The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1827 - English literature |
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Page 462
... basalts of different ages . The current proceeding from Tartaret is thirteen miles in length , and is in some places divided into regu- lar columnar prisms , like the more ancient ranges of basalt ex- posed at higher elevations on the ...
... basalts of different ages . The current proceeding from Tartaret is thirteen miles in length , and is in some places divided into regu- lar columnar prisms , like the more ancient ranges of basalt ex- posed at higher elevations on the ...
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... basalt into the sub- jacent strata , both of fresh - water limestone and volcanic breccia , as also into the granite . Besides these rocks of older date , there occur in this part of France a multitude of volcanic cones like those in ...
... basalt into the sub- jacent strata , both of fresh - water limestone and volcanic breccia , as also into the granite . Besides these rocks of older date , there occur in this part of France a multitude of volcanic cones like those in ...
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... basalt one hundred and sixty feet in height . Although the country is mountainous , and the descent of the river rapid , and the columns of basalt loose and easily de- tached , yet the immense portions now removed have as completely ...
... basalt one hundred and sixty feet in height . Although the country is mountainous , and the descent of the river rapid , and the columns of basalt loose and easily de- tached , yet the immense portions now removed have as completely ...
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No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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