Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 7. köide,8. osaThe Society, 1865 |
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Beche belong Berceau blue marl beds Bolitho carboniferous carboniferous period Carne Cemetery Hill Charles William Peach chronological Cliff Boulders coarse sandstone containing Cornish Corresponding Member culm culmiferous beds Dartmoor Granites deposits Devon and Cornwall Devonian Devonshire District which surrounds elevation elvans Eocene Exeter existence feet felspar fish formation formed fossils fragments Geol geologist granite of Dartmoor granite pebbles granite veins greensand Haldon latter light-coloured limestone limestone of Pont lode Louis Lower Old Red Mentone mica Museum North Tawton Notice nummulitic nummulitic bed nummulitic limestone occur old red sandstone opinion pal¿ontological Penzance Phyllolepis Pleurodictyum Pont St porphyritic quartz R. I. Murchison R. Q. Couch Raised Beaches red conglomerate Red Rocks Richard Q ridge Samuel Higgs schorl Sir Henry Sir R. I. Murchison slates Society of Cornwall South Devon specimens strata supposed surrounds Mentone Torbay upper division Upper Old Red whilst William Pengelly
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Page 2 - Every thing, in short, bore the stamp of former ages, as if the world had suddenly rolled back a few centuries. Nor was this to be wondered at. Had not the Island of the Seven Cities been for several hundred years cut off from all communication with the rest of the world, and was it not natural that the inhabitants should retain many of the modes and customs brought here by their ancestors ? One thing certainly they had conserved; the old-fashioned Spanish gravity and stateliness.