Sketch Book of Popular Geology: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of EdinburghGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 423 páginas |
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... nature , and , I trust , with nature's God , -the perennial springs of whose bounty are seldom quaffed in this manner as they ought to be , -I trust that much , much happiness is in store for you and for the other gentlemen of the ...
... nature , and , I trust , with nature's God , -the perennial springs of whose bounty are seldom quaffed in this manner as they ought to be , -I trust that much , much happiness is in store for you and for the other gentlemen of the ...
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... Natural and Artificial , found under them- The Sand Dunes of Scotland - Human Remains and Works of Art found in them -An Old Church Disinterred in 1835 on the Coast of Cornwall - Controversy regarding it - Ancient Scotch Barony ...
... Natural and Artificial , found under them- The Sand Dunes of Scotland - Human Remains and Works of Art found in them -An Old Church Disinterred in 1835 on the Coast of Cornwall - Controversy regarding it - Ancient Scotch Barony ...
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... Nature its Poetry - The Tertiary Forma- tion in Scotland Amber the In Geologic History all Ages contemporary Resin of the Pinus Succinifer- A Vegetable Production of the Middle Tertiary - - -The Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The ...
... Nature its Poetry - The Tertiary Forma- tion in Scotland Amber the In Geologic History all Ages contemporary Resin of the Pinus Succinifer- A Vegetable Production of the Middle Tertiary - - -The Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The ...
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... circumstances would probably , more or less , if not alto- gether , have disappeared . Yet it may well be doubted whether - the natural method does not possess a charm which INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCI- ENCE,
... circumstances would probably , more or less , if not alto- gether , have disappeared . Yet it may well be doubted whether - the natural method does not possess a charm which INTRODUCTORY RÉSUMÉ OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCI- ENCE,
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... natural method does not possess a charm which any more formal arrangement would have wanted . Every one must be struck with the freshness , buoyancy , and vigor displayed in the " Summer Rambles ; " — qualities more apparent in these ...
... natural method does not possess a charm which any more formal arrangement would have wanted . Every one must be struck with the freshness , buoyancy , and vigor displayed in the " Summer Rambles ; " — qualities more apparent in these ...
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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
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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.