The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... Course of - - half an Hour's Walk . - - The little Bay . Its Strata and their PAGE Organisms , 95-108 CHAPTER VII . Further Discoveries of the Ichthyolite Beds . - Found in one Locality under a Bed of Peat . Discovered in another be ...
... Course of - - half an Hour's Walk . - - The little Bay . Its Strata and their PAGE Organisms , 95-108 CHAPTER VII . Further Discoveries of the Ichthyolite Beds . - Found in one Locality under a Bed of Peat . Discovered in another be ...
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... course of life I had so much dreaded . To be sure , my hands were a little sore , and I felt nearly as much fatigued as if I had been climbing among the rocks ; but I had wrought and been use- ful , and had yet enjoyed the day fully as ...
... course of life I had so much dreaded . To be sure , my hands were a little sore , and I felt nearly as much fatigued as if I had been climbing among the rocks ; but I had wrought and been use- ful , and had yet enjoyed the day fully as ...
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... course of the afternoon . They were of different qualities from the Sandstone below , and from one another ; and , what was more wonderful still , they were all rounded and water- worn , as if they had been tossed about in the sea , or ...
... course of the afternoon . They were of different qualities from the Sandstone below , and from one another ; and , what was more wonderful still , they were all rounded and water- worn , as if they had been tossed about in the sea , or ...
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... course of the first day's employment , I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone , and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer . Wonderful to relate , it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture - one of the volutes ...
... course of the first day's employment , I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone , and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer . Wonderful to relate , it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture - one of the volutes ...
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... course of the evening , burns with a powerful flame , and emits a strong bituminous odor . The layers into which the beds readily separate are hardly an eighth part of an inch in thickness , and yet on every layer there are the ...
... course of the evening , burns with a powerful flame , and emits a strong bituminous odor . The layers into which the beds readily separate are hardly an eighth part of an inch in thickness , and yet on every layer there are the ...
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