The Cabinet of the Earth UnlockedJackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1867 - 52 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Pàgina 2 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Pàgina 19 - I at length found myself,' says he, 'as if placed in a charnel-house, surrounded by mutilated fragments of many hundred skeletons of more than twenty kinds of animals piled confusedly around me : the task assigned me was to restore them all to their original position. At the voice of comparative anatomy, every bone, and fragment of a bone, resumed its place.
Pàgina 19 - I predicted from it were successively confirmed ; the feet were found in accordance with the characters announced by the teeth ; the teeth in harmony with those indicated beforehand by the feet ; the bones of the legs and thighs, and every connecting portion of the extremities, were found set together...
Pàgina 20 - ... lakes and rivers. To an animal of such habits the weight of the tusks sustained in water would have been no source of inconvenience ; and, if we suppose them to have been employed as instruments for raking and grubbing up by the roots large aquatic vegetables from the bottom, they would, under such service, combine the mechanical powers of the pick-axe with those of the horse-harrow of modern husbandry. The weight of the head, placed above these downward tusks, would add to their efficiency for...
Pàgina 14 - Dirt-bed was cleared preparatory to its removal, and the appearance presented was most striking. The floor of the quarry was literally strewn with fossil wood, and before me was a petrified forest, the trees and plants, like the inhabitants of the city in Arabian story, being converted into stone, yet still remaining in the places which they occupied when alive...
Pàgina 12 - Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...