| Sir Charles Lyell - 1838 - 582 pages
...distinguished naturalist who accompanied Kotzebue, affirms, that the inhabitants of the Radack archipelago, a group of lagoon islands, in the midst of the Pacific,...searching the roots of trees which are cast up on the beach.* It may perhaps be objected, that a similar mode of transport cannot have happened in the cretaceous... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1839 - 332 pages
...distinguished naturalist who accompanied Kotzebue, affirms, that the inhabitants of the Radack archipelago, a group of lagoon islands, in the midst of the Pacific,...happened in the cretaceous sea, because fossil wood * Geol. Trans. Second Series, vol. iii. p. 232. plate 31. figs. 3. and 11. t Darwin, p. 549. Kotzebue's... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1841 - 486 pages
...a group of lagoon islands, in the midst of * See Chapters X. and XI. Ch. XVII.] WHENCE DERIVED. 395 the Pacific, obtained stones for sharpening their...searching the roots of trees which are cast up on the beach.* It may perhaps be objected, that a similar mode of transport cannot have happened in the cretaceous... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 338 pages
...distinguished naturalist who accompanied Kotzebue, affirms, that the inhabitants of the Radack archipelago, a group of lagoon islands, in the midst of the Pacific,...happened in the cretaceous sea, because fossil wood Cretaceous Coral Reef. is very rare in the chalk. Nevertheless wood is sometimes met with, and in the... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 pages
...accompanied Kotzebue, stating that the inhabitants of the Radack Archipelago, a group of lagoon-islands in the midst of the Pacific, obtained stones for sharpening...instruments by searching the roots of trees which are cast upon the beach. It will be evident that this force of the wind. Hence it is observed that the tide... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1846 - 358 pages
...for sharpening their instruments by searching the roots of trees which are cast up on the beach. f It may perhaps be objected, that a similar mode of...happened in the cretaceous sea, because fossil wood Cretaceous Coral Reef. is very rare in the chalk. Nevertheless wood is sometimes met with, and in the... | |
| Robert Hermann Schomburgk - 1848 - 780 pages
...confirmed by a statement of Chamisso's, who observes that the inhabitants of the Radack Archipelago, a group of lagoon islands in the midst of the Pacific,...for sharpening their instruments by searching the trees which are cast upon the beach. It is therefore probable, that since we have it on record that... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1852 - 578 pages
...who accompanied Kotzebue, affirms, that the inhabitants of the Radack achipelago, a group of Ingoon islands, in the midst of the Pacific, obtained stones...searching the roots of trees which are cast up on the beach.t It may perhaps be objected, that a similar mode of transport cannot have happened in the cretaceous... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 686 pages
...distinguished naturalist who accompanied Kotzebue, affirms, that the inhabitants of the Radack archipelago, a group of lagoon islands in the midst of the Pacific,...searching the roots of trees which are cast up on the beach.* It may perhaps be objected, that a similar mode of transport cannot have happened in the cretaceous... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1855 - 686 pages
...distinguished naturalist who accompanied Kotzebue, afiirms, that the inhabitants of the Radack archipelago, a group of lagoon islands in the midst of the Pacific,...searching the roots of trees which are cast up on the beach.* It may perhaps be objected, that a similar mode of transport cannot have happened in the cretaceous... | |
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