A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos, of Earthquakes, and of Thermal Springs: With Remarks on the Causes of These Phænomena, the Character of Their Respective Products, and Their Influence on the Past and Present Condition of the Globe |
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... least may be of use to future travellers ; not merely by putting before them what is already ascertained , but likewise by directing their attention to those points which still require investigation . I venture therefore to offer these ...
... least may be of use to future travellers ; not merely by putting before them what is already ascertained , but likewise by directing their attention to those points which still require investigation . I venture therefore to offer these ...
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... least in accordance with the Geological opinions now in vogue , thus labouring , so far as in me lies , to correct that one - sidedness of mental vision which is apt to be engendered , by contemplating exclusively.one class of ...
... least in accordance with the Geological opinions now in vogue , thus labouring , so far as in me lies , to correct that one - sidedness of mental vision which is apt to be engendered , by contemplating exclusively.one class of ...
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... alluded to , and the discussions that followed in their train , have at * Kidd's Geological Essay , Oxford , 1815 . B least so far narrowed the field of controversy , as DESCRIPTIVE PORTION CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
... alluded to , and the discussions that followed in their train , have at * Kidd's Geological Essay , Oxford , 1815 . B least so far narrowed the field of controversy , as DESCRIPTIVE PORTION CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
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... least so far narrowed the field of controversy , as that the fixity of the laws of nature through all time , as over all space , is regarded as an axiom in all systems of cosmogony , and that the only question upon which any further ...
... least so far narrowed the field of controversy , as that the fixity of the laws of nature through all time , as over all space , is regarded as an axiom in all systems of cosmogony , and that the only question upon which any further ...
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... least stood out for the principle of the unvarying operation of the laws of nature so far as regarded those igneous operations which I had made my principal study . Accordingly the professed object of my Treatise was stated to be that ...
... least stood out for the principle of the unvarying operation of the laws of nature so far as regarded those igneous operations which I had made my principal study . Accordingly the professed object of my Treatise was stated to be that ...
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alluded ancient appear augite Auvergne basalt beds Buch calcareous called Cantal carbonic acid cavity cellular centre chain character clinkstone colour compact composed cones conglomerate conical consisting constitutes containing crater crystals deposit district Ditto dykes earth earthquakes Eifel ejected elevation eruption Etna existence feet felspar felspathic fissures formation former fragments geological geologist glassy felspar granite height hills hornblende Hungary igneous imbedded island lake latter lava leucite limestone mass midst miles mineral modern Mont Dor Mount Vultur mountain neighbourhood noticed observed obsidian occur olivine origin period phænomena pitchstone porphyry portion present probably pumice Puy de Dôme quartz referred remarkable rise Rocca Monfina sandstone scoriæ scoriform seems seen side silica soda Solfatara species spot springs stone strata stream of lava structure substance sulphur summit supposed surface tertiary thermal tion trachyte trass tuff valley vapours Vesuvius volcanic action volcanic operations volcanic products volcanic rocks whilst
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Page 330 - Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
Page 330 - Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence. As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence ! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou earnest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
Page 330 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Page 162 - At specus, et Caci detecta apparuit ingens Regia, et umbrosae penitus patuere cavernae : Non secus, ac si qua penitus vi terra dehiscens Infernas reseret sedes, et regna recludat Pallida, dis invisa ; superque immane barathrum 245 Cernatur, trepidentque immisso lumine Manes.
Page 331 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 331 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven : and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 389 - ... feet in a perfectly regular manner, and as it were pushed up, by a force beneath ; which suddenly exploded with a dull noise, and scattered about a volume of black mud in every direction. After an interval of two or three, or sometimes four or five seconds, the hemispherical body of mud or earth rose and exploded again. In the same manner this volcanic ebullition goes on without interruption, throwing up a globular body of mud, and dispersing it with violence through the neighbouring plain.
Page 402 - After walking some distance over the sunken plain, which in several places sounded hollow under our feet, we at length came to the edge of the great crater, where a spectacle, sublime and even appalling, presented itself before us —
Page 257 - Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has, probably, been a burial place, there is a draw-well, where there are several strata of lavas, with earth to a considerable thickness over the surface of each stratum. Recupero has made use of this as an argument to prove the great antiquity of the mountain. For if it require two thousand years or upward, to form but a scanty soil on the surface of a lava...
Page 338 - And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar : and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.