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amid Ammonites ancient animal appearance Arthur Seat beds Belemnite beneath bottom boulder-clay boulders Brora Caithness Carboniferous caves Chalk character clay Coal Measures colour cone contains creature Cromarty curious cuttle-fish deposits depth earth elevation existing extinct feet Firth fish flora forests formation fossil fragments furnished geological geologist glacier gneiss granitic gravel grooved Highlands hills hollow hundred inches instance island lake land least Lias lignite Loch lower mark masses miles minute molluscs moraine Moray Firth mosses neighbourhood northern occupied occur ocean old coast line Old Red Sandstone Oolite organisms Palaeozoic peculiar period Pleistocene polished portion precipices present quarry remains reptile resemble rising river rocks Roderick Murchison sand scarce scenery Scotland Scottish seems seen shells shores side Silurian Sir Roderick species specimens stone strata stratum stream surface Tertiary thick thousand tide tion tract trap trees Triassic upper valley vast vegetable waves
Popular passages
Page 96 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Page 149 - Now, upon SYRIA'S land of roses Softly the light of eve reposes, And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted LEBANON ; Whose head in wintry grandeur towers, And whitens with eternal sleet, While summer, in a vale of flowers, Is sleeping rosy at his feet.
Page 230 - Gray birch and aspen wept beneath; Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock; And higher yet, the pine-tree hung His shattered trunk, and frequent flung, Where seemed the cliffs to meet on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky.
Page 291 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 214 - This is a false alarm. The writings of Moses do not fix the antiquity of the globe. If they fix anything at all, it is only the antiquity of the species.
Page 187 - His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Page 232 - On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave...
Page 109 - Then, awed to silence, they trode the strand Where furnaced pillars in order stand, All framed of the liquid burning levin, And bent like the bow that spans the heaven, Or upright ranged in horrid array, With purfle of green o'er the darksome gray.
Page 76 - And here awhile the Muse, High hovering o'er the broad cerulean scene. Sees Caledonia, in romantic view : Her airy mountains, from the waving main, Invested with a keen diffusive sky, Breathing the soul acute ; her forests huge...
Page 186 - Who can discover the face of his garment ? Or who can come to him with his double bridle ? Who can open the doors of his face ? His teeth are terrible round about.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sketch-book of Popular Geology Hugh Miller's works Volume 9 of Works, Hugh Miller |
| Author | Hugh Miller |
| Edition | 5 |
| Publisher | William P. Nimmo, 1872 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 26, 2008 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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