The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... Bones , Fins , Teeth , and general Ap- pearance . Sponge - like · Contemporaries of the Holoptychius . Bodies . Plates resembling those of the Sturgeon . — Teeth of various forms , but all evidently the teeth of fishes . - Lime- stone ...
... Bones , Fins , Teeth , and general Ap- pearance . Sponge - like · Contemporaries of the Holoptychius . Bodies . Plates resembling those of the Sturgeon . — Teeth of various forms , but all evidently the teeth of fishes . - Lime- stone ...
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... bone , and furnished with but one solitary rudder- like fin ; other fish less equivocal in their form , but with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales ; crea- tures bristling over with thorns ; others glistening in an ...
... bone , and furnished with but one solitary rudder- like fin ; other fish less equivocal in their form , but with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales ; crea- tures bristling over with thorns ; others glistening in an ...
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... bone . And such has been his principle of nomenclature . The name is a condensed description . But though all his names mean something , they cannot mean a great deal ; and as learned words repel unlearned readers , I shall just take ...
... bone . And such has been his principle of nomenclature . The name is a condensed description . But though all his names mean something , they cannot mean a great deal ; and as learned words repel unlearned readers , I shall just take ...
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... bones of his grandfather - a grand- father removed , of course , to a remote degree of consan- guinity , by the intervention of a few hundred thousand great - greats . Never yet was there a fancy so wild and ex- travagant but there have ...
... bones of his grandfather - a grand- father removed , of course , to a remote degree of consan- guinity , by the intervention of a few hundred thousand great - greats . Never yet was there a fancy so wild and ex- travagant but there have ...
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... bone , like those of fish of the common varieties , seem to have been cut out of the solid , like the teeth of a saw or the teeth in the mandibles of the beetle , or in the nippers of the lobster , ( Plate III . , fig . 4 ; ) and there ...
... bone , like those of fish of the common varieties , seem to have been cut out of the solid , like the teeth of a saw or the teeth in the mandibles of the beetle , or in the nippers of the lobster , ( Plate III . , fig . 4 ; ) and there ...
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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.
Página 56 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Página 234 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
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...