...upon the surface of the earth. To these agents, then, wg must refer the effects in question, of wlnch, with an unlimited allowance of time, no one will •pronounce...different epochs into this basin are given at their respectivc heights, will show how completely these volcanic remains mark in their actual position the...

...atmospherical decomposition have the same materials to deal with, — concluding that " to these agents we must refer the effects in question, of which, with...unlimited allowance of time, no one will pronounce them incapable." That the vast amount of denudation which here forces itself upon the notice of the observer,...

...recourse to vague and hypothetical conjectures, we can conceive no gradual and progressive excavating forces , other than those which are still in operation...time, no one will pronounce them to be incapable. (5) In both of his earlier books Scrope emphasized that the careful study of geologic processes now...

...Jurat, other than those which are Ktill in operation wherever rains, frosU, flood«, and atnioepberic decomposition act upon the 'surface of the earth....time, no one will pronounce them to be incapable. The lavas of the Bas Vivarais offer, he tells us, equally incontestable proofs of the same facts. In truth...