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... miles farther to the west , where curiously shaped stones , somewhat like the heads of boarding - pikes , were occasionally picked up ; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts , and deemed them of ...
... miles farther to the west , where curiously shaped stones , somewhat like the heads of boarding - pikes , were occasionally picked up ; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts , and deemed them of ...
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... miles , from the near neigh- borhood of Cape Wrath to the southern extremity of Apple- cross ; and though greatly disturbed and overflown by the traps of the inner Hebrides , it can be traced by occasional patches on towards the ...
... miles , from the near neigh- borhood of Cape Wrath to the southern extremity of Apple- cross ; and though greatly disturbed and overflown by the traps of the inner Hebrides , it can be traced by occasional patches on towards the ...
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... mile or two westward from the seacoast Within this year or two , the Old Red ' has been discovered at De- vanha , Union Grove , Huntly Street , Glenburnie , Balgownic , and various other localities to the northward . Hence it may ...
... mile or two westward from the seacoast Within this year or two , the Old Red ' has been discovered at De- vanha , Union Grove , Huntly Street , Glenburnie , Balgownic , and various other localities to the northward . Hence it may ...
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... miles in extent rose , about the middle of the last century , into a high dome of more than double the height of Arthur's Seat . * In the forma- tion of our Scottish mountain , the gneiss and mica - slate of the district seem to have ...
... miles in extent rose , about the middle of the last century , into a high dome of more than double the height of Arthur's Seat . * In the forma- tion of our Scottish mountain , the gneiss and mica - slate of the district seem to have ...
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... mile apart ; and yet , while the thickness of this bed in the one does not exceed one hun- dred feet , that of the same bed in the other somewhat exceeds two hundred feet . More striking still - under the Northern Sutor , the entire ...
... mile apart ; and yet , while the thickness of this bed in the one does not exceed one hun- dred feet , that of the same bed in the other somewhat exceeds two hundred feet . More striking still - under the Northern Sutor , the entire ...
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abundance acquaintance Agassiz amid ancient animal appearance Balruddery body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous fishes Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean curious deposit depth described diluvium Dipterus discovered edge enamelled entire existing feet fins Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds inch instance jaws Lias limestone localities lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nigh nodules occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion precipices present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains reptiles resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite tubercles Upper Old Red vast vegetable vertebral vertebral column
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Page 177 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 61 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 61 - Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing — On superior...
Page 239 - ... spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give way ; and when one does submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of the conqueror...
Page 62 - The scale of existence from infinity to nothing, cannot possibly have being. The highest being not infinite must be, as has been often observed, at an infinite distance below infinity.
Page 220 - ... fish of an area at least a hundred miles from boundary to boundary, perhaps much more. The same platform in Orkney as at Cromarty is strewed thick with remains which exhibit unequivocally the marks of violent death. The figures are contorted, contracted, curved ; the tail in many instances is bent round to the head : the spines stick out ; the fins are spread to the full, as in fish that die in convulsions.
Page 237 - ... face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 42 - ... arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (or skate,) and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure.
Page 4 - Dogs" as one of the most disagreeable of all employments — to work in a quarry. Bating the passing uneasiness occasioned by a few gloomy anticipations, the portion of my life which had already gone by had been happy beyond the common lot. I had been a wanderer...
Page 42 - It opened with a single blow of the hammer ; and there, on a ground of lightcoloured limestone, lay the effigy of a creature fashioned apparently out of jet, with a body covered with plates, two powerful-looking arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray or the sun-fish, and a long angular tail.