 | 1816 - 442 pages
...as sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on...; their death, decomposition, and decay, afford a certaintjuantity of organizable matter, which mixes with the earthy materials of the rock ; in this... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1822 - 1494 pages
...as sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of dirJcrent degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on...lichens, mosses, and other imperfect vegetables which arc constantly floating in the atmosphere, and which have made it their resting-place, begin to vegetate... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1825 - 1250 pages
...and the undecompoeed quartz appears as gravel, or sand ot different decrees of fineness. As soon us the smallest layer of earth is formed on the surface of a rock, the seeds of lichen«, mosses, and other imperfect vegetables which are constantly floating in the atmosphere, and... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1826 - 1252 pages
...ал. sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on...floating in the atmosphere, and which have made it their resting-place, begin to vegetate ; their death, decomposition, and decay afford a certain quantity... | |
 | 1826 - 488 pages
...as sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. " As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on the surface of a rock, the seeds of the lichens, mosses, and other imperfect vegetables, which are constantly floating in the atmosphere,... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...as sand ; and the undeOTposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fatness. " As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on the surface of i rock, the seeds of the lichens, mosses, and other imperfect vegetables which are constantly floating... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1831 - 1330 pages
...as sand ; and the undecompoeed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of difieren t degree« of ânene«* As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on the surface of a rock, the seeds of lichen«, mue«, and other, imperfect vegetables which are constantly Moating in the atmosphere, and... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1832 - 426 pages
...as sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on...of a rock, the seeds of lichens, mosses and other vegetables of the kind which are constantly floating in the atmosphere, and which have made it their... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1835 - 1326 pages
...as sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on...floating in the atmosphere, and which have made it their resting-place, begin to vegetate ; their death, decomposition, and decay, afford a certain quantity... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1836 - 458 pages
...as sand ; and the undecomposed quartz appears as gravel, or sand of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on...floating in the atmosphere, and which have made it their resting-place, begin to vegetate ; their death, decomposition, and decay, afford a certain quantity... | |
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... of different degrees of fineness. As soon as the smallest layer of earth is formed on the surface of a rock, the seeds of lichens, mosses, and other imperfect vegetables which are constantly floating in the atmosphere ; and which have made it their... 
