Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, 1. köideJames Samuelson, William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons, 1864 |
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... feet , in the Trias , or New Red Sandstone formation , a deposit of rock salt , which , in August last , had been penetrated to the depth of nearly one hundred feet , without its lowest limit having been reached ; and the brine , which ...
... feet , in the Trias , or New Red Sandstone formation , a deposit of rock salt , which , in August last , had been penetrated to the depth of nearly one hundred feet , without its lowest limit having been reached ; and the brine , which ...
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... feet have never left the solid ground . On these subjects our great atmospheric explorer , Mr. Glaisher , has accumulated a fund of trustworthy information . He has shown that , with an increased altitude , we have not always ...
... feet have never left the solid ground . On these subjects our great atmospheric explorer , Mr. Glaisher , has accumulated a fund of trustworthy information . He has shown that , with an increased altitude , we have not always ...
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... KIRKCUDBRIGHT Berwick BERWICK ROXBURGH ND NOR 8 Shields Sunderland of The darker portions are the Coal - Fields . The lightly shaded portions show where coal exists to a depth of 5000 feet wonder more recent formations .
... KIRKCUDBRIGHT Berwick BERWICK ROXBURGH ND NOR 8 Shields Sunderland of The darker portions are the Coal - Fields . The lightly shaded portions show where coal exists to a depth of 5000 feet wonder more recent formations .
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... feet , amounts to 25,300 millions of tons . † The quantity raised in 1861 , was 11,081,000 tons from 424 col- lieries . In this is included the double coal - trough of the Lothians -the resources of which were calculated with much ...
... feet , amounts to 25,300 millions of tons . † The quantity raised in 1861 , was 11,081,000 tons from 424 col- lieries . In this is included the double coal - trough of the Lothians -the resources of which were calculated with much ...
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... feet , which would have to be passed through before reaching the first seam . shall hereafter endeavour to show that such a depth is probably beyond the reach of mining enterprise , at least with our present mechanical appliances . I ...
... feet , which would have to be passed through before reaching the first seam . shall hereafter endeavour to show that such a depth is probably beyond the reach of mining enterprise , at least with our present mechanical appliances . I ...
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Page 689 - This seems to have been the origin of some of the round grains met with in meteorites ; for they occasionally still contain a considerable amount of glass, and the crystals which have been formed in it are arranged in groups, radiating from one or more points on the external surface, in such a manner as to indicate that they were developed after the fragments had acquired their present spheroidal shape (Aussun, &c.).
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Page 83 - ... a little particle of apparently homogeneous jelly changing itself into a greater variety of forms than the fabled Proteus, laying hold of its food without members, swallowing it without a mouth, digesting it without a stomach, appropriating its nutritious material without absorbent vessels or a circulating system, moving from place to place without muscles, feeling (if it has any power to do so) without nerves, multiplying itself without eggs ; and not only this, but in many instances forming...