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... least , to lessen the distance , and , in some small measure , to bridge over the chasm , between Paleozoic and Secondary life . And yet , considering the vast change which then passed over our planet , -that all specific forms died out ...
... least , to lessen the distance , and , in some small measure , to bridge over the chasm , between Paleozoic and Secondary life . And yet , considering the vast change which then passed over our planet , -that all specific forms died out ...
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... least suc- ceeded in furnishing the reader with such references , —few and simple when we once know where to find them , —as may enable him to decide upon this important matter for himself . If I have learned anything in the course of ...
... least suc- ceeded in furnishing the reader with such references , —few and simple when we once know where to find them , —as may enable him to decide upon this important matter for himself . If I have learned anything in the course of ...
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... least the historian of the merely literary type , or to the antiquary of the purely documentary one , all is darkness . ' At one stride comes the dark . ' The period is at once reached which we find so happily described by Coleridge ...
... least the historian of the merely literary type , or to the antiquary of the purely documentary one , all is darkness . ' At one stride comes the dark . ' The period is at once reached which we find so happily described by Coleridge ...
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... least Western Europe , possess a literature during its bronze period . Of course , without letters there can be no history ; and even if a detailed history of such uncivilized nations did exist , what would be its value ? ' Milton did ...
... least Western Europe , possess a literature during its bronze period . Of course , without letters there can be no history ; and even if a detailed history of such uncivilized nations did exist , what would be its value ? ' Milton did ...
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... least buried forests , as on the Norfolk coast , at Cromer and Hap- pisburgh , that are more ancient than the drift - clays and gravels ; whereas , so far as is yet known , there are none of our Scotch mosses that do not overlie the ...
... least buried forests , as on the Norfolk coast , at Cromer and Hap- pisburgh , that are more ancient than the drift - clays and gravels ; whereas , so far as is yet known , there are none of our Scotch mosses that do not overlie 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.