Geology of Weymouth, Portland, and Coast of Dorsetshire, from Swanage to Bridport-on-the-sea: With Natural History and Archæological NotesR.F. Damon, 1884 - 250 Seiten |
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Geology of Weymouth, Portland, and Coast of Dorsetshire, from Swanage to ... Robert Damon Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Seite 194 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and goBut in my spirit will I dwell, And dream my dream, and hold it true ; For tho' my lips may breathe adieu, I cannot think the thing farewell.
Seite 175 - A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and, in those holes, Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep, And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by.
Seite 197 - On the whole we must really acknowledge, that there is a complete absence of any fossil type of a lower stage in the development of man. Nay, if we gather together the whole sum of the fossil men hitherto known, and put them parallel with those of the present time, we can decidedly pronounce that there are among living men a much greater number of individuals who show a relatively inferior type than there are among the fossils known up to this time.
Seite 249 - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES ; with a Dissertation on the Origin of Western Europe and of the Atlantic Ocean. With 27 Coloured Maps. By EDWARD HULL, MA, LL.D., FRS, late Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
Seite 249 - HULL— COAL FIELDS of GREAT BRITAIN ; their History, Structure, and Resources ; with Notices of the Coal Fields of other parts of the World. By EDWARD HULL, MA, FRS, Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, &c.
Seite 8 - From the top of Chimborazo to the bottom of the Atlantic, at the deepest place yet reached by the plummet in the Northern Atlantic, the distance in a vertical line is nine miles.
Seite 158 - This continued increasing, and before two o'clock the ground had sunk several feet, and was in one continual motion, but attended with no other noise than what was occasioned by the separation of the roots and brambles, and now and then a falling rock. At night it seemed to stop a little, but soon moved again, and before morning the ground, from the top of the cliff to the water-side, had sunk in some places fifty feet perpendicular. The extent of ground that moved was about a mile and a quarter...
Seite 182 - ... least of the circumstances that must be contemplated and foreknown, before it can be decided what powers and qualities a new species must have in order to enable it to endure for a given time, and to play its part in due relation to all other beings destined to coexist with it, before it dies out. It might be necessary, perhaps, to be able to know the number by which each species would be represented in a given region 10,000 years hence, as much as for Babbage to find what would be the place...
Seite 197 - Only, as a matter of fact, we must positively recognise that as yet there always exists a sharp line of demarcation between man and the ape. We cannot teach, we cannot pronounce it to be a conquest of science, that man descends from the ape or from any other animal.
Seite 169 - It is eminent and hilly ground on the shore of it and a great plain in the midle of it. The cumpace of it is countid to be about a 7 miles. But if a man should cumpace it by the very rootes, and depe shore would mount to a 10 miles.