Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of GeologyJ. Murray, 1850 - 811 עמודים |
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America ancient animals and plants appears basalt beds bottom breccias Calabria calcareous carbonic acid carboniferous causes century Cetacea changes channel cliffs climate coast cone continued convulsions coral crater delta deposits depth distance earth earthquakes elevation Eocene eruption Etna Etym existing extinct feet fissures flood formations fossil Geol geological geologist globe gneiss gradually granite Gulf heat height Herculaneum hundred inhabitants Ischia island Journ lakes land lapilli latitudes lava limestone marine mass matter miles mineral Monte Nuovo mountains nature observed ocean oolitic organic origin period phenomena Phil present quadrupeds quantity reef regions remains remarkable rise river rocks sand scoriæ sediment shells shores soil solid species springs stone strata stream subsidence subterranean supposed surface temperature terrestrial tertiary testacea theory thickness thousand thrown tides trachyte tract Trans travertin tuff valley vegetable Vesuvius volcanic waves whole zoophytes
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עמוד 598 - difficulty in conceiving the diffusion of species wherever uncongenial climates, contrary currents, and other causes do not interfere. All are familiar with the sight of the floating sea-weed, " Flung from the rock on ocean's foam to sail, Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.
עמוד 6 - This universe existed only in the first divine idea yet unexpanded, as if involved in darkness, imperceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable by reason, and undiscovered by revelation, as if it were wholly immersed in sleep. Then the sole self-existing Power, himself undiscerned, but making this world discernible, with five elements, and other principles of nature, appeared with
עמוד 663 - mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals and to kill them up In their assign'd and native dwelling-place. We have only to reflect, that in thus obtaining possession of
עמוד 54 - reviving the heathen dogma of an " eternal succession," and of denying that this world ever had a beginning. Playfair, in the biography of his friend, has the following comment on this part of their theory: — "In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far, both into the future and the past, we discover
עמוד 131 - a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men, that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl. Had he also beheld, amid " the dead bones that lay scattered by,
עמוד 386 - yon dreary plain, forlorn and wild, The seat of desolation, void of light, Save what the glimmering of these livid flames Casts pale and dreadful.
עמוד 67 - to whom the inheritance of the mountain had descended, removed the stones to supply materials for some rustic edifice: the light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the seven sleepers •were permitted to awake. After a slumber, as they thought, of a few
עמוד 54 - and no small sensation was excited when Hutton seemed, with unhallowed hand, desirous to erase characters already regarded by many as sacred. " In the economy of the world," said the Scotch geologist, "I can find no traces of a beginning, no prospect of an end;" a declaration the more startling when coupled with the doctrine, that all past
עמוד 648 - till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among the countless species of the insect creation, some feed on animal, others on vegetable matter ; and, upon considering a catalogue of eight thousand British Insects and
עמוד 243 - in solution more than its own volume of carbonic acid gas, with a very small quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen. Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the Quantity of carbonic acid that it contains, render it peculiarly fitted to afford nourishment to vegetable life. The banks of travertin are