 ... feet; and these deluges of melted stone and aqueous deposits had been five times spread out alternately. The ocean which received such masses must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed of that...  The Journal of the Linnean Society: Zoology - עמוד 43מאת Linnean Society of London - 1873תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1839 - 658 דפים
...out alternately. The ocean which received such mass must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than 7,000 feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant, which are always at work to wear... | |
 | 1841 - 504 דפים
...alternately. The ocean which received such a mass must have been deep ; but again the subterranean forces had exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed of that...chain of mountains more than 7000 feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant, which are always at work to wear down the surface of... | |
 | John Anderson - 1859 - 148 דפים
...received such masses must have been deep ; but again the subterranean forces exerted their powers, and I now beheld the bed of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than 7000 feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant which are always at work to wear down the surface of the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 594 דפים
...out alternately. The ocean which received such masses must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...chain of mountains more than 7000 feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant, which are always at work to wear down the surface of... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - 508 דפים
...out alternately. The ocean which received such masses must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than 7,000 feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant, which are always at work to wear... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 2001 - 504 דפים
...out alternately. The ocean which received such masses must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than seven thousand feet in altitude.' Yet the era of plate tectonics was still in the distant future! The... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1989 - 452 דפים
...out alternately. The ocean which received such masses must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than 7,000 feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant, which are always at work to wear... | |
 | R. D. Keynes - 2003 - 472 דפים
...out alternately. The ocean which received such masses must have been deep; but again the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than seven thousand feet in altitude. Nor had those antagonist forces been dormant, which are always at... | |
 | Sandra Herbert - 2005 - 538 דפים
...sedimentary matter, and this again by enormous streams of submarine lava. . . . [Again] the subterranean forces exerted their power, and I now beheld the bed...of that sea forming a chain of mountains more than seven thousand feet in altitude. Implicit in Darwin's story was his presence as observer: I saw, I... | |
 | Linnean Society of London - 1873 - 616 דפים
...a volcanic soil which had been raised above the level of the sea, and that this dry land, with ita upright trees, had subsequently been let down to the...must have stretched out until it reached the Cape of Good Hope, sending out perhaps arms to Tristan d'Acunha and St. Helena, which, however, have the option... | |
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