Sketch-book of Popular GeologyWilliam P. Nimmo, 1872 - 356 էջ |
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Էջ xiv
... whole , when the lecturer's success had been triumphantly established ( for it must be remembered that lecturing was to him an experiment made late in life ) , I ventured to urge the propriety of having the series published before the ...
... whole , when the lecturer's success had been triumphantly established ( for it must be remembered that lecturing was to him an experiment made late in life ) , I ventured to urge the propriety of having the series published before the ...
Էջ xvii
... whole range of the Silurians , where shell - fish and crustaceans , with inferior forms of life , abounded , no traces of fish , the lowest vertebrate exist- ences until the latest formed beds of the Upper Silurian , have yet appeared ...
... whole range of the Silurians , where shell - fish and crustaceans , with inferior forms of life , abounded , no traces of fish , the lowest vertebrate exist- ences until the latest formed beds of the Upper Silurian , have yet appeared ...
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... whole under his eye at once . But as they are not in any way necessary to the completion of the sense , and perhaps Geo- logy , viewed simply by itself , and in the light of a popular study , is as well freed from extraneous matter , it ...
... whole under his eye at once . But as they are not in any way necessary to the completion of the sense , and perhaps Geo- logy , viewed simply by itself , and in the light of a popular study , is as well freed from extraneous matter , it ...
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... whole series of ancient warlike weapons was dug out . These weapons are now preserved in the fine collection of antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin , and are partly bronze and partly stone . Their position in ...
... whole series of ancient warlike weapons was dug out . These weapons are now preserved in the fine collection of antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin , and are partly bronze and partly stone . Their position in ...
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... whole line of coast for the distance of above one hundred miles was raised above its former level . At Valparaiso the elevation was three feet , and at Quinteno about four feet . Part of the bed of the sea remained bare and dry at high ...
... whole line of coast for the distance of above one hundred miles was raised above its former level . At Valparaiso the elevation was three feet , and at Quinteno about four feet . Part of the bed of the sea remained bare and dry at high ...
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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.