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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... Land and sea , proportions of , Lava , Lake Cirknitzersee , 216 Monte Bolca , fossil fish of , 217 Monocotyledonous plants , 266 Morea , caverns in the , Mosaic history of the deluge , coincidence of geology Page , 297 307 268 67 21 160 ...
... Land and sea , proportions of , Lava , Lake Cirknitzersee , 216 Monte Bolca , fossil fish of , 217 Monocotyledonous plants , 266 Morea , caverns in the , Mosaic history of the deluge , coincidence of geology Page , 297 307 268 67 21 160 ...
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... land shells , at Argonauta , 287 the mouth of , 50 Dentalium , 288 delta of in Geneva lake , 45 Bulla , 288 in the sea , Voluta , 289 Rhinoceros fossil , 79 Buccinum , 289 species of , 247 Strombus , 289 found on the Lena , 227 Murex ...
... land shells , at Argonauta , 287 the mouth of , 50 Dentalium , 288 delta of in Geneva lake , 45 Bulla , 288 in the sea , Voluta , 289 Rhinoceros fossil , 79 Buccinum , 289 species of , 247 Strombus , 289 found on the Lena , 227 Murex ...
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... land by , 23 24 - 158 Volcanoes , geography of , geological connections of , proximity of to the sea , of Iceland , Page . 254 354 195 198 140 191 196 - 195 278 278 4 93 · · 96 84 · 125 113 89 75 91 226 91 - 119 100 198 elevation of land ...
... land by , 23 24 - 158 Volcanoes , geography of , geological connections of , proximity of to the sea , of Iceland , Page . 254 354 195 198 140 191 196 - 195 278 278 4 93 · · 96 84 · 125 113 89 75 91 226 91 - 119 100 198 elevation of land ...
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... land , preparatory to the creation of man , and for his habitation . He imagined , also , that the temperature of the earth was continually diminishing , and that the level of the sea was constantly sinking . The first idea was ...
... land , preparatory to the creation of man , and for his habitation . He imagined , also , that the temperature of the earth was continually diminishing , and that the level of the sea was constantly sinking . The first idea was ...
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... land - the wa- ters of the Heavens reducing all to a level , will at last de- liver all , over to the sea , which successively prevailing over the land , will leave dry , new continents like those which we inhabit . " The objectionable ...
... land - the wa- ters of the Heavens reducing all to a level , will at last de- liver all , over to the sea , which successively prevailing over the land , will leave dry , new continents like those which we inhabit . " The objectionable ...
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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.