Essay on the Theory of the EarthKirk & Mercein, 1818 - 431 стор. |
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abounds Adria alluvial ammonites ancient animals appears ascertained basin beds Belemnites belong breccia calcarious chalk clay cloven hoofs coast connexion contains covered Cuvier deposited dikes discovered earth Egypt elephant entire epoch exist extraneous fossils Fauj feet fish flint fossil fossil bones fossil remains fragments fresh water formation genera genus geologists geology globe gneiss grinders gypsum Herodotus hills hippopotamus hitherto horns Hudson hundred imbedded inches inhabitants islands Isle of Wight Knorr known lake land limestone lower marl marsches masses mastodon Memoir miles mineral mountains naturalists nature nearly New-York observations occur ocean organic remains oviparous Paris petrifactions petrified Porto Viro present primitive produced pyrites quadrupeds quartz race region relicks remarkable resembling respecting rhinoceros ridge river rocks sand sandstone Schlottheim shore side siliceous skeleton slate soil species specimens stone strata stratum surface tained teeth thousand tion tusks upper varieties
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Сторінка 99 - ... fit them for devouring prey; the claws must be constructed for seizing and tearing it to pieces ; the teeth for cutting and dividing its flesh; the entire system of the limbs, or organs of motion, for pursuing and overtaking it; and the organs of sense, for discovering it at a distance. Nature also must have endowed the brain of the animal with instincts sufficient for concealing itself, and for laying plans to catch its necessary victims.
Сторінка 103 - Thus, commencing our investigation by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of organic structure may, as it were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone had belonged.
Сторінка 31 - ... exhibit nothing but horizontal strata, composed of various substances, and containing almost all of them innumerable marine productions. Similar strata, with the same kind of productions, compose the hills even to a great height. Sometimes the shells are so numerous as to constitute the entire body of the stratum. They are almost everywhere in such a perfect state of preservation, that even the smallest of them retain their most delicate parts, their sharpest ridges, and tenderest processes.
Сторінка 99 - Every organized individual forms an entire system of its own, all the parts of which mutually correspond, and concur to produce a certain definite purpose, by reciprocal reaction, or by combining towards the same end.
Сторінка 255 - ... reddish-brown wool, which grew among the roots of the long hair. These afford an undeniable proof that this animal had belonged to a race of elephants inhabiting a cold region, with which we are now unacquainted, and by no means fitted to dwell in the torrid zone. It is also evident that this enormous animal must have been frozen up by the ice at the moment of its death.
Сторінка 31 - A nice and scrupulous comparison of their forms, of their contexture, and frequently even of their composition, cannot detect the slightest difference between these shells and the shells which still inhabit the sea. They have therefore once lived in the sea, and been deposited by it: the sea consequently must have rested in the places where the deposition has taken place.
Сторінка 102 - ... a claw, a shoulder-blade, a condyle, a leg or arm bone, or any other bone separately considered, enables us to discover the description of teeth to which they have belonged; and so also reciprocally we may determine the forms of the other bones from the teeth. Thus commencing our investigations by a careful survey of any one bone by itself, a person who is sufficiently master of the laws of organic structure may, as it were, reconstruct the whole animal to which that bone...
Сторінка 214 - ... visit it and deposit the seeds of shrubs and trees ; every high tide, and still more every gale, adds something to the bank ; the form of an island is gradually assumed ; and last of all comes man to take possession.
Сторінка 58 - Whiston fancied that the earth was created from the atmosphere of one comet, and that it was deluged by the tail of another. The heat which remained from its first origin, in his opinion, excited the whole antediluvian population, men and animals, to sin, for which they were all drowned in the deluge, excepting the fish, whose passions were apparently less violent.
Сторінка 59 - Demaillet, the globe was conceived to have been covered with water for many thousand years. He supposed that this water had gradually retired; that all the terrestrial animals were originally inhabitants of the sea; that man himself began his career as a...