The World Before the DelugeCassell, 1866 - 449 Seiten |
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Algæ Alps Ammonites ancient world animals appearance argillaceous banks basaltic beds belonging bones Bryozoa calcareous carbonate Carboniferous cave centre Chalk clay coal Conifers consists containing coprolites covered crater Cretaceous crust Cuvier deposits Devonian earth Elephant England Eocene epoch eruptions Europe existence extended extinct Ferns Fishes forests formation fossil fragments France genera geological geologists gigantic glacial glacier globe gneiss granite hundred feet Hyænas Ichthyosaurus immense island Jurassic lava Lias lime limestone living Lower Lyell Mammals Mammoth marine marl mass Mastodon Megatherium metamorphism mineral Miocene Molluscs mountains natural nearly occupied Oolite organic period Permian plants Plesiosaurus Pliocene present quarries Red Sandstone regions remains remarkable represented Reptiles resembling Rhinoceros rivers rocks sand Saurians says shales shells Silurian skeleton soil solid sometimes species stone strata surface teeth temperature terrestrial Tertiary thickness thousand feet tion traces trachytic trees Upper valley vast vegetation volcanoes Zoophytes
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Seite 419 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Seite 419 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
Seite 25 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Seite 205 - 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.
Seite 419 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man...
Seite 356 - Without doubt several hundred thousand animals thus perished in the river; their bodies, when putrid, were seen floating down the stream ; and many in all probability were deposited in the estuary of the Plata. All the small rivers became highly saline, and this caused the death of vast numbers in particular spots ; for when an animal drinks of such water it does not recover.
Seite 201 - That it was aquatic is evident from the form of its paddles ; that it was marine is almost equally so, from the remains with which it is universally associated ; that it may have occasionally visited the shore, the resemblance of its extremities to those of the turtle may lead us to conjecture; its motion, however, must have been very awkward on land ; its long neck must have impeded its progress through the water, presenting a striking contrast to the organization which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus...
Seite 343 - After this, the ground was dug in different places to ascertain whether any of its bones were buried, but principally to collect all the hairs which the white bears had trod into the ground while devouring the flesh : and more than thirty-six pounds' weight of hair were thus recovered.
Seite 201 - ... that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach...
Seite 1 - The solid and weighty materials of those mountains are everywhere urged through the valleys by the force of running water. The soil, which is produced in the destruction of the solid earth, is gradually travelled by the moving water, but is constantly supplying vegetation with its necessary aid. This travelled soil is at last deposited upon the coast, where it forms most fertile countries.