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Page 11
... coast of Cornwall , consolidated into a kind of open - grained sandstone , -contain , like the mosses of the country , ancient human remains and works of art . There have been detected among the older sand dunes of Moray , broken or ...
... coast of Cornwall , consolidated into a kind of open - grained sandstone , -contain , like the mosses of the country , ancient human remains and works of art . There have been detected among the older sand dunes of Moray , broken or ...
Page 69
... Moray Firth as the ' Travelled Stone of Petty , ' - a district which includes the Moor of Cul- loden , and at whose parish church Hector Boece saw the gigantic bones of the colossal Little John . The Clach dhu n - Aban , or black stone ...
... Moray Firth as the ' Travelled Stone of Petty , ' - a district which includes the Moor of Cul- loden , and at whose parish church Hector Boece saw the gigantic bones of the colossal Little John . The Clach dhu n - Aban , or black stone ...
Page 113
... Moray Firth . In Aberdeenshire , however , some twenty miles or so to the north of the city , in the parish of Ellon and some of the contiguous parishes , and running at a considerable distance inland in a line nearly parallel to the coast ...
... Moray Firth . In Aberdeenshire , however , some twenty miles or so to the north of the city , in the parish of Ellon and some of the contiguous parishes , and running at a considerable distance inland in a line nearly parallel to the coast ...
Page 132
... Moray Firth , too , with that remarkable line of hills which includes the Sutors of Cromarty , pertains to this system , as also the higher mountain range which rises along the coast of Suther- land , and to which the Ord Hill of ...
... Moray Firth , too , with that remarkable line of hills which includes the Sutors of Cromarty , pertains to this system , as also the higher mountain range which rises along the coast of Suther- land , and to which the Ord Hill of ...
Page 135
... Moray Firth , in the counties of Moray and Banff , but merely as outliers of very limited extent , and sorely broken up or ground down by the denuding Pleistocene agencies . On the western coast of Scotland the Lias may be seen on the ...
... Moray Firth , in the counties of Moray and Banff , but merely as outliers of very limited extent , and sorely broken up or ground down by the denuding Pleistocene agencies . On the western coast of Scotland the Lias may be seen on the ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cones contains Crag Crag and Tail creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish débris deposits depth district earth elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished ganoid geologic geologist glacial glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow hundred icebergs island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Moray Firth mosses neighbourhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Paleozoic peculiar period Pleistocene polished portion precipices present remains reptile resemble rise river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
Popular passages
Page 94 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 147 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Page 228 - Gray birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Page 289 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 212 - This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species.
Page 185 - His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Page 230 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Page 107 - Then, awed to silence, they trode the strand Where furnaced pillars in order stand, All framed of the liquid burning levin, And bent like the bow that spans the heaven, Or upright ranged in horrid array, With purfle of green o'er the darksome gray.
Page 74 - And here awhile the Muse, High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene. Sees Caledonia, in romantic view : Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a keen diffusive sky, Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge...
Page 184 - Who can discover the face of his garment ? Or who can come to him with his double bridle ? Who can open the doors of his face ? His teeth are terrible round about.