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... tides , feeble of pulse and slow , but instinct , notwithstanding , with the first life of civilization . And thus we reason on the same kind of unwritten data regarding the human inhabitants of our country who lived during these two ...
... tides , feeble of pulse and slow , but instinct , notwithstanding , with the first life of civilization . And thus we reason on the same kind of unwritten data regarding the human inhabitants of our country who lived during these two ...
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... tide . And what I must deem indubitable marks of this change of level can be traced all around Scot- land and its ... tides used to rise and fall twice every twenty - four hours , ere the retreat of the sea within its present bounds ...
... tide . And what I must deem indubitable marks of this change of level can be traced all around Scot- land and its ... tides used to rise and fall twice every twenty - four hours , ere the retreat of the sea within its present bounds ...
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... tide , and that lived only a few weeks ago . And , rising over the lower , as over the upper flat , we see a continuous escarpment , which marks where , in the present age , during the height of stream tides , the sea and the land meet ...
... tide , and that lived only a few weeks ago . And , rising over the lower , as over the upper flat , we see a continuous escarpment , which marks where , in the present age , during the height of stream tides , the sea and the land meet ...
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... tide skerries , and enlivened by a Highland cottage , stretches out into the foreground from an irregular wall of rock , overhung by graceful foli- age , hollowed into deep recesses , adown which the waters tinkle , and with some of its ...
... tide skerries , and enlivened by a Highland cottage , stretches out into the foreground from an irregular wall of rock , overhung by graceful foli- age , hollowed into deep recesses , adown which the waters tinkle , and with some of its ...
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... tide against the old coast line . " The skeleton of a Balæ- noptera , " says Professor Owen , " seventy - two feet in length , was found , " about thirty years ago , " imbedded in the clay on the banks of the Forth , more than twenty ...
... tide against the old coast line . " The skeleton of a Balæ- noptera , " says Professor Owen , " seventy - two feet in length , was found , " about thirty years ago , " imbedded in the clay on the banks of the Forth , more than twenty ...
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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
Popular passages
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.