The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in an Old Field. To which is Appended a Series of Geological Papers, Read Before the Royal Physical Society of EdinburghGould and Lincoln, 1858 - 385 páginas |
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abundance acquaintance Agassiz ages amid ancient animal appearance Assynt Balruddery bone bony Caithness Carboniferous cartilaginous Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color conglomerate corals Cornstone covered creation creature Cromarty crustacean curious deposit described Dipterus district edge entire existing feet fins fish Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished Gamrie genus geological geologist gneiss granitic graptolites Grauwacke gray hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds inches jaws Lias limestone localities lower formation Lower Old Red marked masses miles minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison neighborhood nodules northern occur ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis Patrick Duff pebbles peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry quartz rock regarded remains reptiles resembling ridges Roderick Murchison scales Scotland seems shale shells shore side Silurian species specimens spines stone strata stratum surface tail teeth thick thickly Tilestone tion trilobite Upper Old Red vegetable
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Página 169 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 55 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Página 231 - ... face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 55 - Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Página 2 - ... a more conclusive proof that the bank which had enclosed them so long could not have been created on the rock on which it rested. No workman ever manufactures a half-worn article, and the stones were all half-worn! And if not the bank, why then the sandstone underneath? I was lost in conjecture, and found I had food enough for thought that evening, without once thinking of the unhappiness of a life of labor.
Página xxiv - ... across the frith, there ascended a thin column of smoke. It rose straight as the line of a plummet for more than a thousand yards, and then, on reaching a thinner stratum of air, spread out equally on every side, like the foliage of a stately tree. Ben...
Página xxii - Picks, and wedges, and levers, were applied by my brother workmen; and simple and rude as I had been accustomed to regard these implements, I found I had much to learn in the way of using them. They all proved inefficient, however, and the workmen had to bore into one of the inferior strata, and employ gunpowder. The process was new to me, and I deemed it a highly amusing one : it had the merit, too, of being attended with some such degree of danger as a boating or rock excursion, and had thus an...
Página 3 - In the course of the first day's employment, I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture — one of the volutes apparently of an Ionic capital...
Página xxii - ... reader of curious books when I could get them — a gleaner of old traditionary stories ; and now I was going to exchange all my day-dreams, and all my amusements, for the kind of life in which men toil every day that they may be enabled to eat, and eat every day that they may be enabled to toil...
Página 36 - ... arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (or skate,) and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure.