 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 pàgines
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the...and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with great celerity*. It is proper,' he observes in continuation, ' to derive our explanations from things... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pàgines
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the cause to the ground, neither to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 pàgines
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, neither to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pàgines
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, neither to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pàgines
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, neither to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to... | |
 | 1847 - 486 pàgines
...Strabo : " We must therefore ascribe the cause [of changes of level] to the ground, — either to ilmt ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes...flooded by it, but rather to that which lies beneath the iea,for this » more movable, and on account of its humidity, cinbn altered with greater celerity."... | |
 | James Buckman - 1849 - 42 pàgines
...same land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...its humidity can be altered with greater celerity." He further says, " It is proper to derive our explanations from things which are obvious, and in some... | |
 | British geology - 1850 - 332 pàgines
...depressed, and the sea also is sometimes raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the cause to the ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it ; rather, however, to the former, for... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pàgines
...and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the...that which lies beneath the sea, for this is more movable and, on account of its humidity, can be altered with greater celerity.* It is proper ," he... | |
 | William Smith - 1857 - 744 pàgines
...so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. Wo must therefore ascribe the canse to the ground, either to that ground which is under...for this is more moveable, and, on account of its wetness, can be altered with greater quickness." (Lyell, Genhgy, p. 17; Humboldt, Cosmos, vol. ii.... | |
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... depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to that which lies beneath... 
