The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan, 1887 - 481 páginas |
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... hollows of the earth More multitudinous every moment , rend Their way before them - what a joy to roam An equal among mightiest energies ! WORDSWORTH , Excursion , b . iv . CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY He He ploughs AMONG the many forms.
... hollows of the earth More multitudinous every moment , rend Their way before them - what a joy to roam An equal among mightiest energies ! WORDSWORTH , Excursion , b . iv . CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY He He ploughs AMONG the many forms.
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... hollow bottom , broad and deep , Capacious bed of waters.'1 But even amid the light of science , with recognition of the truth that instead of being remnants of a primeval chaos , mountains are of many different ages , and have , indeed ...
... hollow bottom , broad and deep , Capacious bed of waters.'1 But even amid the light of science , with recognition of the truth that instead of being remnants of a primeval chaos , mountains are of many different ages , and have , indeed ...
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... hollow bottom , broad and deep , Capacious bed of waters.'1 But even amid the light of science , with recognition of the truth that instead of being remnants of a primeval chaos , mountains are of many different ages , and have , indeed ...
... hollow bottom , broad and deep , Capacious bed of waters.'1 But even amid the light of science , with recognition of the truth that instead of being remnants of a primeval chaos , mountains are of many different ages , and have , indeed ...
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... hollow along which it descends . The form and dimen- sions of the hollow may vary indefinitely , but the general symmetry of the system is maintained . No ordinary map can adequately represent these hollows , but it aims at depicting at ...
... hollow along which it descends . The form and dimen- sions of the hollow may vary indefinitely , but the general symmetry of the system is maintained . No ordinary map can adequately represent these hollows , but it aims at depicting at ...
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... read by every geological student . As a model of terse , clear , and elegant exposition of the truths of physical geology it still stands unrivalled . any hollow or flatter part of the beach . Thus CHAP . I 7 EXCAVATION OF VALLEYS.
... read by every geological student . As a model of terse , clear , and elegant exposition of the truths of physical geology it still stands unrivalled . any hollow or flatter part of the beach . Thus CHAP . I 7 EXCAVATION OF VALLEYS.
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Ayrshire basalt basin beds boulder-clay boulders Caithness Carboniferous cliffs Clyde coast coast-line conglomerate conspicuous corries crags crest deep denudation deposits descend district drainage dykes east erosion escarpments feet Firth Firth of Clyde frosts geological structure Glacial glaciers Glen gneiss granite greywacke height high grounds Highlands hills hollow ice-sheet ice-worn island lake land landscape limestone Loch Loch Fyne Lomond Lower Old Red Lowlands marked mass Midland Valley miles moraines Moray Firth mounds mountains narrow northern Ochil Ochil Hills Old Red Sandstone once peat Pentland Hills Permian plain precipices present quartzite railway raised beach ravine region ridges rise river rocky runs sand scenery schists Scotland Scottish sea-lochs seen shores side Silurian Skye slopes smooth Southern Uplands stone strata stream striæ striking sub-aërial summit surface Sutherland table-land terrace traced tract volcanic rocks waste watershed western wide worn
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Página 374 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 7 - Be gather'd now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.
Página 316 - Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered in the sun, And one bare dwelling ; one abode, no more...
Página 72 - ... acclivity to a distance almost incredible. In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet.
Página 161 - Inscribed, as with the silence of the thought, Upon its bleak and visionary sides, The history of many a winter storm, Or obscure records of the path of fire.
Página 11 - If, indeed, a river consisted of a single stream without branches, running in a straight valley, it might be supposed that some great concussion, or some powerful torrent, had opened at once the channel by which its waters are conducted to the ocean; but, when the usual form of a river is considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which rise at...
Página 244 - From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Página 59 - This massive structure, rising 112 feet above the sea-level, 'is literally buried in foam and spray to the very top during ground swells when there is no wind.' Experiments were made there from the middle of September 1844 to the end of March 1845, and the greatest recorded pressure was 3013 pounds on the square foot.
Página 59 - It is certain, however, that within a recent period the sea has made such an impression upon the sands of Barrey, on the northern side of the Tay, that the light-houses at the entrance of...