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Page xviii
... Considerable misconception has arisen on this head . The Middle Purbeck beds , recently explored by Mr. Beckles , in which various small mammals were found , occur considerably farther up than the Stones- field slates , in which the ...
... Considerable misconception has arisen on this head . The Middle Purbeck beds , recently explored by Mr. Beckles , in which various small mammals were found , occur considerably farther up than the Stones- field slates , in which the ...
Page xxv
... considerable change in the GEOLOGY OF Scotland . The next edition of the Old Red Sandstone will be the most fitting place to speak of these at length ; and I have some reason to believe that Sir Roderick himself will then favour me with ...
... considerable change in the GEOLOGY OF Scotland . The next edition of the Old Red Sandstone will be the most fitting place to speak of these at length ; and I have some reason to believe that Sir Roderick himself will then favour me with ...
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... considerable distance , ' between Lough Rea and Lough Derg , the river Shannon was fordable at only one point , which of course formed the only medium of communi- cation between the natives of the two banks . They seem , however , ' it ...
... considerable distance , ' between Lough Rea and Lough Derg , the river Shannon was fordable at only one point , which of course formed the only medium of communi- cation between the natives of the two banks . They seem , however , ' it ...
Page 15
... considerably broader than that which we now see exposed by the ebb of every stream tide . And what I must deem indubitable marks of this change of level can be traced all around Scotland and its islands . The country , save in a few ...
... considerably broader than that which we now see exposed by the ebb of every stream tide . And what I must deem indubitable marks of this change of level can be traced all around Scotland and its islands . The country , save in a few ...
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... considerably longer period at the old coast line . The rock of which those remarkable pro- montories , the Sutors of Cromarty , are composed , is a granitic gneiss , much traversed by faults , and enclosing occasional masses of a soft ...
... considerably longer period at the old coast line . The rock of which those remarkable pro- montories , the Sutors of Cromarty , are composed , is a granitic gneiss , much traversed by faults , and enclosing occasional masses of a soft ...
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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.