| Sir David Brewster, Robert Jameson - Science - 1822 - 458 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
| Otto von Kotzebue - Discoveries in geography - 1821 - 468 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - Science - 1822 - 508 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so. penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breakes off in... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips - Geology - 1822 - 568 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips - Geology - 1822 - 592 pages
...by the continual throwing up of new materials, ' gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off jn flakes.... | |
| English literature - 1822 - 582 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...seasons of the year by the high tides. The heat of A"A ii the the sun »o penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 608 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
| 1823 - 602 pages
...strengthened by the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it is covered only during some...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
| Education - 1826 - 408 pages
...up of new materials, gradually increase* in thickness, till it at last becomes so high, that it it covered only during some seasons of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
| 1829 - 436 pages
...the continual throwing up of new materials, gradually increases in thickness, till it becomes at last so high, that it is covered only during some seasons...of the year by the high tides. The heat of the sun so penetrates the mass of stone, when it is dry, that it splits in many places, and breaks off in flakes.... | |
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