Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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Page 12
... vegetable wealth of the world is no more ex- hausted than its mineral wealth . Exhausted ? Not half of it - I believe not a tenth of it - is yet known . Could I show you the wealth which I have seen in a single Tropic island , not sixty ...
... vegetable wealth of the world is no more ex- hausted than its mineral wealth . Exhausted ? Not half of it - I believe not a tenth of it - is yet known . Could I show you the wealth which I have seen in a single Tropic island , not sixty ...
Page 13
... vegetable forms , the mosses , fungi , lichens ; suppose that he went a little further still , and tried what the microscope would show him in any stagnant pool , whether fresh water or salt , of Desmidiæ , Diatoms , and all those ...
... vegetable forms , the mosses , fungi , lichens ; suppose that he went a little further still , and tried what the microscope would show him in any stagnant pool , whether fresh water or salt , of Desmidiæ , Diatoms , and all those ...
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... so common in the Lancashire hills - a layer of vegetable soil , with grass and brushwood rooted in it . What would you say but : The pond has not been always full . It has at some time or other been 1. ] 39 THE SOIL OF THE FIELD ..
... so common in the Lancashire hills - a layer of vegetable soil , with grass and brushwood rooted in it . What would you say but : The pond has not been always full . It has at some time or other been 1. ] 39 THE SOIL OF THE FIELD ..
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... vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that again another old land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay of the district — what would common sense tell you ? I leave you to discover for yourselves . It ...
... vegetable fibre ; perhaps under that again another old land surface with trees again growing in it ; and under all the main bottom clay of the district — what would common sense tell you ? I leave you to discover for yourselves . It ...
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... missed from the hills around . Again , by the time the rain has sunk through the soil , it is still less pure . It carries with it not only carbonic acid , but acids produced by decaying vegetables - by 42 [ I. TOWN GEOLOGY .
... missed from the hills around . Again , by the time the rain has sunk through the soil , it is still less pure . It carries with it not only carbonic acid , but acids produced by decaying vegetables - by 42 [ I. TOWN GEOLOGY .
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