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Pagina vi
... Rocks in the Lower Parts of the Country Evidences of the fact - Sir Charles Lyell's Ob- servations on the Canadian Lake District - - Close of the Boulder - Clay Record in Scotland - Its Continuance in England into the Pliocene Ages -The ...
... Rocks in the Lower Parts of the Country Evidences of the fact - Sir Charles Lyell's Ob- servations on the Canadian Lake District - - Close of the Boulder - Clay Record in Scotland - Its Continuance in England into the Pliocene Ages -The ...
Pagina viii
... Rocks - Consists of Three Distinct Formations - Their Vegetable Organisms -The Caithness Flagstones , how formed The ... Rocks of Scotland - Its Highland Scenery formed of them - Description of Glencoe - Other Highland Scenery glanced at ...
... Rocks - Consists of Three Distinct Formations - Their Vegetable Organisms -The Caithness Flagstones , how formed The ... Rocks of Scotland - Its Highland Scenery formed of them - Description of Glencoe - Other Highland Scenery glanced at ...
Pagina 16
... rocks - the uppermost of the Siluri -continue to be the lowest point at which fish are fou Up to that period , during the vast ages of the Cambri where only the faintest traces of animal life have been tected in the shape of annelides ...
... rocks - the uppermost of the Siluri -continue to be the lowest point at which fish are fou Up to that period , during the vast ages of the Cambri where only the faintest traces of animal life have been tected in the shape of annelides ...
Pagina 25
... rock , with gray flints , over which are loose , yellowish lime- stones , sometimes almost made up of fossils ... rocks.1 Sir Roderick Murchison's late explorations in the Highlands although , of course , local in their character ...
... rock , with gray flints , over which are loose , yellowish lime- stones , sometimes almost made up of fossils ... rocks.1 Sir Roderick Murchison's late explorations in the Highlands although , of course , local in their character ...
Pagina 26
... rocks , with limestone , into overlying quartzose , micaceous , and other crystalline rocks , some of which have a gneissose character . They had also observed what they supposed to be an associated formation of red grit and sandstone ...
... rocks , with limestone , into overlying quartzose , micaceous , and other crystalline rocks , some of which have a gneissose character . They had also observed what they supposed to be an associated formation of red grit and sandstone ...
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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.