Geology in 1835: A Popular Sketch of the Progress, Leading Features, and Latest Discoveries of this Rising ScienceSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1835 - 139 หน้า |
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... Europe , were now wreathed upon his silvery hair . A splendid instance of the reward of perseverance , and a powerful stimulus to the exertions of those to whom Nature has imparted a scientific taste , but Fortune has denied her ad ...
... Europe , were now wreathed upon his silvery hair . A splendid instance of the reward of perseverance , and a powerful stimulus to the exertions of those to whom Nature has imparted a scientific taste , but Fortune has denied her ad ...
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... Europe , the lowest bed , the primitive granite , on which all the other rocky masses repose , rarely makes its appearance except on the summits of the highest moun- tains , such as Mont Blanc and the Jung Frau , and the loftier Alps ...
... Europe , the lowest bed , the primitive granite , on which all the other rocky masses repose , rarely makes its appearance except on the summits of the highest moun- tains , such as Mont Blanc and the Jung Frau , and the loftier Alps ...
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... European rivers . Such is the vast accumulation of matter at the efflux of the Niger to the Atlantic , that its ... Europe , upon a smaller scale , there are the delta * of the Rhone in the Mediterranean , where a considerable tract ...
... European rivers . Such is the vast accumulation of matter at the efflux of the Niger to the Atlantic , that its ... Europe , upon a smaller scale , there are the delta * of the Rhone in the Mediterranean , where a considerable tract ...
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... Europe- the Rhine , the Rhone , the Po , and the Arve . In the northern regions of the world , this agent is infinitely more active , and we there find it engaged in carrying out to great distances at sea , enormous rocks and earthy ...
... Europe- the Rhine , the Rhone , the Po , and the Arve . In the northern regions of the world , this agent is infinitely more active , and we there find it engaged in carrying out to great distances at sea , enormous rocks and earthy ...
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... Europe , from Norway to the coast of Africa , in the Madeira isles , and the West Indies ; and at the destruction of Lima , in Peru , in 1746 , not only was the whole continent of America convulsed , but the shock was propagated across ...
... Europe , from Norway to the coast of Africa , in the Madeira isles , and the West Indies ; and at the destruction of Lima , in Peru , in 1746 , not only was the whole continent of America convulsed , but the shock was propagated across ...
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หน้า 97 - swarmed in the seas, or crawled on the shores of a turbulent planet."* « The fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
หน้า 46 - In the six hundredth year of Noah, in the second month, and the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened, and the waters prevailed
หน้า 46 - seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened, and the waters prevailed and were
หน้า 99 - flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous ichthyosauri and plesiosauri, swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shores of the primeval lakes and rivers, air, sea, and land must have been strangely tenanted, in these early periods of
หน้า 57 - C'est en vain que l'on cherche dans les forces qui agissent maintenant à la surface de la terre, des causes suffisantes pour produire les révolutions et les catastrophes dont son enveloppe nous montre les traces ; et si l'on veut recourir aux forces extérieures constantes connues
หน้า 98 - as having the snout of a dolphin, the teeth of a crocodile, the head and sternum of a lizard, the extremities of cetácea, * (being, however, four in number,) and the vertebrae of fish.
หน้า 54 - depth by the length and breadth of the cavern, will be found to exceed five thousand cubic feet The quantity of animal matter accumulated on this floor is the most surprising and the only thing of the kind I ever
หน้า 47 - and caused to disappear the countries formerly inhabited by men and the animal species at present best known, and on the other has laid bare the bottom of the last ocean, thus converting its channel into the now habitable earth.
หน้า 34 - covered by the water in May, and in the April following, he had some difficulty in breaking, with a sharppointed hammer, the mass which adhered to the stick, and which was several inches in thickness.
หน้า 22 - within the general line of coast are all of a subordinate nature, in no way tending to arrest the march of the great ocean, nor to avert the destiny eventually awaiting the whole region : they are like the petty wars and conquests of the independent states and republics of Greece, while the power of Macedón was steadily