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... present case , I venture to think that those peculiar circumstances do exist ; and I feel assured he would readily pardon me , whose work this is , and whose memory you so much revere . Without your co- operation , I believe that ...
... present case , I venture to think that those peculiar circumstances do exist ; and I feel assured he would readily pardon me , whose work this is , and whose memory you so much revere . Without your co- operation , I believe that ...
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... present moment leans to the side of a gradual progress and a serial development , it is because so much remains undiscovered ; the hiatus , wherever it occurs , being 25 always in our own knowledge , and not in the xvi PREFACE .
... present moment leans to the side of a gradual progress and a serial development , it is because so much remains undiscovered ; the hiatus , wherever it occurs , being 25 always in our own knowledge , and not in the xvi PREFACE .
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... present day . Sir Roderick Murchison at one time entertained the idea of placing the Ludlow bone - bed at the base of the Old Red Sandstone ; but its fish having been found decidedly associated with Silurian organisms , this idea has ...
... present day . Sir Roderick Murchison at one time entertained the idea of placing the Ludlow bone - bed at the base of the Old Red Sandstone ; but its fish having been found decidedly associated with Silurian organisms , this idea has ...
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... present , no more affects in reality this one great revolution , 1 See Sir Charles Lyell's Supplement for corroboration of the fore- going statements . the completeness of which is marked by the very difficulty PREFACE . xxiii.
... present , no more affects in reality this one great revolution , 1 See Sir Charles Lyell's Supplement for corroboration of the fore- going statements . the completeness of which is marked by the very difficulty PREFACE . xxiii.
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... present to say , that the supposed Old Red Conglomerate of the Western Highlands , as laid down in the year 1827 by Sir Roderick himself , accompanied by Pro- fessor Sedgwick , and so far acquiesced in by my husband , 1 A doubt has ...
... present to say , that the supposed Old Red Conglomerate of the Western Highlands , as laid down in the year 1827 by Sir Roderick himself , accompanied by Pro- fessor Sedgwick , and so far acquiesced in by my husband , 1 A doubt has ...
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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.