Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Հատոր 2Taylor & Francis, 1868 List of members. |
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... interesting and important fact : 1st , The fish , if fresh - water , were , like the salmon of the present day , capable of visiting the sea . 2nd , They must have been contemporaries of the corals and other Devonshire organisms . It ...
... interesting and important fact : 1st , The fish , if fresh - water , were , like the salmon of the present day , capable of visiting the sea . 2nd , They must have been contemporaries of the corals and other Devonshire organisms . It ...
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... interesting , as before it was arrived at our best geological text books either directly stated , or strongly inclined to the opinion , that England contained no rock of Miocene age . Indeed , it still remains to be a fact , that in the ...
... interesting , as before it was arrived at our best geological text books either directly stated , or strongly inclined to the opinion , that England contained no rock of Miocene age . Indeed , it still remains to be a fact , that in the ...
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... interesting to be able to add that Kent's Cavern has yielded other proofs . Many of the bones found in it are split longitudinally , as if for the extraction of the marrow . This was without doubt the work of man , for besides him no ...
... interesting to be able to add that Kent's Cavern has yielded other proofs . Many of the bones found in it are split longitudinally , as if for the extraction of the marrow . This was without doubt the work of man , for besides him no ...
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... interesting from its local form of fairy , the Devonshire pixy . But the most noticeable fact connected with North Devon is , not so much the variety or specially local character of its superstitions and vulgar customs , as of their ...
... interesting from its local form of fairy , the Devonshire pixy . But the most noticeable fact connected with North Devon is , not so much the variety or specially local character of its superstitions and vulgar customs , as of their ...
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... interesting facts to the description which they had given . In a paper read before this Association at the Meeting in 1866 , some doubt was thrown on the conclusion to which the earlier observers had been led , and it was suggested that ...
... interesting facts to the description which they had given . In a paper read before this Association at the Meeting in 1866 , some doubt was thrown on the conclusion to which the earlier observers had been led , and it was suggested that ...
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Common terms and phrases
ancient animals annual appears Association Barnstaple Barnstaple Bay barrow beach beds Beer Alston believe bones Bovey Bovey Tracey Bowerb Brit British Brushford Carboniferous caudal fin cave Cavern character clay coast of Devon colour Combmartin Cornwall crystals Dartmoor deposits Devonian Devonshire district dorsal dorsal fin east evidence Exeter existing fact feet fish flint forests fossil fragments Geological granite ground hill Honiton Huel hyæna inches iron Johnst Kent's Cavern Kent's Hole known labour length limestone mean miles mines Montagu North Devon observed occur Okehampton Old Red Old Red Sandstone pebbles Pengelly period Pilton Plymouth Polperro portion present prison probably red sandstone remains remarkable rocks sand says sewer side Silurian slate South coast species specimens Spong stalagmite stones supposed surface Tavistock temperature thick tide tion Torbay Torquay valley whilst
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Էջ 251 - ABTU is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree Fahrenheit.
Էջ 138 - The tide did now its flood-mark gain, And girdled in the Saint's domain : For, with the flow and ebb, its style Varies from continent to isle ; Dry-shod, o'er sands, twice every day, The pilgrims to the shrine find way ; Twice every day, the waves efface Of staves and sandall'd feet the trace.
Էջ 75 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Էջ 262 - Our outward life requires them not — Then wherefore had they birth ? — To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth ; To comfort man — to whisper hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so careth for the flowers Will much more care for him ! Mary Howitt.
Էջ 514 - Sed me Parnassi deserta per ardua dulcis Raptat amor; juvat ire jugis. qua nulla priorum Castaliam molli devertitur orbita clivo.
Էջ 301 - In chase of him ; whereat 1 waked in terror, And saw the sea before me, and the book, In which I had been reading, at my side.
Էջ 286 - Beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters That doat upon each other, friends to man, Living together under the same roof, And never can be sunder'd without tears.
Էջ 301 - the waters of the deep Gathering upon us"; quickening then the pace Of the unwieldy creature he bestrode, He left me: I called after him aloud; He heeded not; but, with his twofold charge Still in his grasp, before me, full in view, Went hurrying o'er the illimitable waste, With the fleet waters of a drowning world...
Էջ 76 - The charms to work do straight begin, And he was caught as in a gin ; For as he thus was busy, A pain he in his head-piece feels, Against a stubbed tree he reels, And up went poor Hobgoblin's heels ; Alas ! his brain was dizzy ! At length upon his feet he gets, Hobgoblin fumes, Hobgoblin frets ; And as again he forward sets, And through the bushes scrambles, A stump doth trip him in his pace ; Down comes poor Hob upon his face, And lamentably tore his case, Amongst the briars and brambles.
Էջ 284 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the British Empire with one another, and with foreign philosophers ; to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.