Collected Works of Charles Kingsley: Scientific lectures and essaysMacmillan and Company, 1893 |
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... along the western coasts of England , Scotland , Ireland ? It must have eaten up thousands of acres - whole shires , may be , ere now . Its teeth are strong enough , sea . and it knows neither rest nor pity , 1. ] 43 THE SOIL OF THE FIELD .
... along the western coasts of England , Scotland , Ireland ? It must have eaten up thousands of acres - whole shires , may be , ere now . Its teeth are strong enough , sea . and it knows neither rest nor pity , 1. ] 43 THE SOIL OF THE FIELD .
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... England or in Scotland , have been made by the same means as that of every æstuary . You find over great tracts of East Scotland , Lancashire , Norfolk , etc. , pure loose sand just beneath the surface , which looks as if it was blown ...
... England or in Scotland , have been made by the same means as that of every æstuary . You find over great tracts of East Scotland , Lancashire , Norfolk , etc. , pure loose sand just beneath the surface , which looks as if it was blown ...
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... England and Scotland were probably once covered by a shallow sea , and their soils made as the soil of any tide - flat is being made now ? But you may say , and most reasonably , " The tide- flats are just at the sea - level . The whole ...
... England and Scotland were probably once covered by a shallow sea , and their soils made as the soil of any tide - flat is being made now ? But you may say , and most reasonably , " The tide- flats are just at the sea - level . The whole ...
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... England . It can be proved , as far as common sense can prove anything , that England was , before the age of ice , much warmer than it is now , and grew gradually cooler and cooler , just as , while the age of ice was dying out , it ...
... England . It can be proved , as far as common sense can prove anything , that England was , before the age of ice , much warmer than it is now , and grew gradually cooler and cooler , just as , while the age of ice was dying out , it ...
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... England , Scotland , and Ireland were as Greenland is now ? when mud streams have rushed down from under glaciers on to a cold sea - bottom , when " ice , mast high , came floating by , as green as emerald ? " when Snowdon was sunk for ...
... England , Scotland , and Ireland were as Greenland is now ? when mud streams have rushed down from under glaciers on to a cold sea - bottom , when " ice , mast high , came floating by , as green as emerald ? " when Snowdon was sunk for ...
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