Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains of the Vegetables and Animals of the Antediluvian World; Generally Termed Extraneous Fossils, 3. kötet

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Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1811

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450. oldal - 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...
134. oldal - A deadened clang — a huge dim form, Seen but, and heard, when gathering storm And night were closing round.
133. oldal - And how, of thousand snakes, each one Was changed into a coil of stone, When holy Hilda prayed ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...
202. oldal - Griffiths remarks that the large end of the shell is completely closed, and has a rounded appearance ; at this part it is very thin. The small end, or apex, is very brittle and...
448. oldal - ... the remains of marine animals may be expected to be met with : but in the earliest formation, that which is found on granite and accompanied by porphyry and greenstone or the like, it is probable that no remains of animals would be found; and fair proof would be yielded of an accordance, in this instance, between the order of creation as related by Moses, and the order in which the investing strata of the earth are disposed. " The creation of the succeeding period, according to the scriptural...
375. oldal - Besides the longitudinal stria? and grooves observable in the enamel of its sides and inferior parts, it is characterised by strong transverse rugous markings, which are placed at nearly regular distances of about two inches, and are observed to exist in the same manner on the fragment which joins to it The third specimen...
332. oldal - I in the solid calcareous rock ; but these are mistakes, which could onlv arise from inaccurate observation and false description. In the perpendicular fissures of the rock, and in some of the caverns of the mountain, (all of which afford evident proofs of their former communication with the surface), a calcareous...
332. oldal - It consists of pot -like holes, of various sizes, hollowed out of the solid rock, and formed apparently by the attrition of gravel or pebbles, set in motion by the rapidity of rivers, or currents in the sea. One of those, which had been recently laid open, I examined with attention. I...
134. oldal - ... ring of blew colour, in which there appeareth the yellow figure of a snake; and that beasts which are stung, being given to drink of the water wherein this stone hath bene socked, will therethrough recover.
333. oldal - ... states, partially scattered over the surface of the mountain. These having been swept, by heavy rains at different periods, from the surface into the situations above described, and having remained for a long series of years in those places of rest, exposed to the permeating action of water, have become enveloped in, and cemented by, the calcareous matter which it deposits.

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