Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... doubt , with the aid of good geological maps , and the proper skill to interpret them , the civil engineer may often see his course in a general way ; but there is ever an amount of detail- quality of rock , dip , jointing , dykes ...
... doubt , with the aid of good geological maps , and the proper skill to interpret them , the civil engineer may often see his course in a general way ; but there is ever an amount of detail- quality of rock , dip , jointing , dykes ...
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... doubt , every con- trivance , or , in other words , every arrangement , in the uni- verse may be made to yield evidence of this . But we would venture to suggest that the noblest view of creation , and a knowledge of the real greatness ...
... doubt , every con- trivance , or , in other words , every arrangement , in the uni- verse may be made to yield evidence of this . But we would venture to suggest that the noblest view of creation , and a knowledge of the real greatness ...
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... doubts or can doubt the formation of a new island by vol- canic agency when the event , as in the case of Santorino , is witnessed and described by trustworthy authorities . No one gainsays the effects of running water in eroding glens ...
... doubts or can doubt the formation of a new island by vol- canic agency when the event , as in the case of Santorino , is witnessed and described by trustworthy authorities . No one gainsays the effects of running water in eroding glens ...
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... doubts existed as to the splitting of the bones , we find , on more minute research , ashes and frag- ments of wood - charcoal scattered through the stalagmite , and then the presence of man in these caverns becomes at once an ...
... doubts existed as to the splitting of the bones , we find , on more minute research , ashes and frag- ments of wood - charcoal scattered through the stalagmite , and then the presence of man in these caverns becomes at once an ...
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... doubt , nor needs anything extraneous by way of supple- ment or corroboration . Nor , in dealing with its extinct forms of life , has the palæontologist anything more of doubt to contend with , though he has perhaps a much more ...
... doubt , nor needs anything extraneous by way of supple- ment or corroboration . Nor , in dealing with its extinct forms of life , has the palæontologist anything more of doubt to contend with , though he has perhaps a much more ...
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Página 135 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
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