General View of the Geology of Scripture: In which the Unerring Truth of the Inspired Narrative of the Early Events in the World is Exhibited, and Distinctly Proved |
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... Remains . - Evidences derived from them . - Erroneous Theories of continuous Stratification . - Diluvial Fossil Remains . -Diluvial Origin of Coal . - Unfounded Theories on this Subject . -The Belgian Coal Fields . - Tropical ...
... Remains . - Evidences derived from them . - Erroneous Theories of continuous Stratification . - Diluvial Fossil Remains . -Diluvial Origin of Coal . - Unfounded Theories on this Subject . -The Belgian Coal Fields . - Tropical ...
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... Fossil Remains . — Contradictory nature of this Theory . - Fossil Bones from the Hymalaya Glaciers ; and from the Heights of South America . - Natural Mode of accounting for them . - The Habits of the Elephant . His most perfect Form ...
... Fossil Remains . — Contradictory nature of this Theory . - Fossil Bones from the Hymalaya Glaciers ; and from the Heights of South America . - Natural Mode of accounting for them . - The Habits of the Elephant . His most perfect Form ...
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... Fossil Remains . - Why they cannot be so numerous as those of other Animals . -Lime - stone Caves and Fissures . - An Example , in the Cave of Gaylenreuth , with its Fossil Contents . -Dr . Buckland's Theory of Caves and Fissures ...
... Fossil Remains . - Why they cannot be so numerous as those of other Animals . -Lime - stone Caves and Fissures . - An Example , in the Cave of Gaylenreuth , with its Fossil Contents . -Dr . Buckland's Theory of Caves and Fissures ...
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... fossil remains , which have been the fertile cause of so much miscon- ception during the last century . It has been remarked by geologists , that the only fossil remains of animated beings to be found in the earliest secondary rocks ...
... fossil remains , which have been the fertile cause of so much miscon- ception during the last century . It has been remarked by geologists , that the only fossil remains of animated beings to be found in the earliest secondary rocks ...
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... remains form the oldest fossil " animals met with in the strata of the earth . " * The latter part of this passage , from the pen of a learned Professor , shews that its author directly pointed towards the above mentioned notion ...
... remains form the oldest fossil " animals met with in the strata of the earth . " * The latter part of this passage , from the pen of a learned Professor , shews that its author directly pointed towards the above mentioned notion ...
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