Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... north of Scotland as far down as Essex on the east , or as far down as Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton ( at least ) on the west , you will still find these pebbles , but fewer and smaller as you go south . It matters not what the rocks and ...
... north of Scotland as far down as Essex on the east , or as far down as Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton ( at least ) on the west , you will still find these pebbles , but fewer and smaller as you go south . It matters not what the rocks and ...
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... north of Liverpool ? I think your common sense will tell you that these pebbles are not mere concretions ; that is , formed out of the substance of the clay after it was deposited . The least knowledge of mineralogy would prove that ...
... north of Liverpool ? I think your common sense will tell you that these pebbles are not mere concretions ; that is , formed out of the substance of the clay after it was deposited . The least knowledge of mineralogy would prove that ...
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... north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the stones got here ; How they were ...
... north and south poles ; at work , too , on every high mountain range in the world , and therefore a very common natural force ; and suppose that this force would explain all the facts , namely— How the stones got here ; How they were ...
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... North . A very illustrious Scandinavian explorer , visiting Edinburgh , declared , as soon as he saw the sections of boulder - clay exhibited near that city , that this was the very substance which he saw forming in the Spitzbergen ice ...
... North . A very illustrious Scandinavian explorer , visiting Edinburgh , declared , as soon as he saw the sections of boulder - clay exhibited near that city , that this was the very substance which he saw forming in the Spitzbergen ice ...
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... North were once under an icy sea , ought we not to find sea - shells in their sands and clays ? Not abundantly , of course . We can understand that the sea - animals would be too rapidly covered up in mud , and too much disturbed by ...
... North were once under an icy sea , ought we not to find sea - shells in their sands and clays ? Not abundantly , of course . We can understand that the sea - animals would be too rapidly covered up in mud , and too much disturbed by ...
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