The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... beautiful simplicity of truth ; and altogether possessing , for a rational reader , an interest superior to that of a novel . " - Dr . J. Pye Smith . " This admirable work evinces talent of the highest order , a deep and healthful mora ...
... beautiful simplicity of truth ; and altogether possessing , for a rational reader , an interest superior to that of a novel . " - Dr . J. Pye Smith . " This admirable work evinces talent of the highest order , a deep and healthful mora ...
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... and often in large tracts . Many fishes have been found in it at Caithness , and various organic remains in the northern part of the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . 2 * THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 17.
... and often in large tracts . Many fishes have been found in it at Caithness , and various organic remains in the northern part of the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . 2 * THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 17.
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Or, New Walks in an Old Field Hugh Miller. the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . Let the reader imagine a digest of English history , complete from the times of the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the reign of that Harold ...
Or, New Walks in an Old Field Hugh Miller. the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . Let the reader imagine a digest of English history , complete from the times of the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the reign of that Harold ...
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... beautiful ; but I am afraid I cannot adequately describe them . A ring of plates , like the ring - stones of an arch , runs along what may be called the hoop of the kite ; the form of the keystone - plate is perfect ; the shapes of the ...
... beautiful ; but I am afraid I cannot adequately describe them . A ring of plates , like the ring - stones of an arch , runs along what may be called the hoop of the kite ; the form of the keystone - plate is perfect ; the shapes of the ...
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... beautiful specimen of this central lozenge in the interesting collection of Professor Traill of Edinburgh , " What an appropriate ornament for a lady geologist ! " There are two marked peculiarities in the jaws of the Coccosteus , as ...
... beautiful specimen of this central lozenge in the interesting collection of Professor Traill of Edinburgh , " What an appropriate ornament for a lady geologist ! " There are two marked peculiarities in the jaws of the Coccosteus , as ...
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abundance acquainted Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery beautiful body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous fishes Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Christian Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit described diluvium Dipterus edge enamelled entire exhibited existing feet fins Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds illustration inch interest jaws Lias limestone lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum style surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite tubercles vast vegetable vertebral vertebral column volume writer
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Página 172 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
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Página 1 - ... column of smoke. It rose straight as the line of a plummet for more than a thousand yards, and then, on reaching a thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben...
Página 211 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the...
Página 56 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing — On superior...