Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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... nature , and , I trust , with nature's God , -- the perennial springs of whose bounty are seldom quaffed in this manner as they ought to be , -I trust that much , much happiness is in store for you and for the other gentlemen of the ...
... nature , and , I trust , with nature's God , -- the perennial springs of whose bounty are seldom quaffed in this manner as they ought to be , -I trust that much , much happiness is in store for you and for the other gentlemen of the ...
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... Natural and Artificial , found under them - The Sand Dunes of Scotland - Human Remains and Works of Art found in them - An Old Church disinterred in 1835 on the Coast of Cornwall - Controversy regarding it - Ancient Scotch Barony under ...
... Natural and Artificial , found under them - The Sand Dunes of Scotland - Human Remains and Works of Art found in them - An Old Church disinterred in 1835 on the Coast of Cornwall - Controversy regarding it - Ancient Scotch Barony under ...
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... Nature its Poetry - The Tertiary Formation in Scotland - In Geologic History all Ages contem- porary - Amber the Resin of the Pinus succinifer - A Vegetable Produc- tion of the Middle Tertiary Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The Masses ...
... Nature its Poetry - The Tertiary Formation in Scotland - In Geologic History all Ages contem- porary - Amber the Resin of the Pinus succinifer - A Vegetable Produc- tion of the Middle Tertiary Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The Masses ...
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... natural method does not possess a charm which any more formal arrange- ment would have wanted . Every one must be struck with the freshness , buoyancy , and vigour displayed in the Sum- mer Rambles ; qualities more apparent in these ...
... natural method does not possess a charm which any more formal arrange- ment would have wanted . Every one must be struck with the freshness , buoyancy , and vigour displayed in the Sum- mer Rambles ; qualities more apparent in these ...
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... nature , it may be regarded by beginners in another aspect , - -one very different from that in which Wordsworth looked upon it when he thanked Heaven that the covert nooks of nature reported not of the geologist's hands , - ' the man ...
... nature , it may be regarded by beginners in another aspect , - -one very different from that in which Wordsworth looked upon it when he thanked Heaven that the covert nooks of nature reported not of the geologist's hands , - ' the man ...
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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.