The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan, 1887 - 481 páginas |
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... interesting varieties of weathering . The joints by which they are so abundantly traversed serve as channels for the action of percolating water and frost , and hence as lines along which the rocks are split open . In such a rock as ...
... interesting varieties of weathering . The joints by which they are so abundantly traversed serve as channels for the action of percolating water and frost , and hence as lines along which the rocks are split open . In such a rock as ...
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... interesting archæological discoveries which in recent years have been made in them . From those of Wigton and Culbin , in particular , thousands of objects have been recovered , ranging in antiquity from the Stone Age up to the reign of ...
... interesting archæological discoveries which in recent years have been made in them . From those of Wigton and Culbin , in particular , thousands of objects have been recovered , ranging in antiquity from the Stone Age up to the reign of ...
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... interesting if we could trace the gradual retreat of the Scottish coast - line since man became an in- habitant of the country , or even since the time to which the earliest historical notices refer . No written records of such changes ...
... interesting if we could trace the gradual retreat of the Scottish coast - line since man became an in- habitant of the country , or even since the time to which the earliest historical notices refer . No written records of such changes ...
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... interesting examples both of loss and gain of land . There is a tradi- tion that the low tract between Lossiemouth and Burghead Bay was in the 11th century a sea - strait through which the Danes piloted their war - ships . But owing to ...
... interesting examples both of loss and gain of land . There is a tradi- tion that the low tract between Lossiemouth and Burghead Bay was in the 11th century a sea - strait through which the Danes piloted their war - ships . But owing to ...
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... interesting proof of the inroads of the sea upon the hard flagstones of that iron - bound shore . A ' brough ' or ' Pict's House , ' which , of course , had been originally entire , and had , no doubt , been built near the edge of the ...
... interesting proof of the inroads of the sea upon the hard flagstones of that iron - bound shore . A ' brough ' or ' Pict's House , ' which , of course , had been originally entire , and had , no doubt , been built near the edge of the ...
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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...