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 pàgines |
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Pàgina iii
... extent and situation of seas , and the boundaries of nations , states , and towns , which our scholars spend so much time in committing to memory ? To supply the deficiency of books on this subject , adapted to general readers and to ...
... extent and situation of seas , and the boundaries of nations , states , and towns , which our scholars spend so much time in committing to memory ? To supply the deficiency of books on this subject , adapted to general readers and to ...
Pàgina 27
... extent . The Mississippi through a consid- erable part of its course , cuts across its immense valley in the manner here described , and sometimes after run- ning ten or twenty miles , returns back again nearly to the same point . The ...
... extent . The Mississippi through a consid- erable part of its course , cuts across its immense valley in the manner here described , and sometimes after run- ning ten or twenty miles , returns back again nearly to the same point . The ...
Pàgina 40
... extent with the kind of deposite called Travertine , already noticed . In some places these deposites are solid and smooth on the surface , much resembling currents of lava . Baths of San Vignone . This spring is also in Tusca- ny , and ...
... extent with the kind of deposite called Travertine , already noticed . In some places these deposites are solid and smooth on the surface , much resembling currents of lava . Baths of San Vignone . This spring is also in Tusca- ny , and ...
Pàgina 49
... other , a large tract of coun- try is brought within its influence , and thus besides ex- tending the land along the shore , marshes of great extent have , during the lapse of ages been filled up 5 DELTA OF THE RHONE IN THE SEA . 49.
... other , a large tract of coun- try is brought within its influence , and thus besides ex- tending the land along the shore , marshes of great extent have , during the lapse of ages been filled up 5 DELTA OF THE RHONE IN THE SEA . 49.
Pàgina 52
... extent , according to the account of Major Rennell , is equal to the whole principality of Wales . Its base , bordering on the sea , is about two hundred miles in length , and , on each side , it is enclosed by an arm of the Ganges ...
... extent , according to the account of Major Rennell , is equal to the whole principality of Wales . Its base , bordering on the sea , is about two hundred miles in length , and , on each side , it is enclosed by an arm of the Ganges ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 300 - Let the water under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.