The Ancient World: Or, Picturesque Sketches of CreationJ. Van Voorst, 1847 - 408 páginas |
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... adapted for cultivation - her valuable mineral resources of coal , and of iron and other metals - her insular position - her temperate climate - her capa- bility of supplying almost all the wants of man ; —all these must be ranked among ...
... adapted for cultivation - her valuable mineral resources of coal , and of iron and other metals - her insular position - her temperate climate - her capa- bility of supplying almost all the wants of man ; —all these must be ranked among ...
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... adapted for it . The proper consideration of the three facts , or rather classes of facts , thus alluded to , cannot fail to satisfy any one that the strata of the earth's crust were formed gradually and slowly , under various cir ...
... adapted for it . The proper consideration of the three facts , or rather classes of facts , thus alluded to , cannot fail to satisfy any one that the strata of the earth's crust were formed gradually and slowly , under various cir ...
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... adapted to changing circumstances . In one word , it is by the proper interpretation of fossils that a science has arisen , unlike any other in its investigations ; nobler than any , except Astronomy , in the object at which it aims ...
... adapted to changing circumstances . In one word , it is by the proper interpretation of fossils that a science has arisen , unlike any other in its investigations ; nobler than any , except Astronomy , in the object at which it aims ...
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... seas . The chain coral ( 4 , 5 ) offers another and a beautiful example of this peculiar structure , and being a fossil exceedingly common in some silurian localities , is well adapted to illustrate the habits of 30 PICTURESQUE SKETCHES.
... seas . The chain coral ( 4 , 5 ) offers another and a beautiful example of this peculiar structure , and being a fossil exceedingly common in some silurian localities , is well adapted to illustrate the habits of 30 PICTURESQUE SKETCHES.
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Or, Picturesque Sketches of Creation David Thomas Ansted. localities , is well adapted to illustrate the habits of the group . The little animals in these cases secreted and built up their stone house , they ad- ded compartment to ...
Or, Picturesque Sketches of Creation David Thomas Ansted. localities , is well adapted to illustrate the habits of the group . The little animals in these cases secreted and built up their stone house , they ad- ded compartment to ...
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abundant adapted ammonite analogies ancient animals appear beds belemnite belonging birds bivalve body bones bony Brachiopoda carboniferous carnivorous Cephalopoda chalk character characteristic chiefly coal Coccosteus condition considerable continent coral covered crocodiles crustaceans deposit distinct districts earth elephant elevation enable encrinites England epoch Europe exhibit existing extended extinct extremities feet fins fishes fossils fragments genus geological gigantic habits head hyæna Ichthyosaurus Iguanodon important indications inhabitants islands kind known land length lias limestone London clay marine marked Megalosaurus nature nautilus nearly allied newer old red sandstone older oolitic peculiarities perhaps plates Plesiosaurus powerful present preserved probably proportions quadrupeds red sandstone remains remarkable represented reptiles reptilian resembling rocks sand scales secondary period sharks shell silurian singular skeleton species specimens strata structure surface tail teeth tertiary thick tion tract trees tribe Trilobites univalve various vast vegetable vertebræ whole
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Página 307 - The head was covered with a dry skin ; one of the ears, well preserved, was furnished with a tuft of hairs.
Página 308 - Covered with reddish wool and black hairs; but the dampness of the spot where it had lain so long had in some degree destroyed the hair. The entire carcase, of which I collected the bones on the spot, was nine feet four inches high, and sixteen feet four inches long, without including the tusks, which measured nine feet six inches along the curve. The distance from the base or root of the tusk to the point is three feet seven inches. The two tusks together weighed three hundred and sixty pounds English...
Página 201 - ... to the form of the body, for the head was totally different, the snout being enormously elongated, and the eyes exceedingly large ; while the organs of flight or wings were even more powerful in proportion, and the legs were probably capable of being used in the water, assisting the animal to swim. Let us now consider a little more in detail some of the peculiarities of structure of this strange monster. In the first place, the skull, far from resembling that of a bat or bird, resembles in its...
Página 376 - And now let us picture to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre re-acting upon its bony attachment with a force which the...
Página 306 - ... quite free from ice. The summer of 1802 was cold, but in 1803 part of the ice between the earth and the mammoth, for such was the object, having melted more rapidly than the rest, the plane of its support became inclined, and the enormous mass fell by its own weight on a bank of sand.
Página 308 - It is interspersed with a few bristles, about three inches long, of a dark reddish colour. Among the separate parcels of hair are some rather redder than the short hair just mentioned, about four inches long, and some bristles nearly black, much thicker than horse hair, and from twelve to eighteen inches long.
Página 15 - ... of igneous fusion), and that it cooled gradually at the surface, perhaps by exposure in space, contracting in dimensions as it cooled and hardened. In this manner, it may be, a succession of thin solid crusts were formed, each in succession shrinking and cracking, until at length, when a certain balance was arrived at between the thickness of the crust, the rate of cooling, and the amount of internal heat, there would be left a rough uneven surface, having many elevations and depressions, its...
Página 307 - found the Mammoth still in the same place, but altogether mutilated. The prejudices being dissipated because the Tungusian chief had recovered his health, there was no obstacle to prevent approach to the...
Página 234 - ... particles, and turn them back into the ascending stream of animal life. Having converted the dead and decomposing particles into their own living tissues, they themselves become the food of larger Infusoria...
Página 178 - Prowling about at a great depth, where the reptilian structure of its lungs, and the bony apparatus of the ribs would allow it to remain for a long time without coming to the air to breathe, we may fancy we see this strange animal, with its enormous eyes directed upwards, and glaring like globes of fire. Its length is some thirty or forty feet, its head being six or eight feet long ; and it has paddles and a tail like a shark ; its whole energies are fixed on what is going on above, where the' plesiosaurus...