The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... hundred different Coccostci ; but the positive evidence of one specimen outweighs the negative evidence of a hun- dred ; and I have just learned from a friend in the north , ( Mr. Patrick Duff , of Elgin , ) that a Coccosteus lately ...
... hundred different Coccostci ; but the positive evidence of one specimen outweighs the negative evidence of a hun- dred ; and I have just learned from a friend in the north , ( Mr. Patrick Duff , of Elgin , ) that a Coccosteus lately ...
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... hundred belem- nites had been figured and described ere a specimen turned up in which the horny prolongation , with its enclosed ink - bag , was found attached to the calcareous spindle ; and that even yet , after many thousand ...
... hundred belem- nites had been figured and described ere a specimen turned up in which the horny prolongation , with its enclosed ink - bag , was found attached to the calcareous spindle ; and that even yet , after many thousand ...
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... hundred times , without being the wiser , illustrate the difference between the philosopher and the common observer ; and the simple and pictorial style in which they are delineated renders the work peculiarly fas- cinating . This is a ...
... hundred times , without being the wiser , illustrate the difference between the philosopher and the common observer ; and the simple and pictorial style in which they are delineated renders the work peculiarly fas- cinating . This is a ...
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... hundred and five in the Old Red Sandstone alone , a formation which had been regarded as poorer in organisms than any other . In this edition was given the list of species , as determined and arranged by Professor Agassiz . Many ...
... hundred and five in the Old Red Sandstone alone , a formation which had been regarded as poorer in organisms than any other . In this edition was given the list of species , as determined and arranged by Professor Agassiz . Many ...
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... hundred times , when sailing my little schoon- er in the shallows left by the ebb . But what had become of the waves ... hundreds of years . There could not , surely , be a more conclusive proof that the bank which had enclosed them so ...
... hundred times , when sailing my little schoon- er in the shallows left by the ebb . But what had become of the waves ... hundreds of years . There could not , surely , be a more conclusive proof that the bank which had enclosed them so ...
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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...