An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Earth,: And Terrestrial Bodyes, Especialy Minerals: as Also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. : With an Account of the Universal Deluge: and of the Effects that it Had Upon the EarthA. Bettesworth and W. Taylor ... R. Gosling ... and J. Clarke, 1723 - 304 pages |
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... ticles of Stone , Marble , and all other folid Fofils being dissevered , taken up into the Water , and there fuftained together with Sea Shells and other A- nimal nimal and Vegetable Bodyes and that the prefent Earth confifts The PREFACE .
... ticles of Stone , Marble , and all other folid Fofils being dissevered , taken up into the Water , and there fuftained together with Sea Shells and other A- nimal nimal and Vegetable Bodyes and that the prefent Earth confifts The PREFACE .
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... prefent Earth confifts , and was formed out of that promifcuous Mafs of Sand , Earth , Shells , and the reft , falling down again , and fubfiding from the Water . But who- ever fhall duely attend to what I elsewhere lay down , viz ...
... prefent Earth confifts , and was formed out of that promifcuous Mafs of Sand , Earth , Shells , and the reft , falling down again , and fubfiding from the Water . But who- ever fhall duely attend to what I elsewhere lay down , viz ...
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... prefent Obfervations are , but fee in what Manner alfo , and with what kind of Accuracy they were made , ' twill be ... pre- fent Satisfaction to the Curiofity and Demands of fome of my Friends . The The Obfervations I speak of were all ...
... prefent Obfervations are , but fee in what Manner alfo , and with what kind of Accuracy they were made , ' twill be ... pre- fent Satisfaction to the Curiofity and Demands of fome of my Friends . The The Obfervations I speak of were all ...
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... prefent Condition of the Earth , and all Bodyes contain'd in it , as far as either Grotto's , or other Natural Caverns , or Mines , Quarries , Cole- pits , and the like , let me into it , and difplayed to Sight the interiour Parts of it ...
... prefent Condition of the Earth , and all Bodyes contain'd in it , as far as either Grotto's , or other Natural Caverns , or Mines , Quarries , Cole- pits , and the like , let me into it , and difplayed to Sight the interiour Parts of it ...
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... prefent at leaft ) with what I had already done ; having little Profpect of an Opportunity of car- rying on thefe Obfervations any far- ther , or of going beyond Seas , to confider the State of the Earth , and of all Sorts of Foffils ...
... prefent at leaft ) with what I had already done ; having little Profpect of an Opportunity of car- rying on thefe Obfervations any far- ther , or of going beyond Seas , to confider the State of the Earth , and of all Sorts of Foffils ...
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