Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, Volume 1G. et W.B. Whittaker, 1821 - Natural history |
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... kind of stone is co- vered by another species of rock , and this by a third , and so on . In this superposition of rocks , it has been observed , that their situation is by no means arbitrary ; each occupies a determinate place , so ...
... kind of stone is co- vered by another species of rock , and this by a third , and so on . In this superposition of rocks , it has been observed , that their situation is by no means arbitrary ; each occupies a determinate place , so ...
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... kind of aggregation has hitherto occurred , namely , in the older serpentine , where lime - stone and serpentine are so conjoined , that it is difficult to say which predominates . II . Determinate . The determinate are either , I ...
... kind of aggregation has hitherto occurred , namely , in the older serpentine , where lime - stone and serpentine are so conjoined , that it is difficult to say which predominates . II . Determinate . The determinate are either , I ...
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... of layers of the same kind of stone , it is said to be stratified ; but when the layers are of different kinds of stone , it is said to be composed of beds . It is in the transition rocks that petrifactions first make 6 Geology .
... of layers of the same kind of stone , it is said to be stratified ; but when the layers are of different kinds of stone , it is said to be composed of beds . It is in the transition rocks that petrifactions first make 6 Geology .
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... kind consist of sand , gravel , & c . which consti- tuted the more solid parts of the neighbouring mountains , and which remained when the less solid parts were washed away . They sometimes contain ores ( particularly gold and tin ) ...
... kind consist of sand , gravel , & c . which consti- tuted the more solid parts of the neighbouring mountains , and which remained when the less solid parts were washed away . They sometimes contain ores ( particularly gold and tin ) ...
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... mile or a mile off ; with the buildings and trees still standing on them ; and in this manner bills were levelled , and vallies were filled up . ** 1 But the most fatal accident of this kind happened Of Volcanoes . 15.
... mile or a mile off ; with the buildings and trees still standing on them ; and in this manner bills were levelled , and vallies were filled up . ** 1 But the most fatal accident of this kind happened Of Volcanoes . 15.
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Page 168 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
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Page 172 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood!
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Page 190 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
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Page 173 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.
Page 41 - ... the preceding January or February a volcano had burst out within the sea near St. Michael's, we immediately concluded that the smoke we saw proceeded from that cause, and, on our anchoring the next morning in the road of Ponta del Gada, we found this conjecture correct as to the cause, but not to the time ; the eruption of January having totally subsided, and the present one having only burst forth two days prior to our approach, and about three miles distant from the one before alluded to.
Page 27 - ... and of longer continuance than that heard within the tropics in time of storms. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from east to west.