Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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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 accumu- lation 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 accumu- lation of eight feet of peat , there occur irregularly oval pavements of stone ...
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... island for several centuries later . When in 1618 Taylor , the water poet , visited Scotland , he accompanied the ' good lord of Mar ' on one of his great hunting ex- peditions among the Grampians ; and we find , from the 1 Many ...
... island for several centuries later . When in 1618 Taylor , the water poet , visited Scotland , he accompanied the ' good lord of Mar ' on one of his great hunting ex- peditions among the Grampians ; and we find , from the 1 Many ...
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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 Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cones contains Crag Crag and Tail creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish débris deposits depth district earth elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished ganoid geologic geologist glacial glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow hundred icebergs island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Moray Firth mosses neighbourhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Paleozoic peculiar period Pleistocene polished portion precipices present remains reptile resemble rise 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 trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
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Էջ 94 - 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.
Էջ 147 - 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.
Էջ 228 - 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.
Էջ 289 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd 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...
Էջ 212 - This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species.
Էջ 185 - His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Էջ 230 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Էջ 107 - Then, awed to silence, they trode the strand Where furnaced pillars in order stand, All framed of the liquid burning levin, And bent like the bow that spans the heaven, Or upright ranged in horrid array, With purfle of green o'er the darksome gray.
Էջ 74 - And here awhile the Muse, High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene. Sees Caledonia, in romantic view : Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a keen diffusive sky, Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge...
Էջ 184 - Who can discover the face of his garment ? Or who can come to him with his double bridle ? Who can open the doors of his face ? His teeth are terrible round about.