Chips and Chapters, a Book for Amateur and Young GeologistsW. Blackwood and sons, 1869 - 303 páginas |
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... relation to it , than the most learned student who is deep - read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature . " - Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk , ' British As- sociation , 1868 . CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK ...
... relation to it , than the most learned student who is deep - read in the records of humanity and ignorant of those of nature . " - Professor Huxley's Lecture On a Bit of Chalk , ' British As- sociation , 1868 . CHIPS AND CHAPTERS A BOOK ...
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... own peculiar rocks and their relations , and believing in the fixed and enduring nature of these forces , we seek to discover the changes it us . has undergone in time past by examining the GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS . 17.
... own peculiar rocks and their relations , and believing in the fixed and enduring nature of these forces , we seek to discover the changes it us . has undergone in time past by examining the GEOLOGY - ITS AIM AND OBJECTS . 17.
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... relations of the living economy , they become doubly so when studied in connection with the fossil , -the whole marking a progress in time from the simple to the complex , from the general to the special , and from the merely sen- tient ...
... relations of the living economy , they become doubly so when studied in connection with the fossil , -the whole marking a progress in time from the simple to the complex , from the general to the special , and from the merely sen- tient ...
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... the soils are either derived from , or have fixed relations to , the rocks beneath them , the farmer may , in like manner , derive important hints from a study of geology . It may be quite true 28 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
... the soils are either derived from , or have fixed relations to , the rocks beneath them , the farmer may , in like manner , derive important hints from a study of geology . It may be quite true 28 CHIPS AND CHAPTERS .
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... relations to scenery cannot fail to be of value . On the rocks and soils of a district depend its capabilities for improvement ; and without a knowledge of this connec- tion there can be no judicious laying out of estates , planting of ...
... relations to scenery cannot fail to be of value . On the rocks and soils of a district depend its capabilities for improvement ; and without a knowledge of this connec- tion there can be no judicious laying out of estates , planting of ...
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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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