The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... comparatively narrow stripe in the system in England ; the answering formation in Scotland , e , f , g , h , is of such enormous thickness , that it has been held by very superior geologists to contain three distinct formations e , the ...
... comparatively narrow stripe in the system in England ; the answering formation in Scotland , e , f , g , h , is of such enormous thickness , that it has been held by very superior geologists to contain three distinct formations e , the ...
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... comparatively little for you , and a great deal for themselves . But upper and lower classes there must be , so long as the world lasts ; and there is only one way in which your jealousy of them can be well directed . Do not let them ...
... comparatively little for you , and a great deal for themselves . But upper and lower classes there must be , so long as the world lasts ; and there is only one way in which your jealousy of them can be well directed . Do not let them ...
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... comparatively a modern forma- tion — which had been dug out of the sides of the Himalaya mountains , seventeen thousand feet over the level of the sea . But let us strive to carry our minds back , not to the place of sepulture of these ...
... comparatively a modern forma- tion — which had been dug out of the sides of the Himalaya mountains , seventeen thousand feet over the level of the sea . But let us strive to carry our minds back , not to the place of sepulture of these ...
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... comparatively slender ; in others shorter , and of greater breadth : in some there is an inflection resem- bling the bend of an elbow ; in others there is a continuous swelling from the termination to the shoulder , where a sudden ...
... comparatively slender ; in others shorter , and of greater breadth : in some there is an inflection resem- bling the bend of an elbow ; in others there is a continuous swelling from the termination to the shoulder , where a sudden ...
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... comparatively stout at their base , and slender as hairs where they terminate . The shoulder - bones are of huge dimensions , the teeth extremely minute . But the most characteristic parts of the creature are the scales . They are of ...
... comparatively stout at their base , and slender as hairs where they terminate . The shoulder - bones are of huge dimensions , the teeth extremely minute . But the most characteristic parts of the creature are the scales . They are of ...
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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...