| William Phillips - 1816 - 222 pages
...preservation as that their sharpest ridges are retained ; they are found in elevations far above the level of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause : they arc sometimes enclosed in loose sand, sometimes filled or... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pages
...and their finest and tenderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of evey part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only enclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1821 - 512 pages
...sharpest ridges, and tenderest processes. They are found in elevations tar above the level of ever)- part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any presently existing cause. They are not merely enclosed in loose sand, but are often... | |
| Granville Penn - 1822 - 480 pages
..." and their finest and tenderest processes. " They are found in elevations far above the PART in. " level of every part of the ocean, and in places — " to which the sea could not be conveyed by " any existing cause. They are not only en" closed in loose sand, but often incrusted... | |
| 1824 - 884 pages
...parts, their sharpest ridges, and their finest and tenderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted... | |
| 1824 - 890 pages
...their sharpest ridges, and their finest and t ruderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted... | |
| Granville Penn - 1825 - 440 pages
...1 D'AUBUISSON, torn. ip 8. ' Ib. p. 252. CHAT. IV. MINERAL AND MOSAICAL GEOLOOIES. 47 " every where so completely preserved, that even " the smallest...and in " places to which the sea could not now be con" veyed by any existing causes. They are not " only enveloped in loose sands, but are incrusted... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1828 - 872 pages
...most delicate parts, their sharpest ridges, and tenderes! processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sta could not be conveyed by any presently existing cause. They are not merely enclosed in loose sand,... | |
| Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...most delicate parts, their sharpest ridges, and tenderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any previously existing cause. They are not merely enclosed in loose sand, but are often... | |
| Andrew Ure - 1831 - 980 pages
...most delicate parts, their sharpest ridges, and tenderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any presently existing cause. They are not merely enclosed in loose sand, but are often... | |
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