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Pagina iii
... present case , I venture to think that those peculiar circumstances do exist ; and I feel assured he would readily pardon me , whose work this is , and whose memory you so much revere . Without your coöperation , I believe that neither ...
... present case , I venture to think that those peculiar circumstances do exist ; and I feel assured he would readily pardon me , whose work this is , and whose memory you so much revere . Without your coöperation , I believe that neither ...
Pagina viii
... Speculations of Philosophers regarding the Processes to which the Earth owes its present Form - The Author's views on the subject , 249-298 - - CONTENTS OF DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES . Page ACCUMULATIONS OF SHELLS , VIII CONTENTS .
... Speculations of Philosophers regarding the Processes to which the Earth owes its present Form - The Author's views on the subject , 249-298 - - CONTENTS OF DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES . Page ACCUMULATIONS OF SHELLS , VIII CONTENTS .
Pagina 9
... present volume supplies , to general readers , what the proposed work would have done for the scientific world . It gives the geological history of Scotland - and , with Scotland , of the world - in language intel- ligible to all , and ...
... present volume supplies , to general readers , what the proposed work would have done for the scientific world . It gives the geological history of Scotland - and , with Scotland , of the world - in language intel- ligible to all , and ...
Pagina 15
... present moment leans to the side of a gradual progress and a serial development , it is because so much remains undiscovered ; the hiatus , wherever it occurs , being always in our own knowledge , and not in the actual state of things ...
... present moment leans to the side of a gradual progress and a serial development , it is because so much remains undiscovered ; the hiatus , wherever it occurs , being always in our own knowledge , and not in the actual state of things ...
Pagina 16
... present day . Sir Ro erick Murchison at one time entertained the idea of placin the Ludlow bone - bed at the base of the Old Red Sandston but its fish having been found decidedly associated with Sil rian organisms , this idea has been ...
... present day . Sir Ro erick Murchison at one time entertained the idea of placin the Ludlow bone - bed at the base of the Old Red Sandston but its fish having been found decidedly associated with Sil rian organisms , this idea has been ...
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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.