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... limestones exhibit , and which nearly envelope the circumference of the globe . The order in which the strata are disposed is uniform from below up- ward , and this order is never ... limestone - limestone into chert - clay 18 INTRODUCTORY .
... limestones exhibit , and which nearly envelope the circumference of the globe . The order in which the strata are disposed is uniform from below up- ward , and this order is never ... limestone - limestone into chert - clay 18 INTRODUCTORY .
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John Anderson. converted into crystalline limestone - limestone into chert - clay and sandstone into a substance as hard and compact as flint - and coal is deprived of its bitumen or the quality which renders it so useful as a ...
John Anderson. converted into crystalline limestone - limestone into chert - clay and sandstone into a substance as hard and compact as flint - and coal is deprived of its bitumen or the quality which renders it so useful as a ...
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... grave ! The associated rocks , all of the primary class , are gneiss , mica - slate , quartz - rock , " hlorite - slate , and limestone ; and these inclose ( 22 ) CHAPTER II Primary System -Ben-Mac-Dhui - The Grampians, 22.
... grave ! The associated rocks , all of the primary class , are gneiss , mica - slate , quartz - rock , " hlorite - slate , and limestone ; and these inclose ( 22 ) CHAPTER II Primary System -Ben-Mac-Dhui - The Grampians, 22.
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John Anderson. hlorite - slate , and limestone ; and these inclose no relic of a living ing . Geology thus ascends the stream of Time ; but it gives no rther tidings of a scene like this , save that it arose from the epth beneath at the ...
John Anderson. hlorite - slate , and limestone ; and these inclose no relic of a living ing . Geology thus ascends the stream of Time ; but it gives no rther tidings of a scene like this , save that it arose from the epth beneath at the ...
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... limestone , and quartz . These types of rock line the trough of the Spey , on both sides , as far as the granite district of Ericht and Laggan , presenting the usual phenomena of granitic and feldspathic dykes , and in some places , as ...
... limestone , and quartz . These types of rock line the trough of the Spey , on both sides , as far as the granite district of Ericht and Laggan , presenting the usual phenomena of granitic and feldspathic dykes , and in some places , as ...
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Sida 121 - And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar...
Sida 86 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Sida 228 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Sida 89 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
Sida 93 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
Sida 315 - Or bright infers not excellence : the earth Though, in comparison of heaven, so small, Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines...
Sida 352 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Sida 357 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Sida 156 - ... band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break, Although it chill my withered cheek ; Still lay my head by Teviot stone, Though there, forgotten and alone, The Bard...
Sida 86 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.