Transactions and Proceedings, Том 3Society at the Perthshire Natural History Museum., 1903 |
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Сторінка 55 - The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist; A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Сторінка 111 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Сторінка 102 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs.
Сторінка 10 - Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The red-breast whistles from a garden croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Сторінка 46 - The igneous rocks on the south side of Loch Tay are chiefly composed of compact felspar porphyry in the most striking varieties, and of greenstone. Both rocks, porphyry and greenstone, are closely connected at Tomnadashan and Ardtalanaig at about equal distances from the east and west end of Loch Tay.
Сторінка 127 - Ocean migration, another wave of population occupied the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores, and so passed to the Antilles, Central America, and probably by the Cape Verdes, or, guided by the more southern equatorial current, to Brazil. Latest of all, Behring Straits and the North Pacific Islands may have become the highway for a northern migration by which certain striking diversities of nations of the northern continent, including the conquerors of the Mexican plateau, are most easily accounted...
Сторінка 126 - World to have spread through the islands of the Pacific, and to have reached the South American continent long before an excess of Asiatic population had diffused itself into its own inhospitable northern steppes. By an Atlantic oceanic migration, another wave of population occupied the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores, and so passed to the Antilles, Central America, and probably by the Cape Verdes, or, guided by the more southern equatorial current, to Brazil.
Сторінка 47 - ... of Loch Tay, opposite Ben Lawers, at the Tomnadashan mines, * # * the greenstone, while remaining unchanged in position and character on the east and west sides, * * * has near its middle not only been deranged by * * * a powerful vein of porphyry, but has also been often altered into a substance exhibiting the mixed characters of greenstone and porphyry, with transitions from one to the other.
Сторінка 252 - A revisal of previous knowledge ; the reading of maps (eg of contour lines) and their construction ; elementary exercises in surveying and mapping; a thorough regional survey, by means of excursions, of the physical geography, flora, fauna, and historical antiquities of the district in nrhich the school is situated ; a study of commercial geography, based largely upon the shipping and trade news of the daily papers.
Сторінка 20 - Act, 1880, shall extend to the making of an order prohibiting, for special reasons mentioned in the application, the taking or killing of particular kinds of wild birds during the whole or any part of that period of the year to which the protection of wild birds under that Act does not extend, or the taking or killing of all wild birds in particular places during the whole or any part of that period.