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... Rocks , from Virginia . - From H. C. Williams . Specimens of the Red Sandstone of Connecticut , containing impressions of the feet of Birds , & c . & c .: the Ornithichno- lites , & c . & c . , of Professor Hitchcock . - From Col ...
... Rocks , from Virginia . - From H. C. Williams . Specimens of the Red Sandstone of Connecticut , containing impressions of the feet of Birds , & c . & c .: the Ornithichno- lites , & c . & c . , of Professor Hitchcock . - From Col ...
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... rocks , fossils , books , & c . " Also , a letter from W. P. Rowles , of Gallatin , Tennessee , of which the following is an extract . 66 Having read the various notices of your valuable Institution , I find that American antiquities ...
... rocks , fossils , books , & c . " Also , a letter from W. P. Rowles , of Gallatin , Tennessee , of which the following is an extract . 66 Having read the various notices of your valuable Institution , I find that American antiquities ...
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... rocks and their various stratifica- tion . We approached Arran near where the whole coal field is seen in epitome ... rock is known almost universally to abound with them ; and he had found the same characteristic fossil throughout ...
... rocks and their various stratifica- tion . We approached Arran near where the whole coal field is seen in epitome ... rock is known almost universally to abound with them ; and he had found the same characteristic fossil throughout ...
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... rocks . It often sends veins into the slate , but , when raised to its present elevation , it could not have been in a state of fusion , from its being never found overlying the slate , which has evidently been fissured and partly ...
... rocks . It often sends veins into the slate , but , when raised to its present elevation , it could not have been in a state of fusion , from its being never found overlying the slate , which has evidently been fissured and partly ...
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... rocks in the regular order of their superposition , and the presence of numerous forms of characteristic fossils , have all combined to invest it with peculiar interest for the student of Na- ture , and more especially for the lover of ...
... rocks in the regular order of their superposition , and the presence of numerous forms of characteristic fossils , have all combined to invest it with peculiar interest for the student of Na- ture , and more especially for the lover of ...
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