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... gravel and other matter thus thrown up , vestiges of the causes by which they were produced of course are found ; on the one hand wrecks of the ocean , on the other ruins of the land are simultaneously gathered together in the same heap ...
... gravel and other matter thus thrown up , vestiges of the causes by which they were produced of course are found ; on the one hand wrecks of the ocean , on the other ruins of the land are simultaneously gathered together in the same heap ...
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... gravel , scattered in such profusion over the surface of all our continents and islands . By an examination of the nature and mineral character of these , we not only discover the source from whence they have been derived , but can form ...
... gravel , scattered in such profusion over the surface of all our continents and islands . By an examination of the nature and mineral character of these , we not only discover the source from whence they have been derived , but can form ...
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... gravel covers the eastern side of Leicestershire , and runs through the adjoining county of Northampton , from which , according to the statement of Conybeare , a complete suite of geological specimens might be obtained . Thus , in the ...
... gravel covers the eastern side of Leicestershire , and runs through the adjoining county of Northampton , from which , according to the statement of Conybeare , a complete suite of geological specimens might be obtained . Thus , in the ...
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... gravel beneath the metropolis , under Gray's Inn lane , Waterloo - place , and in various other situations , and in fact , more or less in all the gravel - pits of the environs . Animal relics of the same description have been found ...
... gravel beneath the metropolis , under Gray's Inn lane , Waterloo - place , and in various other situations , and in fact , more or less in all the gravel - pits of the environs . Animal relics of the same description have been found ...
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... gravel and superficial deposits of earthy matter in the valleys of this country , and throughout Europe , from which an uncongenial climate has long extirpated them , but at inaccessible heights , in every part of the world , in Europe ...
... gravel and superficial deposits of earthy matter in the valleys of this country , and throughout Europe , from which an uncongenial climate has long extirpated them , but at inaccessible heights , in every part of the world , in Europe ...
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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