A History of the Earth, and Animated NatureWilliam Sprent, 1854 - 998 strani |
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... covered with ice and snow , which daily seems to accumulate , and to fill the valleys with increasing desolation . The few rocks and clifs that are bare of snow look at a distance of a dark - brown colour , and quite naked . Upon a ...
... covered with ice and snow , which daily seems to accumulate , and to fill the valleys with increasing desolation . The few rocks and clifs that are bare of snow look at a distance of a dark - brown colour , and quite naked . Upon a ...
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... covered with flakes of floating ice , that spread lik › ex- tensive fields , or that rise out of the water like enormous mountains . These , which are composed of materials as clear and transparent as glass , assume many strange and ...
... covered with flakes of floating ice , that spread lik › ex- tensive fields , or that rise out of the water like enormous mountains . These , which are composed of materials as clear and transparent as glass , assume many strange and ...
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... covered the earth on every side . The air , and all those fluids which were lighter than water , floated upon this also ; and in the same manner encompassed the globe ; so that be- tween the surrounding body of waters and the circum ...
... covered the earth on every side . The air , and all those fluids which were lighter than water , floated upon this also ; and in the same manner encompassed the globe ; so that be- tween the surrounding body of waters and the circum ...
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... covered it for a considerable space of time . " The surface of the earth , " says he , " must have been in the beginning much less solid than it is at present ; and , consequently , the same causes which at this day produce but very ...
... covered it for a considerable space of time . " The surface of the earth , " says he , " must have been in the beginning much less solid than it is at present ; and , consequently , the same causes which at this day produce but very ...
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... covered with trees before their deposition ; and , consequently , that the sea could not have made a very permanent stay . How , then , shall we account for these extraordinary appear- ances in Nature ? A suspension of all assent is ...
... covered with trees before their deposition ; and , consequently , that the sea could not have made a very permanent stay . How , then , shall we account for these extraordinary appear- ances in Nature ? A suspension of all assent is ...
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