 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1836 - 956 páginas
...steam-engines, with the remains of plant« of ancient forms and extinct species, which were swept rom the earth ere the formation of the transition strata...completed. Our instruments of cutlery, the tools of iur mechanics, and the countless machines which we con. truct, by the infinitely varied applications... | |
 | William Buckland - 1836 - 632 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct species, which were pvvept from the earth ere the formation of the transition strata was completed. Our instruments of... | |
 | 1837 - 728 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...formation of the Transition strata was completed." Although the Secondary strata, like the Transition series just mentioned, abounded with creatures referable... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1837 - 906 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...earth ere the formation of the transition strata was com. pleted. Our instruments of cutlery, the tools of our mechanics, and the countless machines which... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct species, which were swept from the eartk ere the formation of the transition strata was completed. Our instruments of cutlery, the tools... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 páginas
...enduring beds of coal, which in these later ages have become to man the sources of light, and heat, and wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp...formation of the transition strata was completed. And thus, from the wreck of forests that waved upon the surface of the primeval lands, and from ferruginous... | |
 | William Buckland - 1841 - 492 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...completed. Our instruments of cutlery, the tools of our mechanies, and the countless machines which we construct, by the infinitely varied applications of... | |
 | William Humble - 1843 - 312 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...from the earth ere the formation of the transition series was completed. Thus, from the wreck of forests that waved upon the surface of the primeval lands,... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...the countless machines which we construct, by the infinitely-varied applications of iron, are derived from ore, for the most part coeval with, or Fuel... | |
 | 458 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food and maintain our forges, and the extraordinary power of our steamengines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...from the earth ere the formation of the transition of strata was completed. Our instruments of cutlery, the tools of our mechanics, and the countless... | |
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... heat, and light, and wealth. My fire now burns with fuel, and my lamp is shining with the light of gas derived from coal, that has been buried for countless ages in the deep and dark recesses of the earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges... 
