The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, 2. köide,5. number;5. köideCanadian Institute., 1860 |
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... feet and more beneath its ancient level . " With regard to the Aar valley , the glaciers of which are taken as type - forms in relation to this inquiry , our author observes in addition : " Below the lower glacier of the Aar , the ...
... feet and more beneath its ancient level . " With regard to the Aar valley , the glaciers of which are taken as type - forms in relation to this inquiry , our author observes in addition : " Below the lower glacier of the Aar , the ...
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... feet below their present levels , the older moraines being in one instance only 9000 feet above the sea , whereas the present end of the glacier lies at a height of 14,000 feet . Another point often occurs to my mind , -what relation ...
... feet below their present levels , the older moraines being in one instance only 9000 feet above the sea , whereas the present end of the glacier lies at a height of 14,000 feet . Another point often occurs to my mind , -what relation ...
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... feet of the astonished be- holder . This road has been shown us by the great Bacon ; and who can contem plate the prospects which it opens , without almost falling into a trance similar to that in which he allowed his imagination to ...
... feet of the astonished be- holder . This road has been shown us by the great Bacon ; and who can contem plate the prospects which it opens , without almost falling into a trance similar to that in which he allowed his imagination to ...
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... feet , exemplify the Pterodactyles The oldest well - known Pterodactyle is the Dimorphodon macronyx of proper . the lower lias ; but bones of Pterodactyle have been discovered in coeval lias of Wirtemberg . The next in point of age is ...
... feet , exemplify the Pterodactyles The oldest well - known Pterodactyle is the Dimorphodon macronyx of proper . the lower lias ; but bones of Pterodactyle have been discovered in coeval lias of Wirtemberg . The next in point of age is ...
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... feet long , was discovered in the upper chalk of St. Peter's Mount . near Maestricht , in 1780. This species , under the name Mosasaurus , is well known by the descriptions of Cuvier . Allied species have been found in the cretaceous ...
... feet long , was discovered in the upper chalk of St. Peter's Mount . near Maestricht , in 1780. This species , under the name Mosasaurus , is well known by the descriptions of Cuvier . Allied species have been found in the cretaceous ...
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Page 119 - Refrain from: these men* and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought : But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it...
Page 61 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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Page 66 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
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Page 192 - A sight most horrible and disgusting broke upon us as we ascended a sand dune overhanging the little dell in which the pound was built. Within a circular fence 120 feet broad, constructed of the trunks of trees, laced with withes together, and braced by outside supports, lay tossed in every conceivable position over two hundred dead buffalo. From old bulls to calves of three months old, animals of every age were huddled together in all the forced attitudes of violent death.
Page 119 - ... been led to the conclusion that those powers of nature which give rise to races and permanent varieties in animals and plants, are the same as those which in much longer periods produce species, and in a still longer series of ages give rise to differences of generic rank. He appears to me to have succeeded by his investigations and reasonings in throwing a flood of light on many classes of phenomena connected with the affinities, geographical distribution, and geological succession of organic...
Page 370 - 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 193 - ... climb to the top of the fence, and, with the hunters who have followed closely in the rear of the buffalo, spear or shoot with bows and arrows or fire-arms at the bewildered animals, rapidly becoming frantic with rage and terror, within the narrow limits of the pound.