Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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... Trees and Animals of the Pre - Glacial Periods- Elephants ' Tusks found in Scotland and England regarded as the Re- mains of Giants - Legends concerning them - Marine Deposits beneath PAGE I - 43 the Pre - Glacial Forests of England ...
... Trees and Animals of the Pre - Glacial Periods- Elephants ' Tusks found in Scotland and England regarded as the Re- mains of Giants - Legends concerning them - Marine Deposits beneath PAGE I - 43 the Pre - Glacial Forests of England ...
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... Deposits of Scotland - Its Flora and Fauna - History of one of its Pine Trees - Its Animal Organisms- A Walk into the Wilds of the Oolite Hills of Sutherland , · 121-152 LECTURE FIFTH . The Lias of the Hill of Eathie viii CONTENTS .
... Deposits of Scotland - Its Flora and Fauna - History of one of its Pine Trees - Its Animal Organisms- A Walk into the Wilds of the Oolite Hills of Sutherland , · 121-152 LECTURE FIFTH . The Lias of the Hill of Eathie viii CONTENTS .
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... introduced afterwards ; and it may be conceived with what feelings of gratification I have perused Sir Roderick's repeated assurances of adherence to the ' Old Light . ' stone to have been a shoreless ocean without a tree PREFACE . xxix.
... introduced afterwards ; and it may be conceived with what feelings of gratification I have perused Sir Roderick's repeated assurances of adherence to the ' Old Light . ' stone to have been a shoreless ocean without a tree PREFACE . xxix.
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Hugh Miller. stone to have been a shoreless ocean without a tree ! — utterly ignoring the fact that he was himself the discoverer of the first Old Red fossil - wood of a coniferous character , and that he thence expressly infers the then ...
Hugh Miller. stone to have been a shoreless ocean without a tree ! — utterly ignoring the fact that he was himself the discoverer of the first Old Red fossil - wood of a coniferous character , and that he thence expressly infers the then ...
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... trees is a characteristic of the warmer climates . But he forgets , ' it is added , ' that Southern Europe wore a different aspect when it was first colonized by Pelasgian or Carthaginian settlers . He forgets , too , that an earlier ...
... trees is a characteristic of the warmer climates . But he forgets , ' it is added , ' that Southern Europe wore a different aspect when it was first colonized by Pelasgian or Carthaginian settlers . He forgets , too , that an earlier ...
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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.