Sketch Book of Popular Geology: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of EdinburghGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 423 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 45
... feet of peat , there occur irregularly oval pavements of stone , overlaid often by a layer of wood- ashes , and surrounded by portions of hazel stakes , — the - remains , apparently , of such primitive huts as those LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
... feet of peat , there occur irregularly oval pavements of stone , overlaid often by a layer of wood- ashes , and surrounded by portions of hazel stakes , — the - remains , apparently , of such primitive huts as those LECTURES ON GEOLOGY .
Página 46
... feet high , it consisted of two stories , each about four feet in height . One side of the building was entirely open , and a stone chisel was found on the floor , - indicating that this ancient domicile belonged to the stone period ...
... feet high , it consisted of two stories , each about four feet in height . One side of the building was entirely open , and a stone chisel was found on the floor , - indicating that this ancient domicile belonged to the stone period ...
Página 51
... feet . At some unascertained period , regarded as recent by the geologist , for man seems to have been an actor on the scene at the time , - but remote - - by the historian , for its date is anterior LECTURES ON GEOLOGY . 51.
... feet . At some unascertained period , regarded as recent by the geologist , for man seems to have been an actor on the scene at the time , - but remote - - by the historian , for its date is anterior LECTURES ON GEOLOGY . 51.
Página 53
... feet over it . It is strongly marked on the southern side of the Dornoch Frith , immediately below and for sev- eral miles to the east of the town of Tain , where it attains a breadth of from one to two miles , and where the old sea ...
... feet over it . It is strongly marked on the southern side of the Dornoch Frith , immediately below and for sev- eral miles to the east of the town of Tain , where it attains a breadth of from one to two miles , and where the old sea ...
Página 59
... feet lower than now , and the waves broke at full tide against the old coast line . " The skeleton of a Balæ- noptera , " says Professor Owen , " seventy - two feet in length , was found , " about thirty years ago , " imbedded in the ...
... feet lower than now , and the waves broke at full tide against the old coast line . " The skeleton of a Balæ- noptera , " says Professor Owen , " seventy - two feet in length , was found , " about thirty years ago , " imbedded in the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous caves Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus color cone contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth diameters earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished geological geologist glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred inches island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark mass miles molluscs moraine Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occupied occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptiles resemble ridge rising river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees upper valley vast vegetable waves
Pasajes populares
Página 270 - Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under ? There are a thousand such elsewhere As worthy of your wonder.
Página 197 - 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.
Página 139 - 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.
Página 287 - 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...
Página 238 - The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold ; the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee ; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble ; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear
Página 194 - Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...
Página 284 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey 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 shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Página 241 - Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deaden'd clang, — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing round.