Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in Reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science Respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar SystemHarper & brothers, 1870 - 459 páginas |
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... surface of the sea , and if ever the sea stood at this level the greater part of the continent must have been sub- merged . But have we not a record of such a submer- gence ? Yes , indeed ; the sacred writers tell us of a deluge which ...
... surface of the sea , and if ever the sea stood at this level the greater part of the continent must have been sub- merged . But have we not a record of such a submer- gence ? Yes , indeed ; the sacred writers tell us of a deluge which ...
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... surface of the marble . For twelve feet above their pedestals these pillars are smooth and uninjured . Above this is a zone of about nine feet , throughout which the mar- ble is perforated with numerous holes . Exploring these holes ...
... surface of the marble . For twelve feet above their pedestals these pillars are smooth and uninjured . Above this is a zone of about nine feet , throughout which the mar- ble is perforated with numerous holes . Exploring these holes ...
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... surface of the water ? There evidently has been a time when the whole column , to the height of these Lithodomi , was submerged . The oscillations of the surface , therefore , as shown by these indications , were , first , a subsidence ...
... surface of the water ? There evidently has been a time when the whole column , to the height of these Lithodomi , was submerged . The oscillations of the surface , therefore , as shown by these indications , were , first , a subsidence ...
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... surface of the sea . The island of Grand Manan , off the mouth of the St. Croix River , is slowly rotating on an axis , so that , while the south side is gradually dipping beneath the waves , the north is lifted into high bluffs . Near ...
... surface of the sea . The island of Grand Manan , off the mouth of the St. Croix River , is slowly rotating on an axis , so that , while the south side is gradually dipping beneath the waves , the north is lifted into high bluffs . Near ...
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... surface ; and the material for them has been ground from the rocky shores of ancient islands and continents by the beating of the waves . If they have thus been distributed by the action of water , it has been a slow process . Admitting ...
... surface ; and the material for them has been ground from the rocky shores of ancient islands and continents by the beating of the waves . If they have thus been distributed by the action of water , it has been a slow process . Admitting ...
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