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 46
Página vi
... Standing - Stone of Torribal - Elevation of the Land during the Post - Tertiary Period which succeeded the Period of the Boulder - Clay- The Alpine Plants of Scotland the Vegetable Aborigines of the Country - Panoramic View of the ...
... Standing - Stone of Torribal - Elevation of the Land during the Post - Tertiary Period which succeeded the Period of the Boulder - Clay- The Alpine Plants of Scotland the Vegetable Aborigines of the Country - Panoramic View of the ...
Página 21
... standing , of the loose and dubious phraseology in which they sometimes indulge , and which serves greatly to perplex , if not to lead to very erroneous conclusions . " In respect to no one class of animals , " says Professor Owen , in ...
... standing , of the loose and dubious phraseology in which they sometimes indulge , and which serves greatly to perplex , if not to lead to very erroneous conclusions . " In respect to no one class of animals , " says Professor Owen , in ...
Página 34
... stand , these last two would have formed their natural climax or peroration . And , accordingly , I entertained some thought of republishing them here , in order that the reader might enjoy the advantage of having the whole under his ...
... stand , these last two would have formed their natural climax or peroration . And , accordingly , I entertained some thought of republishing them here , in order that the reader might enjoy the advantage of having the whole under his ...
Página 41
... standing stones , and curiously - poised cromlechs . The bronze tool or weapon has also its associated class of antiquities , —— massive ornaments of gold , boats built of plank , and , as a modern shipwright would express himself ...
... standing stones , and curiously - poised cromlechs . The bronze tool or weapon has also its associated class of antiquities , —— massive ornaments of gold , boats built of plank , and , as a modern shipwright would express himself ...
Página 60
... stands , three ancient boats- one of which may be seen in the Museum of our Scottish Antiquaries in Edinburgh , and another in the Andersonian Museum - have been dug up since the year 1781 ; the last only four years ago . One of the ...
... stands , three ancient boats- one of which may be seen in the Museum of our Scottish Antiquaries in Edinburgh , and another in the Andersonian Museum - have been dug up since the year 1781 ; the last only four years ago . One of 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.