Readings in Natural Philosophy: Or, A Popular Display of the Wonders of Nature ...Whittaker, Treacher & Company, 1830 - 700페이지 |
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... stratum of green sand and oyster - shells is about two feet thick . Immediately above this layer of green sand and shells is a bed of a bluish sort of clay , very hard , brittle , and rugged , called a pinny clay , and is near three ...
... stratum of green sand and oyster - shells is about two feet thick . Immediately above this layer of green sand and shells is a bed of a bluish sort of clay , very hard , brittle , and rugged , called a pinny clay , and is near three ...
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... of those I have observed in Kent . About half a mile from Reculver , towards Herm , there appears in the cliff a stratum of shells in 154 ON FOSSIL SHELLS AND FISHES . Observations on the fossils of culver Cliff By Mr Stephen Gray.
... of those I have observed in Kent . About half a mile from Reculver , towards Herm , there appears in the cliff a stratum of shells in 154 ON FOSSIL SHELLS AND FISHES . Observations on the fossils of culver Cliff By Mr Stephen Gray.
155 페이지
... stratum of shells in a greenish sand : they seem to be firm , and some of them are entire ; but when you attempt to take them from their beds , they crumble to powder between your fingers : the shells are of the white conchites . But ...
... stratum of shells in a greenish sand : they seem to be firm , and some of them are entire ; but when you attempt to take them from their beds , they crumble to powder between your fingers : the shells are of the white conchites . But ...
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... stratum of clay , which is succeeded by another of stone , each about a foot thick ; in this stratum of stone are imbedded divers shells ( though but thinly ) as well of the turbinate as bivalve kind , and also pieces of wood and sticks ...
... stratum of clay , which is succeeded by another of stone , each about a foot thick ; in this stratum of stone are imbedded divers shells ( though but thinly ) as well of the turbinate as bivalve kind , and also pieces of wood and sticks ...
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... stratum of sand , gravel , & c . which may serve to demonstrate , that their matrix is not a clay - bed on the top of the cliff ; as also , that they could not be scattered there by crows , gulls , and other sea - fowl , as well as that ...
... stratum of sand , gravel , & c . which may serve to demonstrate , that their matrix is not a clay - bed on the top of the cliff ; as also , that they could not be scattered there by crows , gulls , and other sea - fowl , as well as that ...
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155 페이지 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
255 페이지 - One particular only (though it may appear trifling) I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat, and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask ; but catching the cat (which he knew by feeling) he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down, said, so puss ! I shall know you another time.
255 페이지 - ... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...
491 페이지 - ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again.
33 페이지 - Prisme at the window, so that the light might pass through a small hole, made in it for the purpose, and fall on the other board, which I placed at about 12...
555 페이지 - By meditating on the results of all these experiments, we are naturally brought to that great question which has so often been the subject of speculation among philosophers, namely, What is heat — is there any such thing as an igneous fluid ? Is there anything that...
491 페이지 - It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations; and the nice sensibility which these parts appeared to possess seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight, which as yet it was destitute of. I afterwards put in...
357 페이지 - AS frequent mention is made in public papers from Europe of the success of the Philadelphia experiment for drawing the electric fire from clouds by means of pointed rods of iron erected on high buildings...
256 페이지 - Epsom Downs, and observing a large prospect, he was exceedingly delighted with it, and called it a new kind of seeing.
555 페이지 - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish 'without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of...