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Page v
... Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland . You undertook the editorial duties connected with them con amore , and performed your task in a manner that left nothing to be desired . During the preparation of the present volume ...
... Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland . You undertook the editorial duties connected with them con amore , and performed your task in a manner that left nothing to be desired . During the preparation of the present volume ...
Page vi
... miles of country , when the naturalists of whom it is composed , - botanists , geologists , etc . , - carry on the researches of their various departments separately , or in little groups of two or three , as they may desire . They all ...
... miles of country , when the naturalists of whom it is composed , - botanists , geologists , etc . , - carry on the researches of their various departments separately , or in little groups of two or three , as they may desire . They all ...
Page xxxii
... miles per day , and who has submitted nearly every rood of the soil to the accurate inspection demanded by the Survey , must be one whose opinion , in all that pertains to Scottish Geology in especial , must be well worth the having . I ...
... miles per day , and who has submitted nearly every rood of the soil to the accurate inspection demanded by the Survey , must be one whose opinion , in all that pertains to Scottish Geology in especial , must be well worth the having . I ...
Page xxxiii
... Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland , there was left a volume of papers unpublished as a whole , entitled A Tour through the Northern Counties of Scotland . They had , however , been largely drawn upon in various other ...
... Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland , there was left a volume of papers unpublished as a whole , entitled A Tour through the Northern Counties of Scotland . They had , however , been largely drawn upon in various other ...
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... miles to the east of the town of Tain , where it attains a breadth of from one to two miles , and where the old sea - margin , rising over the cot- tage - mottled plain below in a series of jutting headlands , with green bosky bays ...
... miles to the east of the town of Tain , where it attains a breadth of from one to two miles , and where the old sea - margin , rising over the cot- tage - mottled plain below in a series of jutting headlands , with green bosky bays ...
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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.