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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... says the author , " in the dwarf and inferior forms of the marsupials and insectivora , not any of the honest mammals have yet appeared . " I But while attaching no importance to the discoveries in the Middle Purbeck , except in regard ...
... says the author , " in the dwarf and inferior forms of the marsupials and insectivora , not any of the honest mammals have yet appeared . " I But while attaching no importance to the discoveries in the Middle Purbeck , except in regard ...
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... says Sir Roderick , in a passage occurring shortly after that we have quoted , " Let me entreat the reader not to be led by the reasoning of the ablest physiologist , or by an appeal to minute structural affinities , to impugn the clear ...
... says Sir Roderick , in a passage occurring shortly after that we have quoted , " Let me entreat the reader not to be led by the reasoning of the ablest physiologist , or by an appeal to minute structural affinities , to impugn the clear ...
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... says Professor Owen , in his last Address to the British Association , " has the manifestation of creative force been limited to one epoch of time . " This , translated into fact , can only mean that the vertebrate type had its ...
... says Professor Owen , in his last Address to the British Association , " has the manifestation of creative force been limited to one epoch of time . " This , translated into fact , can only mean that the vertebrate type had its ...
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... say that geographical changes took place , bringing with them the denizens of different climates , and adapted for different modes of life . The same Almighty Power which now pro- vides habitats and conditions suitable for the wants of ...
... say that geographical changes took place , bringing with them the denizens of different climates , and adapted for different modes of life . The same Almighty Power which now pro- vides habitats and conditions suitable for the wants of ...
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... says : " Near Maestricht , in Holland , the chalk , with flint , is covered by a kind of chalky rock , with gray flints , over which are loose , yellowish lime- stones , sometimes almost made up of fossils . " Similar beds also occur at ...
... says : " Near Maestricht , in Holland , the chalk , with flint , is covered by a kind of chalky rock , with gray flints , over which are loose , yellowish lime- stones , sometimes almost made up of fossils . " Similar beds also occur at ...
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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