Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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... Plants of Scotland the Vege- table Aborigines of the Country - Panoramic View of the Pleistocene and Post - Tertiary Periods - Modern Science not adverse to the Develop- ment of the Imaginative Faculty , • PAGE 44-80 LECTURE THIRD , The ...
... Plants of Scotland the Vege- table Aborigines of the Country - Panoramic View of the Pleistocene and Post - Tertiary Periods - Modern Science not adverse to the Develop- ment of the Imaginative Faculty , • PAGE 44-80 LECTURE THIRD , The ...
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... plants and scratched - up roots . Between the English Stonesfield or Great Oolite , in which many years ago four species of these small mammals were known to exist , and the Middle Purbeck , quarried by Mr. Beckles , in which fourteen ...
... plants and scratched - up roots . Between the English Stonesfield or Great Oolite , in which many years ago four species of these small mammals were known to exist , and the Middle Purbeck , quarried by Mr. Beckles , in which fourteen ...
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... plants , the thick water - mosses , began to spring up ; one generation budded and decayed over the ruins of another ; and what had been an overturned forest became in the course of years a deep morass , -an unsightly but permanent ...
... plants , the thick water - mosses , began to spring up ; one generation budded and decayed over the ruins of another ; and what had been an overturned forest became in the course of years a deep morass , -an unsightly but permanent ...
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... Plants of Scotland the Vegetable Aborigines of the Country - Panoramic View of the Pleistocene and Post - Tertiary Periods- Modern Science not adverse to the Development of the Imaginative Faculty . I REMEMBER , as distinctly as if I ...
... Plants of Scotland the Vegetable Aborigines of the Country - Panoramic View of the Pleistocene and Post - Tertiary Periods- Modern Science not adverse to the Development of the Imaginative Faculty . I REMEMBER , as distinctly as if I ...
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... plants and animals still contemporary with man , and with the further fact , that not a few of them must have been living upon the earth thousands of years ere he himself was ushered upon it , -facts of course wholly incompatible with ...
... plants and animals still contemporary with man , and with the further fact , that not a few of them must have been living upon the earth thousands of years ere he himself was ushered upon it , -facts of course wholly incompatible with ...
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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.