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... Hills of Sutherland , 168-202 • LECTURE FIFTH . - The Lias of the Hill of Eathie- The Beauty of its shores - Its Deposits , how formed Their Animal Organisms indicative of successive Platforms of Exis- tences - The Laws of Generation ...
... Hills of Sutherland , 168-202 • LECTURE FIFTH . - The Lias of the Hill of Eathie- The Beauty of its shores - Its Deposits , how formed Their Animal Organisms indicative of successive Platforms of Exis- tences - The Laws of Generation ...
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... hill- fort in the neighborhood , and from the circumstance that under an adjacent dune rude sepulchral urns were dis- interred many years after , I have concluded that the hunt- ers by whom they had been accumulated could not have ...
... hill- fort in the neighborhood , and from the circumstance that under an adjacent dune rude sepulchral urns were dis- interred many years after , I have concluded that the hunt- ers by whom they had been accumulated could not have ...
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... hills , the which has been mainly occasioned by the pulling up of the roots of bent , juniper , and broom bushes , which did loose and break the surface and scroof of the sand - hills ; and partic- ularly , considering that the barony ...
... hills , the which has been mainly occasioned by the pulling up of the roots of bent , juniper , and broom bushes , which did loose and break the surface and scroof of the sand - hills ; and partic- ularly , considering that the barony ...
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... hills around , purple with the richly - blossoming heath , are chequered with the light and shade of a cloud - dappled sky , —and when , in the rough foreground , the gray upright stone of other days waves its beard of long gray lichen ...
... hills around , purple with the richly - blossoming heath , are chequered with the light and shade of a cloud - dappled sky , —and when , in the rough foreground , the gray upright stone of other days waves its beard of long gray lichen ...
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... Hill , as he em- ploys it in his exquisite cabinet - pictures , to portray the story of the last Barony : rolling hills of sand all around , the red light of a stormy summer evening deepening into dun and lurid brown , through an ...
... Hill , as he em- ploys it in his exquisite cabinet - pictures , to portray the story of the last Barony : rolling hills of sand all around , the red light of a stormy summer evening deepening into dun and lurid brown , through an ...
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amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous caves Chalk character clay Coal Measures Coccosteus color cone contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth diameters earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet fish flora forests formation fossils fragments Frith furnished geological geologist glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow Hugh Miller hundred inches island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark mass miles molluscs moraine Morayshire mosses neighborhood northern occupied occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms peculiar period plants Pleistocene portion precipices present remains reptiles resemble ridge rising river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotch Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees upper valley vast vegetable waves
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Page 270 - Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under ? There are a thousand such elsewhere As worthy of your wonder.
Page 197 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Page 139 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 287 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Page 238 - The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold ; the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee ; sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble ; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear
Page 194 - Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...
Page 284 - With boughs that quaked at every breath, Grey birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And, higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shatter'd trunk, and frequent flung, Where seem'd the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrow'd sky.
Page 241 - Saint Cuthbert sits, and toils to frame The sea-born beads that bear his name : Such tales had Whitby's fishers told, And said they might his shape behold, And hear his anvil sound ; A deaden'd clang, — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing round.