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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... higher and nobler work which God has given you to do , may he grant you no stinted measure of his abundant grace , to enable you to per- form it aright . Ever believe me , dear Sir , Yours most faithfully , LYDIA MILLER . * The Malvern ...
... higher and nobler work which God has given you to do , may he grant you no stinted measure of his abundant grace , to enable you to per- form it aright . Ever believe me , dear Sir , Yours most faithfully , LYDIA MILLER . * The Malvern ...
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... higher unity . I have been led to indulge the hope that this work will be found useful in giving to elementary Geology a greater attrac- tiveness in the eyes of the student than it has hitherto pos- sessed . It was characteristic of the ...
... higher unity . I have been led to indulge the hope that this work will be found useful in giving to elementary Geology a greater attrac- tiveness in the eyes of the student than it has hitherto pos- sessed . It was characteristic of the ...
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... higher mammals will not be found to be of all periods , if at all periods they existed . In the meantime , it is well to know the actual point to which discovery has conducted us ; and this I have taken every pains most carefully to ...
... higher mammals will not be found to be of all periods , if at all periods they existed . In the meantime , it is well to know the actual point to which discovery has conducted us ; and this I have taken every pains most carefully to ...
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... higher grades of life in each forma- tion . Let no one imagine that because the bony characters in the jaw and teeth of the Plagiaulax of the Purbeck strata are such as the comparative anatomist might have expected to find among ...
... higher grades of life in each forma- tion . Let no one imagine that because the bony characters in the jaw and teeth of the Plagiaulax of the Purbeck strata are such as the comparative anatomist might have expected to find among ...
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... higher mammals , had been found from the beginning , and that the highest and the lowest forms of being were at all periods contemporary . No one , surely , would have a right to make such a prodigious stride in the line of inference ...
... higher mammals , had been found from the beginning , and that the highest and the lowest forms of being were at all periods contemporary . No one , surely , would have a right to make such a prodigious stride in the line of inference ...
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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