Outlines of Geology: Intended as a Popular Treatise on the Most Interesting Parts of the Science, Together with an Examination of the Question, Whether the Days of Creation Were Indefinite Periods : Designed for the Use of Schools and General ReadersRobinson, Pratt, & Company, 1837 - 384 pages |
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... feet deep , and three quarters of wide . Its descent is fifty feet in half a mile . Goat at the very verge of the cataract , divides the water parts . The stream on the American side is 1,072 de ; and the curvature of the great Horse ...
... feet deep , and three quarters of wide . Its descent is fifty feet in half a mile . Goat at the very verge of the cataract , divides the water parts . The stream on the American side is 1,072 de ; and the curvature of the great Horse ...
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... feet , but is much narrower to- stown . of rock through which it passes consists of 1 shale , the latter a dark coloured shelly form- et thick , lying under the limestone . The 70 feet thick , above which is the ordinary untry . tone is ...
... feet , but is much narrower to- stown . of rock through which it passes consists of 1 shale , the latter a dark coloured shelly form- et thick , lying under the limestone . The 70 feet thick , above which is the ordinary untry . tone is ...
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... feet thick . A curious which produces medallions in basso - relievo is -n at this place . cory The solid matter left stone and gypsum rock . of a mile in breadth , an dred and fifty feet in thi ste terminates abruptly which carries away ...
... feet thick . A curious which produces medallions in basso - relievo is -n at this place . cory The solid matter left stone and gypsum rock . of a mile in breadth , an dred and fifty feet in thi ste terminates abruptly which carries away ...
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... feet in thickness . The length of this depo- es abruptly , being crossed by a small stream , saway the undeposited ... thick . It is r , that these thermal springs being caused by , might have been formed within the last two rs . ent ...
... feet in thickness . The length of this depo- es abruptly , being crossed by a small stream , saway the undeposited ... thick . It is r , that these thermal springs being caused by , might have been formed within the last two rs . ent ...
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... feet in thickne Roman buildings judges that this accumu eight hundred on t years . eph of this accumula ties , we should see a ne hundred feet thick , and nearly two miles in.
... feet in thickne Roman buildings judges that this accumu eight hundred on t years . eph of this accumula ties , we should see a ne hundred feet thick , and nearly two miles in.
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Page 341 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
Page 318 - 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"; 1 VOID : empty.
Page 328 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 321 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 323 - And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven.
Page 368 - God said, Let there be light: let there be a firmament: let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place: let the earth bring forth: let there be lights in the firmament of heaven.
Page 335 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 140 - ... processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones.
Page 369 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field...
Page 99 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth...