The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... portion , the reasoning is markedly close , shrewd , and intelligible - the facts are evidently at the finger's end of the author - and the most unwilling , cautious , and antago nistic reader is compelled to yield his thorough assent ...
... portion , the reasoning is markedly close , shrewd , and intelligible - the facts are evidently at the finger's end of the author - and the most unwilling , cautious , and antago nistic reader is compelled to yield his thorough assent ...
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... portion of the first chapter was submitted to the public a year or two earlier , in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal . The rest , amounting to about two thirds of the whole , appears for the first time . Every such work has its defects ...
... portion of the first chapter was submitted to the public a year or two earlier , in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal . The rest , amounting to about two thirds of the whole , appears for the first time . Every such work has its defects ...
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... portion of the knowledge of the practical geologist , I am indebted for several of the draw- ings ; that of fig . 2 in Plate V. , fig . 1 in Plate VI . , fig . 2 in Plate VIII . , and figs . 3 and 4 in plate IX . I am indebted to ...
... portion of the knowledge of the practical geologist , I am indebted for several of the draw- ings ; that of fig . 2 in Plate V. , fig . 1 in Plate VI . , fig . 2 in Plate VIII . , and figs . 3 and 4 in plate IX . I am indebted to ...
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... Portion of wing , natural size . - PLATE III . Fig . 1 , Coccosteus cuspidatus . Fig . 2 , Impression of inner surface of large dorsal plate . Fig . 3 , Abdominal lozenge - shaped plate . Fig . 4 , Portion of jaw , with teeth . - PLATE ...
... Portion of wing , natural size . - PLATE III . Fig . 1 , Coccosteus cuspidatus . Fig . 2 , Impression of inner surface of large dorsal plate . Fig . 3 , Abdominal lozenge - shaped plate . Fig . 4 , Portion of jaw , with teeth . - PLATE ...
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... portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the com- mon lot . I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods a reader of curious books when I could get them a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was ...
... portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the com- mon lot . I had been a wanderer among rocks and woods a reader of curious books when I could get them a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was ...
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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.
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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...