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... Formation in Scotland - In Geologic History all Ages contem- porary - Amber the Resin of the Pinus succinifer - A Vegetable Produc- tion of the Middle Tertiary Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The Masses of Insects enclosed in it - The ...
... Formation in Scotland - In Geologic History all Ages contem- porary - Amber the Resin of the Pinus succinifer - A Vegetable Produc- tion of the Middle Tertiary Ages - Its Properties and Uses - The Masses of Insects enclosed in it - The ...
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... Formation - The Middle Formation the most abundant in Organic Remains - Destruction of Animal Life in the Formation sudden and violent - The Asterolepis and Coccosteus - The Silurian the Oldest of the Geologic Systems - That in which ...
... Formation - The Middle Formation the most abundant in Organic Remains - Destruction of Animal Life in the Formation sudden and violent - The Asterolepis and Coccosteus - The Silurian the Oldest of the Geologic Systems - That in which ...
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... formation . Let no one imagine that because the bony characters in the jaw and teeth of the Plagiaulax of the Purbeck strata are such as the comparative anatomist might have expected to find among existing marsupials , and that the ...
... formation . Let no one imagine that because the bony characters in the jaw and teeth of the Plagiaulax of the Purbeck strata are such as the comparative anatomist might have expected to find among existing marsupials , and that the ...
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... formation of red grit and sandstone ; but the exact relations of this to the crystalline rocks was not ascertained , owing to bad weather . In the meantime , they , as well as all subsequent geologists , had erred in believing the great ...
... formation of red grit and sandstone ; but the exact relations of this to the crystalline rocks was not ascertained , owing to bad weather . In the meantime , they , as well as all subsequent geologists , had erred in believing the great ...
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... formation immediately above it . It will be observed , however , that the existence of reptiles in the Old Red did not rest altogether upon this , because the foot- prints of large animals of the same class had been ascer- tained in the ...
... formation immediately above it . It will be observed , however , that the existence of reptiles in the Old Red did not rest altogether upon this , because the foot- prints of large animals of the same class had been ascer- tained in 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.