The Edinburgh New Philosophical JournalA. and C. Black, 1861 |
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... according to the best information procurable , in which they met with invaluable assistance from C. Vignoles , Esq . , the chief engineer of the Bilbao and Tu- dela Railway , whose operations had made him well acquainted with the ...
... according to the best information procurable , in which they met with invaluable assistance from C. Vignoles , Esq . , the chief engineer of the Bilbao and Tu- dela Railway , whose operations had made him well acquainted with the ...
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... according to Henderson , t either 1. Directly by the molten lava ; 2. The noxious sulphu- reous or other vapours causing pestilences ; 3. The desertion of the coasts by fish ; or , 4. The devastation of the pasturages by ashes and sand ...
... according to Henderson , t either 1. Directly by the molten lava ; 2. The noxious sulphu- reous or other vapours causing pestilences ; 3. The desertion of the coasts by fish ; or , 4. The devastation of the pasturages by ashes and sand ...
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... According to some writers , the first eruption of Kötlugjá in 894 — the last being the fifteenth — is the first volcanic eruption in Iceland chronicled in Icelandic annals , a circumstance which , if true , ought to give to this volcano ...
... According to some writers , the first eruption of Kötlugjá in 894 — the last being the fifteenth — is the first volcanic eruption in Iceland chronicled in Icelandic annals , a circumstance which , if true , ought to give to this volcano ...
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... According to Olafssen's map , its extent would be 56,000 square miles . . . . Egger's reduces it to 29,838 . " So says the author of " An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland , Green- land , and the Faröe Islands , with ...
... According to Olafssen's map , its extent would be 56,000 square miles . . . . Egger's reduces it to 29,838 . " So says the author of " An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland , Green- land , and the Faröe Islands , with ...
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... according to some accounts , on 18th , to others , on 26th , July ; so that this excursion was made within a few weeks after an eruption . A graphic account of Dr Pálsson's ascent of this jökul will be found in Henderson , vol . i . p ...
... according to some accounts , on 18th , to others , on 26th , July ; so that this excursion was made within a few weeks after an eruption . A graphic account of Dr Pálsson's ascent of this jökul will be found in Henderson , vol . i . p ...
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Page 122 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Page 129 - I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine. It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the " plan of creation," " unity of design," &c., and to think that we give an explanation when we only restate a fact.
Page 155 - It is a truly wonderful fact — the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity — that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other...
Page 128 - Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species" connects together and renders intelligible a vast number of independent and hitherto unexplained facts.
Page 128 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 204 - If we would study with profit the history of our ancestors, we must be constantly on our guard against that delusion which the well known names of families, places, and offices naturally produce, and must never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live.
Page 204 - Many thousands of square miles, which are now rich corn land and meadow, intersected by green hedge-rows, and dotted with villages and pleasant country seats, would appear as moors overgrown with furze, or fens abandoned to wild ducks.
Page 132 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 204 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Page 306 - Flora of the Southern United States ; containing abridged descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, arranged according to the natural system. By AW Chapman, MD The Ferns by Daniel C.