 ... great waves, separated from those beneath by the transparent firmament, and, like them too, impelled in rolling masses by the wind. A mighty advance has taken place in creation ; but its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent...  The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Page 851857Full view - About this book
 | 1857 - 922 lehte
...optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, — of a firmament stretchedout overthe earth, that separates the waters above from the waters...time upon the seer, for the evening and the morning hare completed the second day. "Yet again the light rises under a canopy of cloud ; but the scene has... | |
 | 1857 - 992 lehte
...its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, — of a firmament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...The white surf breaks, at the distant horizon, on an insulated reef, formed mayhap by the Silurian or Old Red coral zoophytes ages before, during the bygone... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 540 lehte
...impelled in rolling masses by the wind. A mighty advance has taken place in creation ; but its msost conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent...The white surf breaks, at the distant horizon, on an insulated reef, formed mayhap by the Silurian or Old Red coral zoophytes ages before, during the bygone... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 524 lehte
...its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, — of a fivmanent stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...The white surf breaks, at the distant horizon, on an insulated reef, formed mayhap by the Silurian or Old Red coral zoophytes ages before, during the bygone... | |
 | 1857 - 802 lehte
...its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, — of a fi, mament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...The white surf breaks, at the distant horizon, on an insulated reef, formed mayhap by the Silurian or Old Red coral zoophytes ages before, during the bygone... | |
 | 1857 - 526 lehte
...but its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, of a firmament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...light rises under a canopy of cloud ; but the scene was changed, and there is no longer an unbroken expanse of sea. The white surf breaks, at the distant... | |
 | 1857 - 992 lehte
...its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, — of a firmament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...below. But darkness descends for the third time upon tho seer, for the evening and the morning have completed the second day. "Yet again the light rises... | |
 | 1857 - 784 lehte
...its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, — df a firmament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters above from the waters beloiv But darkness descends for the third time upon the seer,, for the evening and the morning have... | |
 | 1858 - 540 lehte
...but its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere — of a firmament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...The white surf breaks, at the distant horizon, on an insulated reef, formed, mayhap, by the Silurian or Old Red coral zoophytes ages before, during the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 lehte
...but its most conspicuous optical sign is the existence of a transparent atmosphere, of a firmament stretched out over the earth, that separates the waters...evening and the morning have completed the second day." 6. The " third day" is supposed to have dawned upon that early part of the " Secondary period" when... | |
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