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Pagina 40
... river Shannon was ford- able at only one point , which of course formed the only medium of com- munication between the natives of the two banks . They seem , however , " it is added , " to have met oftener for war than peace ; and from ...
... river Shannon was ford- able at only one point , which of course formed the only medium of com- munication between the natives of the two banks . They seem , however , " it is added , " to have met oftener for war than peace ; and from ...
Pagina 42
... river estuaries , and that marginal strip of flat land which intervenes between the ancient and the existing coast lines . The remains of man also occur , widely scattered all over the country , in a su- perficial layer , composed in ...
... river estuaries , and that marginal strip of flat land which intervenes between the ancient and the existing coast lines . The remains of man also occur , widely scattered all over the country , in a su- perficial layer , composed in ...
Pagina 47
... river Teivy , Cardigan- shire . The wolf and wild horse maintained their place in at least the northern part of the island for several centu- ries later . When in 1618 Taylor , the water poet , visited Scotland , he accompanied the ...
... river Teivy , Cardigan- shire . The wolf and wild horse maintained their place in at least the northern part of the island for several centu- ries later . When in 1618 Taylor , the water poet , visited Scotland , he accompanied the ...
Pagina 57
... river - bar , heaped up apparently by the action of the waves on the one side , and by that of the stream on the other . But , as shown by the remains of Roman baths and a Roman rampart , which once occupied its summit , it must have ...
... river - bar , heaped up apparently by the action of the waves on the one side , and by that of the stream on the other . But , as shown by the remains of Roman baths and a Roman rampart , which once occupied its summit , it must have ...
Pagina 60
... river now deposits , but on a pure sea sand . " It therefore appears , " says Mr. Robert Chambers , in his singularly ingenious work on " Raised Beaches , " " that we have scarcely an alternative to the supposition that when these ...
... river now deposits , but on a pure sea sand . " It therefore appears , " says Mr. Robert Chambers , in his singularly ingenious work on " Raised Beaches , " " that we have scarcely an alternative to the supposition that when these ...
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.