Sketch-book of Popular GeologyW. P. Nimmo, 1869 - 356 էջ |
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... thus be seen that they veritably gather into one lumi- nous centre the best portions of his contemplated work , gar- nering very much of what was most vivid in painting and original in conception , -of that which has now , xiv PREFACE .
... thus be seen that they veritably gather into one lumi- nous centre the best portions of his contemplated work , gar- nering very much of what was most vivid in painting and original in conception , -of that which has now , xiv PREFACE .
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... portion of the central nucleus , having the Old Red Sandstone series on the eastern side . A change has likewise been made in the internal arrangements of the Old Red , of which the next edition of my husband's work on the subject will ...
... portion of the central nucleus , having the Old Red Sandstone series on the eastern side . A change has likewise been made in the internal arrangements of the Old Red , of which the next edition of my husband's work on the subject will ...
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... portions of the one piece on to the most modern portions of the other . But their line of junction is , if I may so express myself , not an abrupt , but a shaded line ; so that , on the one hand , the human period passes so entirely ...
... portions of the one piece on to the most modern portions of the other . But their line of junction is , if I may so express myself , not an abrupt , but a shaded line ; so that , on the one hand , the human period passes so entirely ...
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... portions of hazel stakes , —the remains , apparently , of such primitive huts as those in which , accord- ing to Gibbon , the ancient Germans resided , and which were , we are told , ' of a circular figure , built of rough timber ...
... portions of hazel stakes , —the remains , apparently , of such primitive huts as those in which , accord- ing to Gibbon , the ancient Germans resided , and which were , we are told , ' of a circular figure , built of rough timber ...
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... portion of one of its long sentences . ' Our Sovereign Lord , ' says the pre- amble , ' considering that many lands ... portions of the buried furrows , sorely dried into the consistence of sun - burned brick , but largely charged with ...
... portion of one of its long sentences . ' Our Sovereign Lord , ' says the pre- amble , ' considering that many lands ... portions of the buried furrows , sorely dried into the consistence of sun - burned brick , but largely charged with ...
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ages amber amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite bottom boulder boulder-clay Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cones contains corals creature Cromarty curious deposits depth district division earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished ganoid geologic geologist glacier gneiss granite grey grooved Helmsdale Highlands hills hollow hundred island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Moray Firth mosses mountain neighbourhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Paleozoic peculiar period pine plants Pleistocene poet portion precipices present remains reptile resemble rise river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scene 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 woods
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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 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 230 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
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 227 - Boon nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child ; Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each clift a narrow bower ; Foxglove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride...
Էջ 17 - This elegant and useful Series of Books has been specially prepared for School and College Prizes: they are, however, equally suitable for General Presentation. In selecting the works for this Series, the aim of the publisher has been to produce books of a permanent value, interesting in...
Էջ 227 - Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; For, from their shivered brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen, The brier-rose fell in streamers green, And creeping shrubs, of thousand dyes, Waved in the west-wind's summer sighs.
Էջ 129 - OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail ! For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune's fickle gale...
Էջ 214 - Water ; and in that direction you see Teviotdale and the Braes of Yarrow, and Ettrick stream winding along like a silver thread, to throw itself into the Tweed.' He went on thus to call over names celebrated in Scottish song, and most of which had recently received a romantic interest from his own pen. In fact...