Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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Page 39
... carrying the former downward with it toward the Follow the nearest roadside drain where it runs into a pond , and see how it drops the pebbles the moment it enters the pond , and then the sand in a fan - shaped heap at the nearest end ...
... carrying the former downward with it toward the Follow the nearest roadside drain where it runs into a pond , and see how it drops the pebbles the moment it enters the pond , and then the sand in a fan - shaped heap at the nearest end ...
Page 41
... carried down to the sea or not . If you will look into any quarry you will see that however compact the rock may be a few feet below the surface , it becomes , in almost every case , rotten and broken up as it nears the upper soil ...
... carried down to the sea or not . If you will look into any quarry you will see that however compact the rock may be a few feet below the surface , it becomes , in almost every case , rotten and broken up as it nears the upper soil ...
Page 42
... carrying that away in water , which , however clear , is still hard . Hard water is usually water which has invisible ... carried down to the sea every year by a single lime- stone or chalk brook . You can calculate it , if you like , by ...
... carrying that away in water , which , however clear , is still hard . Hard water is usually water which has invisible ... carried down to the sea every year by a single lime- stone or chalk brook . You can calculate it , if you like , by ...
Page 51
... carry boulders , some of them weighing many tons , for many miles . Now Scripture says nothing of any such violent currents ; and we have no right to put currents , or any other imagined facts , into Scripture out of our own heads , and ...
... carry boulders , some of them weighing many tons , for many miles . Now Scripture says nothing of any such violent currents ; and we have no right to put currents , or any other imagined facts , into Scripture out of our own heads , and ...
Page 52
... carry these boulder stones onward , would have carried the mud for many miles farther still ; and we should find the boulders , not in clay , but lying loose together , pro- bably on a hard rock bottom , scoured clean by the current ...
... carry these boulder stones onward , would have carried the mud for many miles farther still ; and we should find the boulders , not in clay , but lying loose together , pro- bably on a hard rock bottom , scoured clean by the current ...
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