Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... bed , or two books on a table -any two or more lifeless things , in fact , lie one on the other , then the lower one was most probably put there first , and the upper one laid down on the lower . Does that seem to you a truism ? Do I ...
... bed , or two books on a table -any two or more lifeless things , in fact , lie one on the other , then the lower one was most probably put there first , and the upper one laid down on the lower . Does that seem to you a truism ? Do I ...
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... beds of coal , would you not say - These coal - beds must have been here before the sandstones ? And if you found in those coal - beds dead leaves and stems of plants , would you not say - Those plants must 36 [ L TOWN GEOLOGY .
... beds of coal , would you not say - These coal - beds must have been here before the sandstones ? And if you found in those coal - beds dead leaves and stems of plants , would you not say - Those plants must 36 [ L TOWN GEOLOGY .
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... bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ...
... bed of earth with shells and bones ; under that a bed of peat ; under that one of blue silt ; under that a buried forest , with the trees upright and rooted ; under that another layer of blue silt full of roots and vegetable fibre ...
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... , as far as I am aware , no such pebbles there . The gravels round you will be made up entirely of rolled chalk flints , and bits of beds immediately above or below the chalk . The blocks of THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET.
... , as far as I am aware , no such pebbles there . The gravels round you will be made up entirely of rolled chalk flints , and bits of beds immediately above or below the chalk . The blocks of THE PEBBLES IN THE STREET.
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... beds above the chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles about your town , you inquire , like a sensible person who wishes to under- stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit ...
... beds above the chalk . Now if , seeing such pebbles about your town , you inquire , like a sensible person who wishes to under- stand something of the spot on which he lives , whence they come , you will be shown either a gravel - pit ...
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