Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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... round them , waiting for that new impulse from the Divine Spirit which is to quicken them into an intenser and higher unity . I have been led to indulge the hope that this work will be found useful in giving to elementary Geology a ...
... round them , waiting for that new impulse from the Divine Spirit which is to quicken them into an intenser and higher unity . I have been led to indulge the hope that this work will be found useful in giving to elementary Geology a ...
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... round of investigation by the most competent authorities , and has stood the test of time . It is peculiarly subject to the cry of lo , here ! and lo , there ! from false and imperfectly informed teachers ; and I believe the men most ...
... round of investigation by the most competent authorities , and has stood the test of time . It is peculiarly subject to the cry of lo , here ! and lo , there ! from false and imperfectly informed teachers ; and I believe the men most ...
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... rounded pebbles and boulders , and which , where washed by the waves , presents a frontage nearly as steep as that of the rock itself . deposit by which it is represented is known technically to the agriculturist as Till , and to the ...
... rounded pebbles and boulders , and which , where washed by the waves , presents a frontage nearly as steep as that of the rock itself . deposit by which it is represented is known technically to the agriculturist as Till , and to the ...
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... rounded at their edges , and mayhap scratched and polished like the stones . Nor is it difficult to conceive of a yet further consequence of the process . A vast number of rafts dropping down some river from day to day and year to year ...
... rounded at their edges , and mayhap scratched and polished like the stones . Nor is it difficult to conceive of a yet further consequence of the process . A vast number of rafts dropping down some river from day to day and year to year ...
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... rounded fragments of shells and pebbles scratched in the line of their longer axis . Now , in the boulder - clay we find all these peculiarities remarkably exemplified . It contains , as has been shown , the oblong stones scratched ...
... rounded fragments of shells and pebbles scratched in the line of their longer axis . Now , in the boulder - clay we find all these peculiarities remarkably exemplified . It contains , as has been shown , the oblong stones scratched ...
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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.