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Pagina 13
Hugh Miller. - profoundly absorbed . And at the conclusion of the whole , when the lecturer's success had been triumphantly established ( for it must be remembered that lecturing was to him an experiment made late in life ) , I ventured ...
Hugh Miller. - profoundly absorbed . And at the conclusion of the whole , when the lecturer's success had been triumphantly established ( for it must be remembered that lecturing was to him an experiment made late in life ) , I ventured ...
Pagina 16
... whole range of the Silurians , where shell - f and crustaceans , with inferior forms of life abounded , traces of fish , the lowest vertebrate existences until latest formed beds of the Upper Silurian , have yet appear There are now six ...
... whole range of the Silurians , where shell - f and crustaceans , with inferior forms of life abounded , traces of fish , the lowest vertebrate existences until latest formed beds of the Upper Silurian , have yet appear There are now six ...
Pagina 34
... whole under his eye at once . But , as they are not in any way necessary to the completion of the sense , and perhaps Geology , viewed simply by itself , and in the light of a popular study , is as well freed from extraneous matter , it ...
... whole under his eye at once . But , as they are not in any way necessary to the completion of the sense , and perhaps Geology , viewed simply by itself , and in the light of a popular study , is as well freed from extraneous matter , it ...
Pagina 35
... whole , entitled " A Tour through the Northern Counties of Scotland . " They had , however , been largely drawn upon in various other works ; but , scattered throughout were passages of more or less value , which I had not met with ...
... whole , entitled " A Tour through the Northern Counties of Scotland . " They had , however , been largely drawn upon in various other works ; but , scattered throughout were passages of more or less value , which I had not met with ...
Pagina 40
... whole series of ancient warlike weapons was dug out . These weapons are now preserved in the fine collection of antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin , and are partly bronze and partly stone . Their position in ...
... whole series of ancient warlike weapons was dug out . These weapons are now preserved in the fine collection of antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin , and are partly bronze and partly stone . Their position in ...
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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.