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Pagina 30
... specimen of its class , see page 409 , under the head " Recent Geological Discoveries ; " and , in contradistinction to it , the extract from Sir R. Murchison's Address ought to be carefully studied . I myself had seen neither that ...
... specimen of its class , see page 409 , under the head " Recent Geological Discoveries ; " and , in contradistinction to it , the extract from Sir R. Murchison's Address ought to be carefully studied . I myself had seen neither that ...
Pagina 92
... specimens of ele- phantine remains ; but as they were brought to light in ages in which comparative anatomy was unknown , and men believed that the human race had been of vast strength and stature in the primeval ages , but were fast ...
... specimens of ele- phantine remains ; but as they were brought to light in ages in which comparative anatomy was unknown , and men believed that the human race had been of vast strength and stature in the primeval ages , but were fast ...
Pagina 106
... specimens , the one fit for the table in the character of a palatable viand , the other for the shelves of a geological museum in the character of a curious ichthyolite . It is the Mallotus villosus , or Capelan ( for such is its market ...
... specimens , the one fit for the table in the character of a palatable viand , the other for the shelves of a geological museum in the character of a curious ichthyolite . It is the Mallotus villosus , or Capelan ( for such is its market ...
Pagina 138
... specimens of all three have been found locked up in amber in a state of the most perfect keeping . And , besides containing fragments of the pine which produced it , it has been found to contain minute pieces of four other species of ...
... specimens of all three have been found locked up in amber in a state of the most perfect keeping . And , besides containing fragments of the pine which produced it , it has been found to contain minute pieces of four other species of ...
Pagina 141
... specimens of considerable size have been found , for in- stance , in a clay - pit near Hyde Park corner , not a quarter of a mile from the site of the Crystal Palace . It occurs too , in Prussia , in a clay - bed of considerable ...
... specimens of considerable size have been found , for in- stance , in a clay - pit near Hyde Park corner , not a quarter of a mile from the site of the Crystal Palace . It occurs too , in Prussia , in a clay - bed of considerable ...
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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.