The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... a volume on the Old Red Sandstone , Honored Sir , With sincere gratitude and respect , Your obedient humble Servant , EDINBURGH , May 1 , 1841 . HUGH MILLER . PREFACE . NEARLY one third of the present volume appeared vi DEDICATION .
... a volume on the Old Red Sandstone , Honored Sir , With sincere gratitude and respect , Your obedient humble Servant , EDINBURGH , May 1 , 1841 . HUGH MILLER . PREFACE . NEARLY one third of the present volume appeared vi DEDICATION .
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Or, New Walks in an Old Field Hugh Miller. PREFACE . NEARLY one third of the present volume appeared a few months ago in the form of a series of sketches in the Wit- ness newspaper . A portion of the first chapter was submitted to the ...
Or, New Walks in an Old Field Hugh Miller. PREFACE . NEARLY one third of the present volume appeared a few months ago in the form of a series of sketches in the Wit- ness newspaper . A portion of the first chapter was submitted to the ...
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... nearly thirty feet , and which at this time was rent and shivered , wherever it pre- sented an open front to the weather , by a recent frost . A heap of loose fragments , which had fallen from above , blocked up the face of the quarry ...
... nearly thirty feet , and which at this time was rent and shivered , wherever it pre- sented an open front to the weather , by a recent frost . A heap of loose fragments , which had fallen from above , blocked up the face of the quarry ...
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... 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 much as usual . It was no small matter , too , that the evening , converted , by a rare ...
... 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 much as usual . It was no small matter , too , that the evening , converted , by a rare ...
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... nearly ten years ere I had ascertained that it is richly fossiliferous a discovery which , in exploring this formation . in those localities , some of our first geologists had failed to anticipate . I was acquainted with it for nearly ...
... nearly ten years ere I had ascertained that it is richly fossiliferous a discovery which , in exploring this formation . in those localities , some of our first geologists had failed to anticipate . I was acquainted with it for nearly ...
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