Sketch-book of Popular GeologyW. P. Nimmo, 1869 - 356 σελίδες |
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ages amber amid Ammonites ancient animal Arthur Seat beds Belemnite bottom boulder boulder-clay Brora Caithness Carboniferous Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cones contains corals creature Cromarty curious deposits depth district division earth Eathie elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished ganoid geologic geologist glacier gneiss granite grey grooved Helmsdale Highlands hills hollow hundred island lake land least Lias Loch lower mark masses miles molluscs Moray Moray Firth mosses mountain neighbourhood northern occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Paleozoic peculiar period pine plants Pleistocene poet portion precipices present remains reptile resemble rise river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scene scenery Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves woods
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Σελίδα 94 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Σελίδα 147 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Σελίδα 289 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Σελίδα 230 - Arcadian plain. Pure stream, in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white round polished pebbles spread...
Σελίδα 228 - Gray birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Σελίδα 227 - Boon nature scattered, free and wild, Each plant or flower, the mountain's child ; Here eglantine embalmed the air, Hawthorn and hazel mingled there ; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each clift a narrow bower ; Foxglove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride...
Σελίδα 17 - This elegant and useful Series of Books has been specially prepared for School and College Prizes: they are, however, equally suitable for General Presentation. In selecting the works for this Series, the aim of the publisher has been to produce books of a permanent value, interesting in...
Σελίδα 227 - Or mosque of Eastern architect. Nor were these earth-born castles bare, Nor lacked they many a banner fair; For, from their shivered brows displayed, Far o'er the unfathomable glade, All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen, The brier-rose fell in streamers green, And creeping shrubs, of thousand dyes, Waved in the west-wind's summer sighs.
Σελίδα 129 - OF chance or change, O let not man complain, Else shall he never never cease to wail ! For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain Rears the lone cottage in the silent dale, All feel the assault of fortune's fickle gale...
Σελίδα 214 - Water ; and in that direction you see Teviotdale and the Braes of Yarrow, and Ettrick stream winding along like a silver thread, to throw itself into the Tweed.' He went on thus to call over names celebrated in Scottish song, and most of which had recently received a romantic interest from his own pen. In fact...