Key to the Geology of the Globe: An Essay, Designed to Show that the Present Geographical, Hydrographical, and Geological Structures, Observed on the Earth's Crust, Were the Result of Forces Acting According to Fixed, Demonstrable Laws, Analogous to Those Governing the Development of Organic BodiesStevenson & Owen, 1857 - 256 páginas |
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Key to the Geology of the Globe: An Essay, Designed to Show That the Present ... Richard Owen Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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Página 31 - A zone is a portion of the surface of a sphere, included between two parallel planes which form its bases.
Página 225 - As over the deep it strays, Still seems to seek, in bay and creek, Its companion of other days. " And alike do we, on life's stormy sea, As we roam from shore to shore, Thus tempest-tossed, seek the loved, the lost, But find them on earth no more...
Página 208 - Upon the whole, every circumstance concurs in proving that mankind are not composed of species essentially different from each other; that, on the contrary, there was originally but one species...
Página 224 - I have taken the liberty to change slightly: — *The nautilus and the ammonite Were launched in storm and strife; Each sent to float, in its tiny boat, On the wide, wild sea of life.
Página 225 - They sailed all day through creek and bay, And traversed the ocean deep; And at night they sank on a coral bank, In its fairy bowers to sleep. And the monsters vast of ages past They beheld in their ocean caves; They saw them ride in their power and pride, And sink in their deep-sea graves.
Página 47 - When these beds were upheaved, "the edges of the formations appear to have been brought to the surface along concentric lines, which are parts of great circles intersecting each other in such a manner as to form equilateral spherical triangles on the earth's surface, each angle or intersection being equidistant from our present north pole.
Página 105 - I raised from the natural seed of one umbel of a highly-manured red cowslip, a primrose, a cowslip, oxlips of the usual and other colours, a black polyanthus, a hose-in-hose cowslip, and a natural primrose bearing its flower on a polyanthus stalk. From the seed of that very hose-in-hose cowslip I have since raised a hose-in-hose primrose. I therefore consider all these to be only local varieties depending upon soil and situation...
Página 207 - Even among ourselves, the inhabitants of country places are less handsome than the inhabitants of towns ; and we have often remarked, that in one village, where poverty and distress were less prevalent than in another village of the vicinity, the people of the former were, at the same time, in person more shapely, and in visage less deformed. The air and the soil have also great influence, not only on the form of men, but on that of animals, and of vegetables. Let us, after examining the peasants...
Página 207 - The real natives of the country are of a very brown olive color, well made and active ; and though they have little hair, even upon their eyebrows, yet upon their head their hair is long and very black. In surveying the different appearances which the human form assumes in the different regions of the earth, the most striking circumstance is that of color. This circumstance has been attributed to various causes; but experience justifies us in affirming, that of this the principal cause is the heat...
Página 225 - ... all day through creek and bay, And traversed the ocean deep ; And at night they sank on a coral bank, In its fairy bowers to sleep. ' And the monsters vast of ages past, They beheld in their ocean caves ; And saw them ride in their power and pride, And sink in their billowy graves.