The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; Or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland |
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... hundred yards . And , mixed with the pebbles of various character and origin of which the conglomerate is mainly composed , we see detached masses of the slate , that still exhibit on their edges the identical lines of fracture ...
... hundred yards . And , mixed with the pebbles of various character and origin of which the conglomerate is mainly composed , we see detached masses of the slate , that still exhibit on their edges the identical lines of fracture ...
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... hundred weight . How account for the occurrence of pebbles of so gigantic a size here ? We can but guess at a solution , and that very vaguely . The islands of Mull and Kerrera form , in the present state of things , inner and outer ...
... hundred weight . How account for the occurrence of pebbles of so gigantic a size here ? We can but guess at a solution , and that very vaguely . The islands of Mull and Kerrera form , in the present state of things , inner and outer ...
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... hundred feet , than the dome of St. Paul's . The upper slopes of the island are brown and moory , and present little on which the eye may rest , save a few trap terraces , with rudely columnar fronts ; its middle space is mottled with ...
... hundred feet , than the dome of St. Paul's . The upper slopes of the island are brown and moory , and present little on which the eye may rest , save a few trap terraces , with rudely columnar fronts ; its middle space is mottled with ...
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... hundred yards under the crags , and came abreast of a dark angular opening at the base of the precipice , scarce two feet in height , and in front of which there lies a little sluggish , ankle - deep pool , half mud , half water , and ...
... hundred yards under the crags , and came abreast of a dark angular opening at the base of the precipice , scarce two feet in height , and in front of which there lies a little sluggish , ankle - deep pool , half mud , half water , and ...
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... hundred and sixty feet ; its extreme breadth twenty - seven feet ; its height , where the roof rises highest , from eighteen to twenty feet . The cave seems to have owed its origin to two distinct causes . The trap - rocks on each side ...
... hundred and sixty feet ; its extreme breadth twenty - seven feet ; its height , where the roof rises highest , from eighteen to twenty feet . The cave seems to have owed its origin to two distinct causes . The trap - rocks on each side ...
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Page 236 - 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 316 - Coccosteus down to the posterior termination of the dorsal plate, the creature was cased in strong armour, the plates of which remain as freshly preserved in the ancient rocks of the country as those of the Pimelodi of the Ganges on the shelves of the Elgin Museum ; but from the pointed termination of the plate immediately over the dorsal fin, to the tail, comprising more than one half the entire length of the animal, all seems to have been exposed, without the protection of even a scale, and there...
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Page 134 - The hoary sire in gratitude reveal'd. Such was the wine: to quench whose fervent steam Scarce twenty measures from the living stream To cool one cup sufficed: the goblet crown'd Breathed aromatic fragrances around.
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Page 78 - Gray visited this place, he heard at the end of a quarter of an hour a low continuous murmuring sound beneath his feet, which gradually changed into pulsations as it became louder, so as to resemble the striking of a clock. In five minutes it became so strong as to resemble the striking of a clock, and even to detach the sand.