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Pagina viii
... Reptiles and Reptile Fishes - The other Organisms of the Period - Great Depth of the System- The Processes by which , during countless Ages , it had been ties - -- formed , LECTURE SIXTH . 203-248 - --- Remote Antiquity of the Old Red ...
... Reptiles and Reptile Fishes - The other Organisms of the Period - Great Depth of the System- The Processes by which , during countless Ages , it had been ties - -- formed , LECTURE SIXTH . 203-248 - --- Remote Antiquity of the Old Red ...
Pagina 19
... reptile of the Muschelkalk ) , and certain mollusca , Mr Moore believes that these patches represent the Keuper of Germany . If this view should be sustained , this author , who has already made remarkable additions to our acquaintance ...
... reptile of the Muschelkalk ) , and certain mollusca , Mr Moore believes that these patches represent the Keuper of Germany . If this view should be sustained , this author , who has already made remarkable additions to our acquaintance ...
Pagina 22
... reptile life which periods from the Trias to the Lower Cretaceous i Are marsupials and insectivora the highest class of ve Where , then , do the great placental mammals man himself- take rank ? — wh It were surely to be desired that ...
... reptile life which periods from the Trias to the Lower Cretaceous i Are marsupials and insectivora the highest class of ve Where , then , do the great placental mammals man himself- take rank ? — wh It were surely to be desired that ...
Pagina 30
... reptile foot - prints , that Iugh Miller considered the Old Red Sandstone to have been a shoreless ocean without a tree ! - utterly ignoring the fact that he was himself the discoverer of the first Old Red fossil - wood of a coniferous ...
... reptile foot - prints , that Iugh Miller considered the Old Red Sandstone to have been a shoreless ocean without a tree ! - utterly ignoring the fact that he was himself the discoverer of the first Old Red fossil - wood of a coniferous ...
Pagina 31
... reptile , a few additional marsupials , be the signal for the immediate outcry , " All is changed ; the former things have passed away ; all things have become new ? " My husband was solicitous even to the point of nervous anxiety to ...
... reptile , a few additional marsupials , be the signal for the immediate outcry , " All is changed ; the former things have passed away ; all things have become new ? " My husband was solicitous even to the point of nervous anxiety to ...
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.