The Wonders of Geology, Or A Familiar Exposition of Geological PhenomenaH.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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abundant ancient animals appear basalt beds beneath bones British Bryozoa calcareous Carboniferous carbonized cells Chalk character clay coal coal-field coal-measures colour composed conglomerates coniferous containing corals Cornbrash crater crinoids crustaceans crystalline deposits Devonian England epoch erupted existing extinct feet ferns fishes flora Flustra formation fossil genera genus Geol geological geologists gneiss granite Hill igneous Iguanodon islands Isle Journ Jurassic land lava layers Lias Lign limestone lower Lyell marine mass matter Medals of Creation Memoir miles mineral molluscs mountain Mountain-limestone Murchison nature North numerous observations occur Old Red Oolite organic remains paleozoic peculiar period Permian Petrifactions plants pliocene polypes present Prof Quart Red Sandstone remarkable reptiles rocks sand schists shales shells Sigillaria Silurian skeleton South species specimens stems stone Stonesfield strata structure substance surface tertiary thickness tion trees Trias Triassic upper vegetable veins volcanic Wealden Yorkshire Zoophytes
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الصفحة 947 - neither evil tongues. Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of common life, Can e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings!
الصفحة 691 - with festoons of the most graceful foliage, flung in wild irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels transported,
الصفحة 691 - will describe them in his own eloquent language. " The most elaborate imitations of living foliage upon the painted ceilings of Italian palaces bear no comparison with the beauteous profusion of extinct vegetable forms, with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of
الصفحة 939 - a little world within itself: most of the organic productions are aboriginal creations, found nowhere else. Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period geologically recent, the unbroken ocean
الصفحة 945 - leading forth their countless worlds! Worlds in whose bosoms living things rejoice, And drink the bliss of being from the fount Of all-pervading Love ! What mind can know, What tongue can utter all their multitudes, Thus numberless in numberless abodes ? Known but to thee, blest Father! Thine they are, Thy children, and thy care,—and none o'erlooked Of Thee!
الصفحة 691 - if by enchantment, into the forests of another world; he beholds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life; their scaly stems and bending branches, with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread forth before him, little impaired by the lapse of
الصفحة 692 - ages, and bearing faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in times of which these relics are the infallible historians. Such are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable kingdom are preserved in a state of integrity little short of their living perfection, under conditions of our planet which exist no more.
الصفحة 642 - touch. Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, Their masonry imperishable. All Life's needful functions, food, exertion, rest, By nice economy of Providence, Were overruled to carry on the process, Which out of water brought forth solid rock. Atom by atom, thus the mountain grew A
الصفحة 868 - columns of grey smoke or pyramids of brilliant flame : and at the same time vomited from their ignited mouths streams of lava, which rolled in blazing torrents down their black indented sides into the boiling mass below (see
الصفحة 860 - of heat; and thus the subsequent liquid lava might have flowed over the whole without affecting the ice beneath, which at such a height (ten thousand feet above the level of the sea) would endure as long as the snows of Mont Blanc, unless melted by volcanic heat from below.