A voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta, in 1810, & 11, Volym 2Pr. for J. Harding and M.N. Mahon, Dublin, 1815 |
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A voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and ..., Volym 2 Sir George Cockburn Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1815 |
A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, Up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta ... George Cockburn Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2016 |
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Sida 314 - In sinking a pit near Jaci, in the neighbourhood of Etna, they: have discovered evident marks of seven distinct lavas one under the other ; the surfaces of which are parallel, and most of them covered with a thick bed of rich earth : now, the eruption which formed the lowest of these lavas (if we may be * Brydone's Travels.
Sida 316 - This being admitted, which no philosopher will deny, the canon's analogy will prove just nothing at all, if we can produce an instance of seven different lavas (with interjacent strata of vegetable earth) which have flowed from Mount Vesuvius, within the space not of fourteen thousand, but of somewhat less than...
Sida 317 - ... ignorance the foundation of our infidelity, or suffering a minute philosopher to rob us of our religion. Your objections to revelation may be numerous ; you may find fault with the account which Moses has given of the creation and the fall ; you may not be able to get water enough for an universal deluge ; nor room enough in the ark of Noah. for all the different kinds of aerial and terrestrial animals...
Sida 256 - England white bait, but of a greater size, and which usually lie at the bottom of the sea, buried in the sand, have been, ever since the commencement of the earthquakes, and continue still to be, taken near the surface, and in such abundance, as to be the common food of the poorest sort of people; whereas, before the earthquakes, this fish was rare, and reckoned amongst the greatest delicacies.
Sida 315 - Carthagenian war ; and in the second place it may be observed that the time necessary for converting lavas into fertile fields must be very different, according to the different consistencies of the lavas, and their different situations with respect to...
Sida 316 - But if all this should be thought not sum*cient to remove the objection, I will produce the canon an analogy in opposition to his analogy, and which is grounded on more certain facts. Etna and Vesuvius resemble each other, in the causes which produce their eruptions...
Sida 315 - Mosaic account; yet that the earth itself was then created out of nothing, when man was placed upon it, is not, according to the sentiments of some philosophers, to be proved from the original text of sacred Scripture ; we might, I say, reply with these philosophers, to this formidable objection of the Canon, by granting it in its full extent. We are under no necessity, however, of...
Sida 248 - ... and that from the spot on which they formerly stood hot water had sprung up to a considerable height, mixed with sand of a ferruginous nature; that near this place also some countrymen and shepherds had been swallowed up with their teams of oxen and their flocks of...
Sida 313 - And these philosophers contend that they have indubitable proof of the earth's being at the least fourteen thousand years old ; and they complain that Moses hangs as a dead weight upon them, and blunts all their zeal for inquiry.
Sida 316 - ... for the purpose. The eruption of Vesuvius which destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii, is rendered still more famous by the death of Pliny, recorded by his nephew in his letter to Tacitus. This event happened in the year 79. It is not...