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, 1836 - 372 pages |
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... described , and sometimes after run- ning ten or twenty miles , returns back again nearly to the same point . The fertile valley of the Connecticut has been formed in a great measure , by the same means . rich meadows , now every year ...
... described , and sometimes after run- ning ten or twenty miles , returns back again nearly to the same point . The fertile valley of the Connecticut has been formed in a great measure , by the same means . rich meadows , now every year ...
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... described took place in August , 1826 , and was in consequence of the fall of an immense quantity of rain on the mountain . On both sides of the river Saco , innumerable rocks and stone , many of them of sufficient size to fill a common ...
... described took place in August , 1826 , and was in consequence of the fall of an immense quantity of rain on the mountain . On both sides of the river Saco , innumerable rocks and stone , many of them of sufficient size to fill a common ...
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... described , the river Dranse , having no settled channel , shifted its posi- tion continually from one side to the other of the valley , carrying away newly erected bridges , undermining houses , and continuing to be charged with as ...
... described , the river Dranse , having no settled channel , shifted its posi- tion continually from one side to the other of the valley , carrying away newly erected bridges , undermining houses , and continuing to be charged with as ...
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... described . The waters which supply them are impregnated with carbonate of lime , and sulphate of lime , ( gypsum . ) They flow from the spring immediately into a pond , where in twenty years a solid rock has been deposited thirty feet ...
... described . The waters which supply them are impregnated with carbonate of lime , and sulphate of lime , ( gypsum . ) They flow from the spring immediately into a pond , where in twenty years a solid rock has been deposited thirty feet ...
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... described . Silicious Springs . Although we possess no chemical process by which water can be made to dissolve pure silex , or flint , yet in the great labratory of nature , this effect is produced . There is , however , a process in ...
... described . Silicious Springs . Although we possess no chemical process by which water can be made to dissolve pure silex , or flint , yet in the great labratory of nature , this effect is produced . There is , however , a process in ...
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Page 305 - 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. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 302 - 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 307 - 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 352 - 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 319 - 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 326 - 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 214 - On the keeper putting a spar of wood two inches in diameter into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power of his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much as a miner's crushing mill, or the scissors with which they cut off bars of iron and copper in the metal foundries.
Page 325 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God mad* the earth and the heavens.
Page 353 - 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 300 - Let the water under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.