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Pàgina 58 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Pàgina 77 - Africa roamed here in herds, if we may judge from the abundance of their remains. Two-horned rhinoceroses, of at least two species, forced their way through the ancient forests, or wallowed in the swamps. The lakes and rivers were tenanted by hippopotamuses, as bulky and with as formidable tusks as those of Africa. Three kinds of wild oxen, two of which were of colossal strength, and one of them maned and villous like the bonassus, found subsistence in the plains.
Pàgina 75 - ... zoophytes, since not only are their external forms and their superficial markings often highly characteristic of those organisms, but when sections of them are made sufficiently thin to be transparent, a spongy texture may be most distinctly recognised in their interior.
Pàgina 76 - Tigers, as large again as the biggest Asiatic species, lurked in the ancient thickets ; elephants of nearly twice the bulk of the largest individuals that now exist in Africa or Ceylon, roamed in herds ; at" least two species of rhinoceros forced their way through the primaeval forest; and the lakes and rivers were tenanted by hippopotami as bulky, and with as great tusks, as those of Africa.
Pàgina 106 - Post-Office is done by steamers, and all the passengers and much of the goods' traffic between the parts of Great Britain and Ireland, have been within the last quarter of a century transferred to them. "After the steamboat had thus passed through the various stages of infancy and childhood — had tried its strength on English rivers, in the Irish Sea, and in the British Channel — men began to ask, was it not strong enough and old enough to do more ? Could it not cross an ocean as well as a channel...
Pàgina 76 - England, for example) were, before these changes, the beds of seas. This is the last of the great convulsions which the earth has undergone, for the tertiary strata which afterwards began to be deposited rest in the hollows or basins (chiefly in the chalk) then left; the alterations in and since these deposits appear to consist chiefly of the upheaval of certain localities, the depression of others, the evaporation of inland lakes, and the wear and tear of the land from...
Pàgina 77 - ... formidable tusks as those of Africa. Three kinds of wild Oxen, two of which were of colossal size and strength, and one of these maned and villous like the Bonassus, found subsistence in the plains. Deer, as gigantic in proportion to existing species, were the contemporaries of the old Uri and Bisontes, and may have disputed with them the pasturage of that ancient land: one of these extinct Deer is well known under the name of
Pàgina 99 - Prance and Spain, onwards to the coasts of Africa and South America, the West Indies, and again to the Gulf of Mexico, although the return current does not go by the name of Gulf-Stream. This great stream of water warmed by the tropical sun serves the same two purposes described under the section "Air...
Pàgina 99 - That the constant currents of the sea prevent the formation and growth of sea-weed, is clearly shown by the great " Sargasso Sea," or tract of weed (Fucus natans), called the Gulf-weed. This great tract embraces thousands of square miles, and is situated in the very middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where there are but few currents ; but surrounding it is the Gulf-Stream, an enormous current of water running at a regular rate of four or five miles an hour. This Gulf-Stream is supposed to be caused by...
Pàgina 58 - TBILOBITE. placed at the bottom of the sea with perfect power to look upwards at the light of the sun through the transparent waters. The same hand and the same power had then Divine care and solicitude for the well-being of His creatures, as great as He has for those of later ages...