The Old Red SandstoneGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 288 páginas |
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The Old Red Sandstone: Or, New Walks in An Old Field, Volume 1 Hugh Miller Visualização completa - 1889 |
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abundance Agassiz ancient animal appearance Balruddery body bone bony Caithness carboniferous cartilaginous Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color composed conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit depth described Dipterus discovered district edge enamelled entire existing feet fins fish Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge HUGH MILLER hundred ichthyolite beds ichthyolites immense inches jaws Lias limestone localities lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass middle minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules northern occur ocean Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone organisms osseous Osteolepis peculiar period plates portion present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains resembling ridge rock scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clay stratum surface Sutor tail teeth thickly thickness tion trilobite tubercles Upper Old Red vast vegetable vertebral vertebral column
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Página 165 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 225 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 49 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Página 202 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the...
Página 49 - Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing — On superior...
Página 50 - ... of three orders of being, the first and the third receive any advantage from the imperfection of the second, or that indeed they may not equally exist, though the second had never been, or should cease to be, and why should that be concluded necessary, which cannot be proved even to be useful ? The scale of existence from infinity to nothing, cannot possibly have being.
Página 5 - ... boarding-pikes, were occasionally picked up; and that in his father's days the country people called them thunderbolts, and deemed them of sovereign efficacy in curing bewitched cattle. Our employer, on quitting the quarry for the building on which we were to be engaged, gave all the workmen a half-holiday. I employed it in visiting the place where the thunderbolts had fallen so thickly, and found it a richer scene of wonder than I could have fancied in even my dreams.
Página 32 - ... arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (or skate,) and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure.
Página 225 - Now in pellucid sapphires meet the view, And emulate the soft celestial hue ; Now beam a flaming crimson on the eye, And now assume the purple's deeper dye...
Página 6 - What first attracted my notice was a detached group of low lying skerries, wholly different in form and color from the sandstone cliffs above, or the primary rocks a little farther to the west. I found them composed of thin strata of limestone, alternating with thicker beds of a black slaty substance...