Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology, Band 1J. Murray, 1867 - 834 Seiten |
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... lower Egypt , and even the high lands about Memphis , had once been covered by the sea . * * As similar fossil remains occur in all parts of Asia hitherto explored , far in the interior of the continent as well as near the sea , they ...
... lower Egypt , and even the high lands about Memphis , had once been covered by the sea . * * As similar fossil remains occur in all parts of Asia hitherto explored , far in the interior of the continent as well as near the sea , they ...
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... lower world . But when a circulation of the heavenly orbs was completed , which is finished in that space of years , other genera and species of animals are propagated , as also of plants and other things , and the first order is ...
... lower world . But when a circulation of the heavenly orbs was completed , which is finished in that space of years , other genera and species of animals are propagated , as also of plants and other things , and the first order is ...
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... lower levels , and he even contemplated the period when they would destroy all the present continents . Although in geology he was not an original observer , his genius enabled him to render his hypothesis attractive ; and by the ...
... lower levels , and he even contemplated the period when they would destroy all the present continents . Although in geology he was not an original observer , his genius enabled him to render his hypothesis attractive ; and by the ...
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... lower end of the Lake of Geneva , there was no great river , as there now is , forming a delta many miles in extent , and several hundred feet in depth , at the upper end of the lake . Deluges . As deluges have been often alluded to ...
... lower end of the Lake of Geneva , there was no great river , as there now is , forming a delta many miles in extent , and several hundred feet in depth , at the upper end of the lake . Deluges . As deluges have been often alluded to ...
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... lower any part of this barrier , even a few yards at a time , or if earthquakes should rend it open , the breaches thus made might allow the sudden escape of vast floods of water into a hydrographical basin of enormous extent . If the ...
... lower any part of this barrier , even a few yards at a time , or if earthquakes should rend it open , the breaches thus made might allow the sudden escape of vast floods of water into a hydrographical basin of enormous extent . If the ...
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Seite 98 - This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age without observing the gradual, but incessant, change of human affairs ; and even in our larger experience of history, the imagination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions.
Seite 503 - But the most sublime scene is where a mural pile of porphyry, escaping the process of disintegration that is devastating the coast, appears to have been left as a sort of rampart against the inroads of the ocean ; the Atlantic, when provoked by wintry gales, batters against it with all the force of real artillery, the waves having, in their repeated assaults, forced themselves an entrance.
Seite 78 - ... in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order.
Seite 30 - I found the sea in the same place, and on its shores were a party of fishermen, of whom I inquired how long the land had been covered by the waters. ' Is this a question,' said they, ' for a man like you ? This spot has always been what it is now.
Seite 607 - ... the sea having left them dry for a considerable time. I accompanied Signor Moramaldo to behold the wonderful effects of the eruption. The sea had retired on the side of Baite, abandoning a considerable tract, and the shore appeared almost entirely dry, from the quantity of ashes and broken pumice-stones .thrown up by the eruption.
Seite 2 - We often discover with surprise, on looking back into the chronicles of nations, how the fortune of some battle has influenced the fate of millions of our contemporaries, when it has long been forgotten by the mass of the population. With this remote event we may find inseparably connected the geographical boundaries of a great state, the language now spoken by the inhabitants, their peculiar manners, laws, and religious opinions. But far more astonishing and unexpected are the connexions brought...
Seite 326 - ... well as of- reproduction ; but they may also be regarded as antagonist forces. For the aqueous agents are incessantly labouring to reduce the inequalities of the earth's surface to a level ; while the igneous are equally active in restoring the unevenness of the external crust, partly by heaping up new matter in certain localities, and partly by depressing one portion, and forcing out another, of the earth's envelope.
Seite 98 - ... erected over the principal gate of Ephesus. His singular dress, and obsolete language, confounded the baker, to whom he offered an ancient medal of Decius as the current coin of the empire ; and Jamblichus, on the suspicion of a secret treasure, was dragged before the judge. Their mutual enquiries produced the amazing discovery, that two centuries were almost elapsed since Jamblichus and his friends had escaped from the rage of a pagan tyrant.
Seite 18 - The illustrations are thus consecutively adduced. 1. Solid land has been converted into sea. 2. Sea has been changed into land. Marine shells lie far distant from the deep, and the anchor has been found on the summit of hills.