 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...present state of the science. 1 refer to Pythagoras and Strabo. Says the latter, " it is not becau.u the lands covered by seas were originally at different...land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 pages
...marine shells in the earth at such great elevations and distances from the sea, he remarks : " It is not because the lands covered by seas were originally...land is sometimes raised up, and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pages
...marine shells in the earth at such great elevations and distances from the sea, he remarks : " It is not because the lands covered by seas were originally...land is sometimes raised up, and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into... | |
 | 1837 - 548 pages
...in the present state of the science. 1 refer to Pythagoras and Strabo. Says the latter, " it is not because the lands covered by seas were originally...land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into... | |
 | James Buckman - 1849 - 42 pages
...following translation of a passage from the second book of his Geography : " It is not," says Strabo, " because the lands covered by seas were originally at different altitudes, that waters have risen, or subsided, or receded from some parts and inundated others. But the reason is,... | |
 | British geology - 1850 - 332 pages
...speaking of the mutations of land and seas, says, " It is not because the lands covered by the sea were originally at different altitudes that the waters...and inundated others ; but the reason is, that the land is sometimes raised up, and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is sometimes raised and depressed,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1854 - 544 pages
...because the lands covered by the sea were originally at different altitudes, that the waters have risen, subsided, or receded from some parts and inundated...land is sometimes raised up, and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows, or returns into... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1879 - 636 pages
...because the lands covered by the seas were originally at different altitudes that the waters have arisen or subsided or receded from some parts and inundated...reason is that the same land is sometimes raised up or depressed, so that it either overflows or returns to its own place again. We must therefore ascribe... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...profoundness of which modern geologists are only beginning to appreciate. ' It is not,' he says, ' because the lands covered by seas were originally...land is sometimes raised up and sometimes depressed, and the sea also is simultaneously raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 1420 pages
...profoundness of which modern geologists are only now beginning to appreciate. " It is not," he says (£ c.), " because the lands covered by seas were originally...either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must therefore ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or... | |
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... raised and depressed, so that it either overflows or returns into its own place again. We must, therefore, ascribe the cause to the ground, either to that ground which is under the sea, or to that which becomes flooded by it, but rather to that which... 
