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... elevation , where no volcanos had before existed , seems scarcely credible ; yet this has happened in modern times and is established on unequivocal testimony : while it is a fact in history that in 1538 , a hill four hundred and forty ...
... elevation , where no volcanos had before existed , seems scarcely credible ; yet this has happened in modern times and is established on unequivocal testimony : while it is a fact in history that in 1538 , a hill four hundred and forty ...
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... elevation ; and there are bones of horses , deer , and other animals incrusted with calcareous matter , preserved in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons at London , which fell with avalanches from the regions of perpetual snow ...
... elevation ; and there are bones of horses , deer , and other animals incrusted with calcareous matter , preserved in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons at London , which fell with avalanches from the regions of perpetual snow ...
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... elevation of considerable magnitude intervenes , there we find an accumulation of these detritus , as at the entrance of all the valleys descending from the Alps where a mountain mass has intercepted the current , as the engraving will ...
... elevation of considerable magnitude intervenes , there we find an accumulation of these detritus , as at the entrance of all the valleys descending from the Alps where a mountain mass has intercepted the current , as the engraving will ...
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... elevations above the level of the sea , in the face of precipitous rocks , yet there are decided proofs that they were once below the surface of the water , as a lithodomous or stone- piercing shell , ( an inhabitant of the sea , ) has ...
... elevations above the level of the sea , in the face of precipitous rocks , yet there are decided proofs that they were once below the surface of the water , as a lithodomous or stone- piercing shell , ( an inhabitant of the sea , ) has ...
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... elevation of that re- markable mountain , and anterior to the deluge : the bones being those of animals and birds which acci- dentally fell , or were carried by beasts of prey , into the fissures , which , though now filled with ...
... elevation of that re- markable mountain , and anterior to the deluge : the bones being those of animals and birds which acci- dentally fell , or were carried by beasts of prey , into the fissures , which , though now filled with ...
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abundance accumulation action Alps ancient animals antediluvian appear Astronomy basalt beds beneath Billesdon bones breccia Buckland buried causes caverns caves chalk changes Charnwood Forest circumstance coal coast contain convulsions Cornwall covered Cuvier deluge deposit depth diluvial discovered earth earthy matter effect elephant elevation England Eningen enormous Europe existing extinct fact fissures forests formation formed fossil fragments geologists Geology globe gradual granite gravel heat hills Humphry Davy hyænas ichthyosaurus imbedded inferred inhabitants instance interior island Jura mountains lake land Leicestershire lias lime limestone Lyell megatherium miles mineral masses Monkwearmouth mountains nature observed ocean oolitic organic contents organic remains origin period phenomena plants plesiosaurus portion position present primitive rocks produced proved pterodactylus quadrupeds recent regions relics remarkable remote reptiles river sand sandstone sedimentary shells situations skeleton solid species specimens strata stratified substance supposed temperature termed thickness thousand tion traces tropical valleys vast violent volcanic
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Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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