 But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry...  The chemistry of creation - Page 446by Robert Ellis (F.L.S.) - 1850Full view - About this book
 | David Thomas Ansted - Geology - 1856 - 654 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic,...the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced for themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir (fig. 10), is widened every winter... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1857 - 336 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean. The Atlantic,...themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the overwhelming surge that, finding a passage through it, separates... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic,...themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the overwhelming surge that, finding a passage through it, separates... | |
 | Robert William Fraser - 1860 - 332 pages
...process of disintegration that ;•; devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean. The Atlantic,...themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the overwhelming surge that, finding a passage through it, separates... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 610 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean : the Atlantic,...wintry gales, batters against it with all the force oL real artillery, — the waves having, in their repeated assaults, orced for themselves an entrance.... | |
 | Archibald Geikie, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - Geology - 1865 - 398 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean. The Atlantic,...the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced for themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir, is widened every winter by the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1865 - 880 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; — the...wintry gales, batters against it with all the force ol real artillery — the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance.... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Science - 1871 - 348 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean. The Atlantic,...batters against it with all the force of real artillery ; and the waves, in their repeated assaults, have at length forced for themselves an entrance. This... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 pages
...been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; — the Atlantic, when provoked bv wintry gales, batters against it with all the force...themselves an entrance. This breach, named the Grind of the Navir (fig. 47), is widened every winter by the overFip. 47. Grind of the Navir— passage forced... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Science - 1873 - 340 pages
...the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean. The Atlantic,...batters against it with all the force of real artillery ; and the waves, in their repeated assaults, have at length forced for themselves an entrance. This... | |
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