Old Red Sandstone ...Gould and Lincoln, 1851 - 312 pàgines |
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abundance acquainted Agassiz amid ancient animal appearance Balruddery body bone bony Caithness cartilaginous Cephalaspis character Cheiracanthus Cheirolepis Coal Measures coast Coccosteus color conglomerate Cornstone covered creature Cromarty crustacean deposit described diluvium Dipterus edge edition enamelled entire existing feet fins fish Forfarshire fossils fragments furnished Gamrie geological geologist gneiss granitic hills Holoptychius huge hundred ichthyolite beds illustration inch instance interest jaws Lias lime limestone localities lower formation Lower Old Red marked mass minute Moray Moray Frith Murchison nodules occur Old Red Sand Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms osseous Osteolepis patches peculiar period plates portion precipices present Pterichthys quarry rays reader regarded remains reptiles resembling ridge rocks scales schists Scotland seems shells shore side Silurian skeleton species specimens spines stone strata stratified clays stratum style surface Sutor tail teeth thick thickly tion trilobite vast vegetable impressions vertebral column
Passatges populars
Pàgina 157 - 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.
Pàgina 61 - 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...
Pàgina 213 - 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.
Pàgina 235 - Trans., with Notes, by T. Ross. 3 vols. Views of Nature ; or, Contemplations of the Sublime Phenomena of Creation, with Scientific Illustrations. Trans, by EC Otte.
Pàgina 233 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY : Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the RACES OF ANIMALS living and extinct, with numerous illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part I., COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY. By Louis AOASSIZ and AUGUSTUS A.
Pàgina 249 - This is a new work on morals, for academic use, and we welcome it with much satisfaction. It is the result of several years' reflection and experience in teaching, on the part of its justly distinguished author ; and if it is not perfectly what we could wish, yet, in the most important respects, it supplies a want which has been extensively felt...
Pàgina 196 - Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the...
Pàgina 246 - ... designed. The subject matter is selected with great judgment, and evinces uncommon industry and research. We earnestly hope that parents and teachers will examine and judge for themselves, as we frol confident they will coincide with us in opinion. We only hope the circulation of the work will be commensurate with its merits.
Pàgina 246 - We are free to say that it is, in our opinion, decidedly the best work we have any knowledge of, on the sublime and interesting subject of Astronomy. The engravings are executed in a superior style, and the mechanical appearance of the book is extremely prepossessing. The knowledge imparted is in language at once chaste, elegant and simple, — adapted to the comprehension of those for whom it is designed.
Pàgina 61 - 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...