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... present understood , may be said to be a species of history - the physical history of the great globe we inhabit — a sort of antiquarianism which takes cognizance not of ancient coins , broken columns , and antique inscriptions in order ...
... present understood , may be said to be a species of history - the physical history of the great globe we inhabit — a sort of antiquarianism which takes cognizance not of ancient coins , broken columns , and antique inscriptions in order ...
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... present feeble energies , compared with her pristine vigour , seem to indicate . The key to this long - concealed volume of nature , and to all its mystic revelations , is the extraneous fossil , ( as it is termed , ) the organic ...
... present feeble energies , compared with her pristine vigour , seem to indicate . The key to this long - concealed volume of nature , and to all its mystic revelations , is the extraneous fossil , ( as it is termed , ) the organic ...
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... present extended . The discoveries of Geology , like those of Astronomy , are completely at variance with our preconceived ideas , and in some cases opposed to the evidence of the senses . Until it was proved by demonstration , it was ...
... present extended . The discoveries of Geology , like those of Astronomy , are completely at variance with our preconceived ideas , and in some cases opposed to the evidence of the senses . Until it was proved by demonstration , it was ...
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... present day have condemned , is of itself sufficient to prove the immense advantage of Geology as a practical science . It is unnecessary to dilate upon the inestimable ad- vantages , we derive from the skill of the miner . It would be ...
... present day have condemned , is of itself sufficient to prove the immense advantage of Geology as a practical science . It is unnecessary to dilate upon the inestimable ad- vantages , we derive from the skill of the miner . It would be ...
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... presents to the inexperienced eye an hete- rogeneous mass of earthy matter confusedly mixed to- gether , the geologist discovers to be composed of a series of distinct and well - defined mineral masses , each possessing , not only a ...
... presents to the inexperienced eye an hete- rogeneous mass of earthy matter confusedly mixed to- gether , the geologist discovers to be composed of a series of distinct and well - defined mineral masses , each possessing , not only a ...
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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