The Cruise of the Betsey; Or, A Summer Holiday in the HebridesW.P. Nimmo, 1869 - 486 pages |
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... rock- perched castle ; - " Merrily down we drop Below the church , below the tower , Below the lighthouse top ; " and , as the evening fell , we were ploughing the outer reaches of the Frith , with the ridgy table - land of Ayrshire ...
... rock- perched castle ; - " Merrily down we drop Below the church , below the tower , Below the lighthouse top ; " and , as the evening fell , we were ploughing the outer reaches of the Frith , with the ridgy table - land of Ayrshire ...
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... rock , which they received , when torn from the mass below , myriads of ages before . In the incalculably remote period in which the conglomerate base of the Old Red Sandstone was formed , the clay - slate of this dis- trict had been ...
... rock , which they received , when torn from the mass below , myriads of ages before . In the incalculably remote period in which the conglomerate base of the Old Red Sandstone was formed , the clay - slate of this dis- trict had been ...
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... rock occurs more abundantly in the embedded pebbles of this ancient conglomerate than rocks of the trap family . We find in it trap - porphyries , greenstones , clinkstones , basalts , and amygdaloids , largely mingled with fragments of ...
... rock occurs more abundantly in the embedded pebbles of this ancient conglomerate than rocks of the trap family . We find in it trap - porphyries , greenstones , clinkstones , basalts , and amygdaloids , largely mingled with fragments of ...
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... rock which he had brought from the shore , charged with Liasic fossils ; and a note he had written , to say that the deposit to which it belonged occurred in the trap immediately above the vil- lage - mill ; and further , to call my ...
... rock which he had brought from the shore , charged with Liasic fossils ; and a note he had written , to say that the deposit to which it belonged occurred in the trap immediately above the vil- lage - mill ; and further , to call my ...
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... rock I have yet seen in the north of Scotland . I failed to detect in it aught organic . We weighed anchor about two o'clock , and beat gallantly out the Sound , in the face of an intermittent baffling wind The scenery here At one tack ...
... rock I have yet seen in the north of Scotland . I failed to detect in it aught organic . We weighed anchor about two o'clock , and beat gallantly out the Sound , in the face of an intermittent baffling wind The scenery here At one tack ...
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Cruise of the Betsey: A Summer Holiday in the Hebrides. Seventh Edition Hugh Miller,William S. Symonds Aucun aperçu disponible - 2017 |
The Cruise of the Betsey; Or, a Summer Holiday in the Hebrides Hugh Miller Aucun aperçu disponible - 2019 |
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amid Ammonites ancient animal Banffshire beach bearing Belemnite Betsey bones boulder boulder-clay broken Caithness character clay cliffs coast Coccosteus colour conglomerate Cromarty curious dark deposit detached Dipterus edges Eigg exhibit existing fish flat formation fossils fragments Free Church Frith geological geologist gneiss gray green ground height hills hollow Holoptychius hundred feet ichthyolites inches island Isle Kirkwall land least length Lias Liasic limestone loch Lower Old Red mass miles minister Moray morning nearly neighbourhood night nodule northern numerous occur Old Red Sandstone Oolite Orkney Ornsay Osteolepis Paleozoic passed patches peculiar plates portion Portree precipices present quarry racter rain rampart resembling rising rock Rosemarkie sand scales scarce Scotland Scuir seems seen shale shells shore side Skye slopes Small Isles species specimens stone strata Strathpeffer stratum stream surface thick thickly Thurso tide tion upper valley vessel wall
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Page 213 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 356 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 210 - Europe, in which there was any thing new or strange to be seen; nay\ to such a degree was my curiosity raised, that having read the controversies of some great men concerning the antiquities of Egypt, I made a voyage to Grand Cairo, on purpose to take the measure of a pyramid...