Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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... surface ; small streams were choked up in the levels ; pools formed in the hollows ; the soil be- neath , shut up from the light and the air , became unfitted to produce its former vegetation ; but a new order of plants , the thick ...
... surface ; small streams were choked up in the levels ; pools formed in the hollows ; the soil be- neath , shut up from the light and the air , became unfitted to produce its former vegetation ; but a new order of plants , the thick ...
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... surface . In 1833 there was discovered in Drumkilen bog , near the north - east coast of the county of Donegal , an ancient house formed of oak beams . Though only nine feet high , it consisted of two storeys , each about four feet in ...
... surface . In 1833 there was discovered in Drumkilen bog , near the north - east coast of the county of Donegal , an ancient house formed of oak beams . Though only nine feet high , it consisted of two storeys , each about four feet in ...
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... surface and scroof of the sand - hills ; and particularly , considering that the barony of Cawbin , and house and yeards thereof , lying within the sheriffdom of Elgin , is quite ruined and overspread with sand , the which was ...
... surface and scroof of the sand - hills ; and particularly , considering that the barony of Cawbin , and house and yeards thereof , lying within the sheriffdom of Elgin , is quite ruined and overspread with sand , the which was ...
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... surfaces , reminding one of tears on a hatchment , -when the hills around , purple with the richly - blossoming heath ... surface , to the wave - like form of the hills sloped in the direction of the prevailing winds , and curved , like ...
... surfaces , reminding one of tears on a hatchment , -when the hills around , purple with the richly - blossoming heath ... surface , to the wave - like form of the hills sloped in the direction of the prevailing winds , and curved , like ...
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... surface of a country churchyard , but with this difference , that they seem the burial - mounds of giants tall and bulky as those that of old warred against the gods . On a grass - covered escarpment of the boulder - clay in the ...
... surface of a country churchyard , but with this difference , that they seem the burial - mounds of giants tall and bulky as those that of old warred against the gods . On a grass - covered escarpment of the boulder - clay in the ...
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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.