The Lithology of EdinburghWilliam P. Kennedy, 1859 - 102 pages |
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Page xxi
... considering me wrong was , ' no such arrangement exists in the Wern . Geog . ' My Dundee paper confirmed ' Papa Stour ... consider not upon what they are trampling . " Dr Fleming intimated to the managers of the Cork Institu- tion his ...
... considering me wrong was , ' no such arrangement exists in the Wern . Geog . ' My Dundee paper confirmed ' Papa Stour ... consider not upon what they are trampling . " Dr Fleming intimated to the managers of the Cork Institu- tion his ...
Page xxxviii
... consider him bound in honour to assist me , and not to lead the readers of the journal to suppose , as some of them have done , that his views are opposite to my own . " But that Jameson was not insensible to the merit of Flem- ing's ...
... consider him bound in honour to assist me , and not to lead the readers of the journal to suppose , as some of them have done , that his views are opposite to my own . " But that Jameson was not insensible to the merit of Flem- ing's ...
Page xxxix
... consider the causes by which the different modern strata have been produced , as analogous to those which have contributed to the formation of the strata belonging to the more an- cient epochs of the earth's history ? If this question ...
... consider the causes by which the different modern strata have been produced , as analogous to those which have contributed to the formation of the strata belonging to the more an- cient epochs of the earth's history ? If this question ...
Page xlv
... consider me , however , as deficient either in gratitude or respect , I will add , reluctantly , some remarks which , from their insignifi- cance , will probably satisfy you , that you have applied to a wrong quarter , and yet are they ...
... consider me , however , as deficient either in gratitude or respect , I will add , reluctantly , some remarks which , from their insignifi- cance , will probably satisfy you , that you have applied to a wrong quarter , and yet are they ...
Page xlvii
... consider what I have said in the letter on the Definition of the term Insect in the third vol . , and in that on Systems of Entomology in the fourth , you will see that I have avoided expressing myself decidedly on the quinary or ...
... consider what I have said in the letter on the Definition of the term Insect in the third vol . , and in that on Systems of Entomology in the fourth , you will see that I have avoided expressing myself decidedly on the quinary or ...
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Page xxix - For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it ; and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm-casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine...
Page xxix - Earthworms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm. For to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be great promoters of vegetation...
Page 96 - A great wave swept over the coast of Spain, and is said to have been sixty feet high at Cadiz. At Tangier, in Africa, it rose and fell eighteen times on the coast; at Funchal, in Madeira, it rose full fifteen feet perpendicular above high-water mark, although the tide, which ebbs and flows there seven feet, was then at half-ebb.
Page xliii - Many horses' heads, and bones of several kinds of deer, the horns of the antelope, the heads and tusks of boars, and the heads of beavers, are also found embedded in it.
Page xxix - Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably, to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms ; the former, because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work ; and the latter, because they think worms eat their green corn. But these men would find, that the earth without worms would soon become cold, hardbound, and void of fermentation ; and consequently sterile...
Page xl - ANGER is one of the sinews of the soul: he that wants it hath a maimed mind, and with Jacob sinew-shrunk in the hollow of his thigh, must needs halt. Nor is it good to converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian Sea, never ebb nor flow.
Page 46 - Lyell has given to the divisions of the tertiary strata the appellations pleiocene, meiocene, eocene, accordingly as they contain a majority of recent species of shells, a minority of such species, or a small proportion of living species, which may be looked upon as indicating the dawn of the existing state of the animate creation. But in this case, he wisely treats his distinctions, not as definitions, but as the marks of natural groups. " The plurality of species indicated by the name pleiocene,...
Page 51 - ... Taragmite series, formed subsequently to the dressings and groovings of the solid rocks, and, where present, reposing on them. They seem to have been formed when violent aqueous movements were taking place, and probably at a period when the state of our island was widely different from the present. The second, or Akumite series, is chiefly characterised by its laminated clays and sands, and indicates the assorting power of water under circumstances of comparative tranquillity. The third, or Phanerite...
Page 96 - There were twenty-three ships and vessels, great and small, in the harbor of Callao, of which nineteen were sunk ; and the other four, among which was a frigate called St. Fermin, were carried by the force of the waves to a great distance up the country, and left on dry ground at a considerable height above the sea.
Page 2 - It is thus, for example, turned to account by the author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.