The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... he was the first to distinguish and describe , and from which , as from the meridian line of the geographer , the geological scale has been graduated on both sides . I a * 1 have thought of the circumstance when , on visiting in.
... he was the first to distinguish and describe , and from which , as from the meridian line of the geographer , the geological scale has been graduated on both sides . I a * 1 have thought of the circumstance when , on visiting in.
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... side of the elongated spe- cies of Pterichthys , ( P. oblongus , ) referred to in page 47. Fig . 2 , Pterichthys Milleri . Fig . 3 , Part of tail of elongated species , showing portions of the original covering of rhomboidal scales ...
... side of the elongated spe- cies of Pterichthys , ( P. oblongus , ) referred to in page 47. Fig . 2 , Pterichthys Milleri . Fig . 3 , Part of tail of elongated species , showing portions of the original covering of rhomboidal scales ...
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... side , and a thick fir wood on the other . It had been opened in the Old Red Sandstone of the district , and was overtopped by a huge bank of diluvial clay , which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet , and ...
... side , and a thick fir wood on the other . It had been opened in the Old Red Sandstone of the district , and was overtopped by a huge bank of diluvial clay , which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet , and ...
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... side , like the foliage of a stately tree . Ben Wevis rose to the west , white with the yet unwasted snows of win- ter , and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere , as if all its sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been ...
... side , like the foliage of a stately tree . Ben Wevis rose to the west , white with the yet unwasted snows of win- ter , and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere , as if all its sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been ...
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... side , and convex on the upper . I learned in time to call this stone a belemnite , and became acquainted with enough of its history to know that it once formed part of a variety of cut- tle - fish , long since extinct . My first year ...
... side , and convex on the upper . I learned in time to call this stone a belemnite , and became acquainted with enough of its history to know that it once formed part of a variety of cut- tle - fish , long since extinct . My first year ...
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