The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... rising at times to eloquence , and always impressing the reader with the idea that he is brought in contact with great thoughts . Where it is necessary , there are engravings to illustrate the geological remains . The whole work forms ...
... rising at times to eloquence , and always impressing the reader with the idea that he is brought in contact with great thoughts . Where it is necessary , there are engravings to illustrate the geological remains . The whole work forms ...
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... rising high on the neighboring hills . It is unques- tionably no slight advantage to be placed , at that early stage of life , when the mind collects its facts with greatest avidity , and the curiosity is most active , in localities ...
... rising high on the neighboring hills . It is unques- tionably no slight advantage to be placed , at that early stage of life , when the mind collects its facts with greatest avidity , and the curiosity is most active , in localities ...
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... patches , and often in large tracts . Many fishes have been found in it at Caithness , and various organic remains in the northern part of the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . 2 * THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 17.
... patches , and often in large tracts . Many fishes have been found in it at Caithness , and various organic remains in the northern part of the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . 2 * THE OLD RED SANDSTONE . 17.
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Or, New Walks in an Old Field Hugh Miller. the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . Let the reader imagine a digest of English history , complete from the times of the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the reign of that Harold ...
Or, New Walks in an Old Field Hugh Miller. the one rising in beautiful progression over the other . Let the reader imagine a digest of English history , complete from the times of the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the reign of that Harold ...
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... rising over and out of the other , like the cases of an opera - glass drawn out . is composed of gneiss and mica - slate , the The lower zone middle zone of granite , the terminating zone of porphyry . The elevating THE OLD RED ...
... rising over and out of the other , like the cases of an opera - glass drawn out . is composed of gneiss and mica - slate , the The lower zone middle zone of granite , the terminating zone of porphyry . The elevating THE OLD RED ...
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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...