The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 |
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... the Phanogamous division of the Vegetable Kingdom . Reflections which this display of great power necessarily occasions . 121 309 335 361 This chain of reasoning confirmed by quotations from Botanical writers vi . CONTENTS .
... the Phanogamous division of the Vegetable Kingdom . Reflections which this display of great power necessarily occasions . 121 309 335 361 This chain of reasoning confirmed by quotations from Botanical writers vi . CONTENTS .
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... vegetable mould , or the diluvium wraps up this superior covering in turn . One of our best known Scottish mountains - the gigantic Ben Nevis - furnishes an admi- rable illustration of this latter construction of hill . It is composed ...
... vegetable mould , or the diluvium wraps up this superior covering in turn . One of our best known Scottish mountains - the gigantic Ben Nevis - furnishes an admi- rable illustration of this latter construction of hill . It is composed ...
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... vegetable mould which forms the field's surface . The ridge itself is of a granitic texture - a true gneiss . At its base we find only conglomerates , sandstones , shales , and stratified clays , and these lying against it in very high ...
... vegetable mould which forms the field's surface . The ridge itself is of a granitic texture - a true gneiss . At its base we find only conglomerates , sandstones , shales , and stratified clays , and these lying against it in very high ...
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... vegetable remains , sufficiently evince , that they were not removed far from where they had been formed . The fact of the coal measures presenting these peculiar features , in a very striking degree , is so abundantly evidenced by what ...
... vegetable remains , sufficiently evince , that they were not removed far from where they had been formed . The fact of the coal measures presenting these peculiar features , in a very striking degree , is so abundantly evidenced by what ...
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... vegetable mould or diluvium wraps up this superior covering in turn . " One of our best known Scottish mountains - the gigantic Ben Nevis - furnishes an admirable illustration of this latter construction of hill . It is composed of ...
... vegetable mould or diluvium wraps up this superior covering in turn . " One of our best known Scottish mountains - the gigantic Ben Nevis - furnishes an admirable illustration of this latter construction of hill . It is composed of ...
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Page 618 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 184 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 319 - And brake up for it my decreed place, And set bars and doors, And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 289 - Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Page 259 - But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King : at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Page 134 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; 3 who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; 4 who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire; 5 who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Page 387 - And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Page 259 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass...
Page 495 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 364 - ... and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day. God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.