The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, Volumen6Dawson., 1861 |
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... feet high , but often reaching a height of twenty - five or thirty feet , and its stem a diameter of eight or nine inches . The new shoots are of grayish green , covered with down , those of the previous year are purple with slight ...
... feet high , but often reaching a height of twenty - five or thirty feet , and its stem a diameter of eight or nine inches . The new shoots are of grayish green , covered with down , those of the previous year are purple with slight ...
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... feet in diameter is made of small willows , or branches of trees , loosely planted in the snow , and about four feet high . Two entrances are left at the opposite sides , each fitted with a snare . In the centre of the enclosure , the ...
... feet in diameter is made of small willows , or branches of trees , loosely planted in the snow , and about four feet high . Two entrances are left at the opposite sides , each fitted with a snare . In the centre of the enclosure , the ...
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... feet , weight about 50 lbs . This is the only species of Wolf in the Mackenzie River District but I am inclined to divide it into two varieties ; the dark grey , or the strong wood , and the white , or barren ground . These two are ...
... feet , weight about 50 lbs . This is the only species of Wolf in the Mackenzie River District but I am inclined to divide it into two varieties ; the dark grey , or the strong wood , and the white , or barren ground . These two are ...
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... feet deep , broader at the bottom than at the top , is dug during the summer . It is covered with twigs and grass , and after the first fall of snow bears the same appearance as the surround- ing ground . In the centre of the hole the ...
... feet deep , broader at the bottom than at the top , is dug during the summer . It is covered with twigs and grass , and after the first fall of snow bears the same appearance as the surround- ing ground . In the centre of the hole the ...
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... feet broad and well covered , and the colour is generally pure white , though other shades are not uncommon . It is said , with what correctness I cannot venture to say , that the voice of the Esquimaux dog in its native wilds is not a ...
... feet broad and well covered , and the colour is generally pure white , though other shades are not uncommon . It is said , with what correctness I cannot venture to say , that the voice of the Esquimaux dog in its native wilds is not a ...
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Abundant America animal appear Barrande beds birds brown Calciferous Canada Canadensis Canadian Naturalist Carboniferous character coal coast colour common containing crystalline deposits Devonian district eggs elevation Fabr feet formation Fort Simpson fossils Gaspé genera genus geologists gneiss gold graptolites grey hairs Hamilton's Farm Hudson River Huron inches Incisors Indian Island Lake Huron Lake Superior Laurentian limestone lines Linn Logan Lower Canada Lower Silurian mineral molars Montcalm Montreal mountains Natural History Society nearly observed occur Olenus paleozoic petroleum places plants Point Levi Potsdam present probably Prof quartz Quebec Quebec group region remarkable rocks rocky Rouge round sand sandstone second fauna sediments seen shales shells shore side Sir William Logan slates species specimens strata surface Taconic tail thick tion trilobites upper V.S.P. Length valley warblers woods
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Página 390 - Just previous to this time, in the Report of the Regents of the University of New York, for 1859, Professor Hall had described and figured by the name of Olenus two species of trilobites from the slates of Georgia, Vermont, which Emmons had wrongly referred to the genus Paradoxides. They were at once recognized by Barrande, who called attention to their primordial character, and thus...
Página 95 - ... like those of the Appalachian range. In truth, Mr. Hall observes, the carboniferous limestone is one of the most extensive marine formations of the continent, and is characterized over a much greater area by its marine fauna than by its terrestrial vegetation. " The accumulations of the coal period were the last that gave form and contour to the eastern side of our continent, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico ; and as we have shown that the great sedimentary deposits of successive...
Página 197 - ... to furnish important collateral evidence in support of the reasoning founded on other sciences, such as philology and ethnology, which has long demanded, for the development of our race, a number of years far exceeding that which is allowed by the chronology previously received. It is the beautiful expression of Sir Thomas Browne, which I find quoted by Dr Mantell in a former paper on this subject, that " Time conferreth a dignity upon the most trifling thing that resisteth his power...
Página 240 - ... animals ; the latter is not surprising when we consider that a considerable portion of the tissues of the lower marine animals is destitute of nitrogen, and very similar in chemical composition to the woody fibre of plants.
Página 90 - Hall, shown to be the natural base of the Silurian rocks in America, as Barrande and De Verneuil have proved it to be on the continent...
Página 332 - as many as two hundred of these concretions, varying in size from that of a small pea to that of a hazel-nut, to be passed after the administration of a single dose of Podophyllin and the Oil.
Página 93 - Quebec group is of considerable economic interest inasmuch as it is the great metalliferous formation of North America. To it belongs the gold which is found along the Appalachian chain from Canada to Georgia, together with lead, zinc, copper,, silver, cobalt, nickel, chrome and titanium. I have long since called attention to the constant association of the latter metals, particularly chrome and nickel, with the ophiolites and magnesian rocks of this series, while they are wanting in similar rocks...
Página 404 - zone primordiale" of Bohemia — having no representative in the north-western Highlands, there is necessarily a complete unconformity between the fossil-bearing crystalline limestone and quartz-rocks with the Maclurea, Murchisonia, Orphile'ta, Orthis, Orthoceratites, etc., and those Cambrian rocks on which they rest. A great revolution in the ideas of many an old geologist, including myself, has thus been effected. Strengthened and confirmed as my view has been by the concordant testimony of Ramsay,...
Página 102 - bottom strata to establish lines of weakness or of least resistance in the earth's crust, and thus determine the contraction which results from the cooling of the globe to exhibit itself in those regions, and along those lines where the ocean's bed is subsiding beneath the accumulated sediments...
Página 327 - Ocean, and divided into two slopes by a watershed that nearly follows the political boundaryline, and throws the drainage to the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean. The northern part of this plateau has a slope, from the Rocky Mountains to the eastern or Laurentian axis, of six feet in the mile, but is broken by steppes, which exhibit lines of ancient denudation at three different levels ; the lowest is of freshwater origin ; the next belongs to the Driftdeposits, and the highest is the great Prairie-level...