Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... question his qualifications ! Surely this is not as it ought to be ; and if it be true , as is sometimes said , that capital can look after itself , there ought * The latest misdirected attempt in search of coal that has come to our ...
... question his qualifications ! Surely this is not as it ought to be ; and if it be true , as is sometimes said , that capital can look after itself , there ought * The latest misdirected attempt in search of coal that has come to our ...
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... question of their durability , how they are affected by the weather , their absorption of moisture , the effect of exposure on their colour , hardness , and other architectural qualities . In a neighbourhood where long experience has ...
... question of their durability , how they are affected by the weather , their absorption of moisture , the effect of exposure on their colour , hardness , and other architectural qualities . In a neighbourhood where long experience has ...
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... question is , Will the thing pay ? and could not the difficulty have been otherwise overcome , or altogether avoid- ed , and another road chosen ? Stores of water are locked up in the strata of the earth's crust , but these stores ...
... question is , Will the thing pay ? and could not the difficulty have been otherwise overcome , or altogether avoid- ed , and another road chosen ? Stores of water are locked up in the strata of the earth's crust , but these stores ...
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... question naturally occurs , Where and what are these oldest strata ? We have traced life down to the Cambrian grits and slates , but beyond these lie the more crystallised gneiss , quartz - rocks , and granitoid schists of the Northern ...
... question naturally occurs , Where and what are these oldest strata ? We have traced life down to the Cambrian grits and slates , but beyond these lie the more crystallised gneiss , quartz - rocks , and granitoid schists of the Northern ...
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... question , What constitutes a system ? Shall we regard a system as a great series of strata characterised by the ... questions , we must adopt a some- what provisional course , avoiding sharp lines of demar- cation , and using the term ...
... question , What constitutes a system ? Shall we regard a system as a great series of strata characterised by the ... questions , we must adopt a some- what provisional course , avoiding sharp lines of demar- cation , and using the term ...
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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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