 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 474 pages
...examples are recorded of marshes originating in this source. Thus, in Mar forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from...when, in the year 1756, the whole wood of Drumlanrig in Dumfries-shire, was overset by the wind. Such events explain the occurrence, both in Britain and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 442 pages
...examples are recorded of marshes originating in this source. Thus, in Mar forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from...middle of the seventeenth century, gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom, in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 584 pages
...examples are recorded of marshes originating in this source. Thus, in Mar forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from...century, after the fall of the trees, the inhabitants dug peat.t Dr. Walker mentions a similar change, when, in the year 1756, the whole wood of Drumlanrig in... | |
 | Science - 1841 - 444 pages
...' their perishing leaves and branches, and in part from the growth of 'other plants. We also leam, that 'the overthrow of a forest by a storm, about...middle of the seventeenth century, gave rise to a ipeatimoss near Lochbroom, in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the... | |
 | David Page - 1844 - 232 pages
...animals with which we are still familiar. Many have even been formed, as it were, but yesterday ; for we learn that the overthrow of a forest by a storm about...the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,... | |
 | David Page - Geology - 1849 - 372 pages
...animals with which we are still familiar. Many have even been formed, as it were, but yesterday ; for we learn that the overthrow of a forest by a storm about...the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 234 pages
...animals with which we are still familiar. Many have even been formed, as it were, but yesterday ; for we learn that the overthrow of a forest by a storm about...the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom in Ross- shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...tens of thousands of years for the formation of a bed thirty feet thick ; but Lyell himself tells us that " the overthrow of a forest by a storm, about...than half a century after the fall of the trees, the inhahitants dug peat."— Principles of Geology, book iii., chap. 13. Again, as to the rate of delta... | |
 | Thomas Hooker Leavitt - Peat - 1866 - 200 pages
...examples are recorded of marshes originating in this source. Thus, in Mar Forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from...middle of the seventeenth century, gave rise to a peat-moss, near Lochbroom, in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the... | |
 | John Kirk - Bible and geology - 1866 - 272 pages
...alongside of this folly of MB de Perthes. He there says — "We also learn that the overthrow of a forest about the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat moss in Lochbroom in Boss-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees, the inhabitants... | |
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Thus, in Mar forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from age and decay, were soon immured in peat, formed partly out of their perishing leaves and branches, and in part from the growth of other plants. We... 
