Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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Էջ 142
... lignite shales of Brora , it must have been a plant of con- siderable elegance of form , encircled at each joint at some of the specimens by torus - like mouldings grooved crosswise , traversed in the spaces between by longitudinal ...
... lignite shales of Brora , it must have been a plant of con- siderable elegance of form , encircled at each joint at some of the specimens by torus - like mouldings grooved crosswise , traversed in the spaces between by longitudinal ...
Էջ 147
... lignite field , so considerable that it was wrought for greatly more than a century , -at one time to such effect , that dur- ing the twelve years which intervened between 1814 and 1826 , no fewer than seventy thousand tons of coal were ...
... lignite field , so considerable that it was wrought for greatly more than a century , -at one time to such effect , that dur- ing the twelve years which intervened between 1814 and 1826 , no fewer than seventy thousand tons of coal were ...
Էջ 148
... lignite or stone , long ages ere there was language enough in the world to furnish them with names ; and now the dead has been employed to designate the dead , -dead languages to designate the remains of dead creations . Could we but ...
... lignite or stone , long ages ere there was language enough in the world to furnish them with names ; and now the dead has been employed to designate the dead , -dead languages to designate the remains of dead creations . Could we but ...
Էջ 156
... lignite , ich- thyolite , and shell , formed the stiff boarding ; and the thin pasteboard - like laminæ between , -tens and hundreds of thousands in number in even the slimmer volumes , —- com- posed the closely written leaves . For ...
... lignite , ich- thyolite , and shell , formed the stiff boarding ; and the thin pasteboard - like laminæ between , -tens and hundreds of thousands in number in even the slimmer volumes , —- com- posed the closely written leaves . For ...
Էջ 305
... lignite . In cases of the first kind , the original dike , composed of a substance less suited to resist the action of the weather than the con- taining rock , has mouldered away , and left the vent from which it issued a mere hollow ...
... lignite . In cases of the first kind , the original dike , composed of a substance less suited to resist the action of the weather than the con- taining rock , has mouldered away , and left the vent from which it issued a mere hollow ...
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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.