Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh : with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's PortfolioGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 423 Seiten |
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... gravel on which one of our Galwegian mosses rested , and which intimated that the " stone period " had commenced in the island ere this moss had begun to form . We find the same fact borne out by the Black Moss on the banks of the Etive ...
... gravel on which one of our Galwegian mosses rested , and which intimated that the " stone period " had commenced in the island ere this moss had begun to form . We find the same fact borne out by the Black Moss on the banks of the Etive ...
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... gravel , and strewed over by shells that were thrown ashore by the last tide , and that lived only a few weeks ago . And , rising over the lower , as over the upper flat , we see a continuous escarpment , which marks where , in the ...
... gravel , and strewed over by shells that were thrown ashore by the last tide , and that lived only a few weeks ago . And , rising over the lower , as over the upper flat , we see a continuous escarpment , which marks where , in the ...
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... gravel and pebbles resting on the rock beneath , it communicates motion , not of the rolling , but of the lurching character , to the flatter stones with which it comes in contact . It slides ponder- ously over them ; and they , with a ...
... gravel and pebbles resting on the rock beneath , it communicates motion , not of the rolling , but of the lurching character , to the flatter stones with which it comes in contact . It slides ponder- ously over them ; and they , with a ...
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... gravel and stone cast down year after year from the drift ice to the bottom , where these two great tides meet and jostle . Be this as it may , the number of boul- ders and the quantity of pebbles and gravel strewed over the bottom of ...
... gravel and stone cast down year after year from the drift ice to the bottom , where these two great tides meet and jostle . Be this as it may , the number of boul- ders and the quantity of pebbles and gravel strewed over the bottom of ...
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... gravel , and sand of the Drift were de- posited ; and occasionally fragments of rock , both large and small , which had been frozen into glaciers , or taken up by coast - ice , were dropped here and there at random over the bottom of ...
... gravel , and sand of the Drift were de- posited ; and occasionally fragments of rock , both large and small , which had been frozen into glaciers , or taken up by coast - ice , were dropped here and there at random over the bottom of ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous caves Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus cone contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth earth elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished ganoid geological geologist GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred inches island land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs moraine Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occupied occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present quarry remains reptiles resemble ridge rising river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees upper valley vast vegetable waves
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Seite 268 - Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under ? There are a thousand such elsewhere As worthy of your wonder.
Seite 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.
Seite 285 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Seite 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...
Seite 139 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Seite 187 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Seite 282 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey 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 shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Seite 236 - The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold ; the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee ; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble ; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear