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... shore , -its mural precipices behind , tapestried with ivy , —its rich patches of green pas- ture , -its bosky dingles of shrub and tree , —and , perched on the seaward promontory , its old , time - eaten keep . " In one part of the ...
... shore , -its mural precipices behind , tapestried with ivy , —its rich patches of green pas- ture , -its bosky dingles of shrub and tree , —and , perched on the seaward promontory , its old , time - eaten keep . " In one part of the ...
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... shore , where we find them laid bare beside the harbour for several hundred yards . And , mixed with the pebbles of various character and origin of which the conglo- merate is mainly composed , we see detached masses of the slate , that ...
... shore , where we find them laid bare beside the harbour for several hundred yards . And , mixed with the pebbles of various character and origin of which the conglo- merate is mainly composed , we see detached masses of the slate , that ...
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... shore , and a finite conception may in vain attempt to span it over . But from the beach , strewed with wrecks , on which we stand to contemplate it , we see far out towards the cloudy horizon many a dim islet and many a pinnacled rock ...
... shore , and a finite conception may in vain attempt to span it over . But from the beach , strewed with wrecks , on which we stand to contemplate it , we see far out towards the cloudy horizon many a dim islet and many a pinnacled rock ...
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... shore , charged with Liasic fossils ; and a note he had written , to say that the deposit to which it belonged occurred in the trap immediately above the vil- lage - mill ; and further , to call my attention to a house near the middle ...
... shore , charged with Liasic fossils ; and a note he had written , to say that the deposit to which it belonged occurred in the trap immediately above the vil- lage - mill ; and further , to call my attention to a house near the middle ...
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... shores , a wreck of the Invincible Armada , " deep whelmed , " according to Thomson , " What time , Snatched sudden by the vengeful blast , The scattered vessels drove , and on blind shelve , And pointed rock that marks th ' indented shore ...
... shores , a wreck of the Invincible Armada , " deep whelmed , " according to Thomson , " What time , Snatched sudden by the vengeful blast , The scattered vessels drove , and on blind shelve , And pointed rock that marks th ' indented shore ...
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The Cruise of the Betsey: A Summer Holiday in the Hebrides. Seventh Edition Hugh Miller,William S. Symonds No preview available - 2017 |
The Cruise of the Betsey; Or, a Summer Holiday in the Hebrides Hugh Miller No preview available - 2019 |
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amid Ammonites ancient animal Banffshire beach bearing Belemnite Betsey bones boulder boulder-clay broken Caithness character clay cliffs coast Coccosteus colour conglomerate Cromarty curious dark deposit detached Dipterus edges Eigg exhibit existing fish flat formation fossils fragments Free Church Frith geological geologist gneiss gray green ground height hills hollow Holoptychius hundred feet ichthyolites inches island Isle Kirkwall land least length Lias Liasic limestone loch Lower Old Red mass miles minister Moray morning nearly neighbourhood night nodule northern numerous occur Old Red Sandstone Oolite Orkney Ornsay Osteolepis Paleozoic passed patches peculiar plates portion Portree precipices present quarry racter rain rampart resembling rising rock Rosemarkie sand scales scarce Scotland Scuir seems seen shale shells shore side Skye slopes Small Isles species specimens stone strata Strathpeffer stratum stream surface thick thickly Thurso tide tion upper valley vessel wall
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Page 213 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 356 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 210 - Europe, in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen; nay\ to such a degree was my curiosity raised, that having read the controversies of some great men concerning the antiquities of Egypt, I made a voyage to Grand Cairo, on purpose to take the measure of a pyramid...