The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... exhibited , in its succes- sive formations , this gradation of bulk , beginning with an age of dwarfs , and ending with an age of giants . Since then , it has been ascertained that there were giants among the dwarfs . The remains of one ...
... exhibited , in its succes- sive formations , this gradation of bulk , beginning with an age of dwarfs , and ending with an age of giants . Since then , it has been ascertained that there were giants among the dwarfs . The remains of one ...
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... exhibited in the 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 ...
... exhibited in the 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 ...
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... exhibited in a vertical section not more than three hundred yards in extent . And yet so enormous is the depth of the deposit in Caithness , that it has been deemed by a very supe- rior geologist to represent three entire formations the ...
... exhibited in a vertical section not more than three hundred yards in extent . And yet so enormous is the depth of the deposit in Caithness , that it has been deemed by a very supe- rior geologist to represent three entire formations the ...
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... exhibited in one of my specimens , the creature seems to stand - is of con- siderable length , more than equal to a third of the entire fig- ure , and of an angular form , the base representing the part attached to the body , and the ...
... exhibited in one of my specimens , the creature seems to stand - is of con- siderable length , more than equal to a third of the entire fig- ure , and of an angular form , the base representing the part attached to the body , and the ...
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... exhibited , and preparations of the external form , in which the whole body is shown in profile , with the fins spread to the full , and at least half the bones of the head covered by the skin but in which the vertebral column and ...
... exhibited , and preparations of the external form , in which the whole body is shown in profile , with the fins spread to the full , and at least half the bones of the head covered by the skin but in which the vertebral column and ...
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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...