Marvels of the globe, 2 lects. on the structure and physical aspects of the earth |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Admiral Smyth Africa ages of extinct Alpine Alps Altaï America ancient animals Arctic Asia Asiatic Atlantic BAMBURGH CASTLE basin Black Sea Cape carboniferous Caspian Caucasus chain cliffs coal coast continent coral crests crystalline deep deposit depth desert dry land earth elevation England Europe extending forests fossil geological Gibson gigantic glaciers globe granite height Himalaya hundred feet hundred miles igneous igneous rocks inclosed inhabited islands isles lakes lecture limestone lofty masses Mediterranean Mont Blanc monuments moun mountain-chains mountains NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE North northern ocean Old Red Sandstone oolitic Pacific Pacific Ocean Paleozoic peaks peninsula period perpetual snow phenomena plains planet pre-Adamite precipitous primary stratified range red sandstone region remarkable ridges rising rivers rocks rocky shores Silurian snowy square miles strata stratified formations structure stupendous summit surface table-land temple tertiary thousand feet high thousand miles tract tropical TYNEMOUTH Ural mountains valleys vast volcanic wondrous zone
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 49 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
עמוד 46 - ... a great peacefulness of light, Syria and Greece, Italy and Spain, laid like pieces of a golden pavement into the seablue, chased, as we stoop nearer to them, with bossy beaten work of mountain chains, and glowing softly with terraced gardens, and flowers heavy with frankincense, mixed among masses of laurel, and orange, and plumy palm, that abate with their grey-green shadows the burning of the marble rocks, and of the ledges of porphyry sloping under lucent sand.
עמוד 46 - ... stain of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes ; but for the most part a great peacefulness of light, Syria and Greece, Italy and Spain, laid like pieces of...
עמוד 46 - ... the pasture lands: and then, farther north still, to see the earth heave into mighty masses of leaden rock and heathy moor, bordering with a broad waste of gloomy purple that belt of field and wood, and splintering into irregular and grisly islands amidst the northern seas, beaten by storm, and chilled by ice-drift, and tormented by furious pulses of contending tide...
עמוד 50 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
עמוד 12 - The geologist tells us, by the clearest interpretation of the phenomena which his labours have brought to light, that our globe has been subject to vast physical revolutions. He counts his time, not by celestial cycles, but by an index he has found in the solid framework of the globe itself. He sees a long succession of monuments, each of which may have required a thousand ages for its elaboration. He arranges them in chronological order, observes...
עמוד 36 - The long ocean-swell being suddenly impeded by this barrier, lifted itself in one great continuous ridge of deep blue water, which curling over, fell on the edge of the reef in an unbroken cataract of dazzling white foam. Each line of breaker was often one or two miles in length, with not a perceptible gap in its continuity.
עמוד 46 - ... wood, and splintering into irregular and grisly islands amidst the northern seas, beaten by storm, and chilled by ice-drift, and tormented by furious pulses of contending tide, until the roots of the last forests fail from among the hill ravines, and the hunger of the north wind bites their peaks into barrenness ; and, at last, the wall of ice, durable like iron, sets, deathlike, its white teeth against us out of the polar twilight.
עמוד 11 - But the study of geology opens to us the spectacle of many groups of species which have, in the course of the earth's history, succeeded each other at vast intervals of time; one set of animals and plants disappearing, as it would seem, from the face of our planet, and others, which did not before exist, becoming the only occupants of the globe.
עמוד 46 - Volga, seen through clefts in grey swirls of raincloud and flaky veils of the mist of the brooks, spreading low along the pasture lands: and then, farther north still, to see the earth heave into mighty masses of leaden rock and heathy moor, bordering with a broad waste of gloomy purple that belt of field and wood, and splintering into...