 ... notice, that owing to the wave having obliterated the old lines of tidal action on the sloping sandy shores, I could discover no evidence of this fact, except in the united testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was...  The American Naturalist - Seite 331886Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant)...on one part, Captain Fitz Roy found beds of putrid muscle-shells still adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water mark : the inhabitants had formerly... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 Seiten
...rocks, ten feet above high water mark, the inhabitants had formerly dived at low water spring tides for these shells. The elevation of this province is particularly interesting, from its having been the theatre of several other violent earthquakes, and from tho vast numbers of sea shells scattered... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 546 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant)...is particularly interesting., from its having been the theatre of several other violent earthquakes, and from the vast numbers of sea-shells scattered... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1873 - 552 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant)...Captain Fitz Roy found beds of putrid mussel-shells ft ill adhering to the rochs, ten feet above high-water mark : the inhabitants had formerly dived at... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 586 Seiten
...inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of 8. Maria (about thirty miles distant) the elevation was...on one part, Captain Fitz Roy found beds of putrid mussel-shell* still adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water mark : the inhabitants had formerly... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - 628 Seiten
...inhabitants that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of Santa Maria (about thirty miles distant) the elevation was...province is particularly interesting from its having been the theatre of several other violent earthquakes, and from the vast numbers of sea-shells scattered... | |
 | Charles Darwin, R. T. Pritchett - 1890 - 606 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant)...beds of putrid mussel-shells still adhering to the rochs, ten feet above high-water mark : the inhabitants had formerly dived at lowwater spring-tides... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1890 - 604 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant)...found beds of putrid mussel-shells still adhering to thc rocks, ten feet above high-water mark : the inhabitants had formerly dived at lowwater spring-tides... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 542 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant) the elevation was greater ; on one part, Captain Fit/. Roy found beds of putrid mussel-shells ilill adhering to the rocks, ten feet above high-water... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - 542 Seiten
...testimony of the inhabitants, that one little rocky shoal, now exposed, was formerly covered with water. At the island of S. Maria (about thirty miles distant)...is particularly interesting, from its having been the theatre of several other violent earthquakes, and from the vast numbers of sea-shells scattered... | |
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