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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... island ere the commencement of the Christian era ; and our evidence regarding them is , as I have said , properly of a geologic character . We read their history in what may be termed the fossils of the antiquary . Man is peculiarly a ...
... island ere the commencement of the Christian era ; and our evidence regarding them is , as I have said , properly of a geologic character . We read their history in what may be termed the fossils of the antiquary . Man is peculiarly a ...
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... 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 , Argyleshire , where , under an accu- mulation of eight feet of peat , there occur irregularly oval pavements of stone ...
... 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 , Argyleshire , where , under an accu- mulation of eight feet of peat , there occur irregularly oval pavements of stone ...
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... island for several centu- ries later . When in 1618 Taylor , the water poet , visited Scotland , he accompanied the " good lord of Mar " on one of his great hunting expeditions among the Grampians ; and we find , from the amusing ...
... island for several centu- ries later . When in 1618 Taylor , the water poet , visited Scotland , he accompanied the " good lord of Mar " on one of his great hunting expeditions among the Grampians ; and we find , from the amusing ...
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... islands . The country , save in a few interrupted tracts of precipitous coast , where the depth of the water , like that beside a steep mole whose base never dries at ebb , precluded any accession to the land , presents around its ...
... islands . The country , save in a few interrupted tracts of precipitous coast , where the depth of the water , like that beside a steep mole whose base never dries at ebb , precluded any accession to the land , presents around its ...
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... island . Geology may be properly regarded as the science of landscape : it is to the landscape painter what anatomy is to the historic one or to the sculptor . In the singularly rich and variously compounded prospects of our country ...
... island . Geology may be properly regarded as the science of landscape : it is to the landscape painter what anatomy is to the historic one or to the sculptor . In the singularly rich and variously compounded prospects of our country ...
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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