for ...
Pagina 80
... occupied by the great bank of Newfound- land ; and by some the very existence of the bank has been attributed to their junction , and to the vast accumu- lation of gravel and stone cast down year after year from the drift ice to the ...
... occupied by the great bank of Newfound- land ; and by some the very existence of the bank has been attributed to their junction , and to the vast accumu- lation of gravel and stone cast down year after year from the drift ice to the ...
Pagina 128
... occupied by garden and villa , church and burying - ground , as a steep , gravelly bar , heaped up in the vexed line , where the tides of the river on the one hand contended with the waves of the Frith on the other ; and the Esk , fed ...
... occupied by garden and villa , church and burying - ground , as a steep , gravelly bar , heaped up in the vexed line , where the tides of the river on the one hand contended with the waves of the Frith on the other ; and the Esk , fed ...
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.