The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old FieldGould and Lincoln, 1851 - 264 páginas |
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... tail of elongated species , showing portions of the original covering of rhomboidal scales . Fig . 4 , Tu- bercles of Pterichthys magnified . - PLATE II . Fig . 2 , Restoration of under side of Pterichthys ob- longus . Fig . 1 , A ...
... tail of elongated species , showing portions of the original covering of rhomboidal scales . Fig . 4 , Tu- bercles of Pterichthys magnified . - PLATE II . Fig . 2 , Restoration of under side of Pterichthys ob- longus . Fig . 1 , A ...
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... tail flaps of the gigantic Crusta- cean of Forfarshire . Fig . 2 , Reticulated markings of Carmylie . PLATE X. - Fig . 1 , Cephalaspis Lyellii , copied from Lyell's Elements of Geology . Fig . 2 , Holoptychius nobilissimus , copied on a ...
... tail flaps of the gigantic Crusta- cean of Forfarshire . Fig . 2 , Reticulated markings of Carmylie . PLATE X. - Fig . 1 , Cephalaspis Lyellii , copied from Lyell's Elements of Geology . Fig . 2 , Holoptychius nobilissimus , copied on a ...
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... tail , in every in- stance among the less equivocal shapes , formed not equally , as in existing fish , on each side the central vertebral column , but chiefly on the lower side the column sending out its - - diminished vertebræ to the ...
... tail , in every in- stance among the less equivocal shapes , formed not equally , as in existing fish , on each side the central vertebral column , but chiefly on the lower side the column sending out its - - diminished vertebræ to the ...
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... tail to the head -- and you will find species of fish quite similar , scaly or without scales . All species of parrots , whose plumages are so different , the rarest and the most singu- lar - marked birds , are , conformable to fact ...
... tail to the head -- and you will find species of fish quite similar , scaly or without scales . All species of parrots , whose plumages are so different , the rarest and the most singu- lar - marked birds , are , conformable to fact ...
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... tail by which to steer . And yet there are none of the fossils of the Old Red Sandstone which less resemble any thing that now exists than its Pterichthys . I fain wish I could communicate to the reader the feeling with which I ...
... tail by which to steer . And yet there are none of the fossils of the Old Red Sandstone which less resemble any thing that now exists than its Pterichthys . I fain wish I could communicate to the reader the feeling with which I ...
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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 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...