The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volumen 2Edward Mammatt Simpkin and Marshall, 1835 |
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... remains on the land many hours before it subsides , it deposits but a small portion of the silt which it holds in suspension . The Avon is commonly flanked on one or both sides by extensive meadows , whose level surface proves them to ...
... remains on the land many hours before it subsides , it deposits but a small portion of the silt which it holds in suspension . The Avon is commonly flanked on one or both sides by extensive meadows , whose level surface proves them to ...
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... remains in a sufficiently perfect state to fit them for cabinet specimens . The most numerous shells are those of the genus Terebratula . These researches , which have been chiefly confined to Bredon Hill , have as yet produced only the ...
... remains in a sufficiently perfect state to fit them for cabinet specimens . The most numerous shells are those of the genus Terebratula . These researches , which have been chiefly confined to Bredon Hill , have as yet produced only the ...
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... this stratum and its organic remains , will be found in Mr. Mur- chison's excellent little work on the Geology of Cheltenham , just published . geology , the Worcestershire Natural History Society shall prevent future 4 MEMOIR OF THE.
... this stratum and its organic remains , will be found in Mr. Mur- chison's excellent little work on the Geology of Cheltenham , just published . geology , the Worcestershire Natural History Society shall prevent future 4 MEMOIR OF THE.
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... remains as it is in Dorsetshire and Yorkshire , contains , notwithstanding , in some of its beds , considerable abundance and variety . The vast Saurian Reptiles for which Lyme Regis is so famous , though rare , are not wanting in our ...
... remains as it is in Dorsetshire and Yorkshire , contains , notwithstanding , in some of its beds , considerable abundance and variety . The vast Saurian Reptiles for which Lyme Regis is so famous , though rare , are not wanting in our ...
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... remains to give , by way of an appendix , a sketch of what are commonly called diluvial deposits , as far as these occur in our district . The deposits of gravel , sand , and clay , which in most parts of the world lie in irregular ...
... remains to give , by way of an appendix , a sketch of what are commonly called diluvial deposits , as far as these occur in our district . The deposits of gravel , sand , and clay , which in most parts of the world lie in irregular ...
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Página 193 - The flanking parties were quietly extending themselves, out of sight, on each side of the valley, and the residue were stretching themselves, like the links of a chain, across it, when the wild horses gave signs that they scented an enemy; snuffing the air, snorting, and looking about. At length they pranced off slowly toward the river, and disappeared behind a green bank. Here, had the regulations of the chase been observed, they would have been quietly checked and turned back by the advance of...
Página 261 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.
Página 396 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 39 - Such was Zuleika, such around her shone The nameless charms unmark'd by her alone — The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And oh! that eye was in itself a Soul...
Página 192 - This has to be done with extreme care, for the wild horse is the most readily alarmed inhabitant of the prairie, and can scent a hunter at a great distance, if to windward.
Página 193 - Jack-o'-lantern little Frenchman to deal with. Instead of keeping quietly up the right side of the valley, to get above the horses, the moment he saw them move toward the river, he broke out of the...
Página 192 - A beautiful meadow about half a mile wide, enamelled with yellow autumnal flowers, stretched for two or three miles along the foot of the hills, bordered on the opposite side by the river, whose banks were fringed with cotton-wood trees, the bright foliage of which refreshed and delighted the eye, after being wearied by the contemplation of monotonous wastes of brown forest.
Página 65 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 257 - There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore : Not loth to furnish weapons for the bands Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched To Scotland's heaths ; or those that crossed the sea And drew their sounding bows at Azincour, Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.