And tho' it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read them, and to raise a Chronology out of them, and to state the intervalls of the times wherein such, or such catastrophies and mutations have happened ; yet 'tis not impossible... Principles of geology - Page 45by sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835Full view - About this book
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 pages
...However trivial a thing,' he says, ' a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...to read them (the records of nature) and to raise a chronoloijy out of them, and to state the intervals of the time wherein such or * See Mr. Conybeare's... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 pages
...delivered lectures on various subjecU, relating to fossil remains and the c fleets of earthquakes. than coins or medals, since the best of those may...manuscripts, and inscriptions, as all the learned are now sullioifiuly satisfied has often been actually practised," &c. ; " and though it must be granted that... | |
| F. G. S. - 1858 - 116 pages
...However trivial a thing," he says, "a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...those may be counterfeited or made by art and design." " And, though it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read these records of nature and to... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1872 - 714 pages
...However trivial a thing,' he says, ' a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...now sufficiently satisfied has often been actually * For an able analysis of the -views on the Progress of Geological Science, of Leibnitz, in his Protogrea,... | |
| Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 514 pages
...that can be fetched out of coins or medals, or any other way yet known, since the best of those ways may be counterfeited or made by art and design, as...sufficiently satisfied, has often been actually practised ; but those characters [fossil shells] are not to be counterfeited by all the craft in the world, nor... | |
| Archibald Geikie - 1905 - 536 pages
...what they appear, by any one that will impartially examine the true appearances of them : And tho' it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them and to raise a chronology out of them, and to state the intervalls of the times, wherein such or such... | |
| Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 326 pages
..."However trivial a thing," he says, "a rotten shell may appear to some, yet these monuments of Nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or...now sufficiently satisfied has often been actually practiced, and tho it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them (the records of Nature)... | |
| Arthur Morley Davies - 1920 - 440 pages
...wrote, " yet these monuments of nature are more certain tokens of antiquity than coins or medals . . . and though it must be granted that it is very difficult to read them and to raise a chronology out of them . . . yet it is not impossible." It was William Smith who, at... | |
| Charles Hepworth Holland, Michael G. Bassett - 2002 - 216 pages
...do generally too much slight and pass over without regard these records of antiquity ...; And tho' it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read them, and to raise a Chronology out of them, and to state the intervalls of the times wherin such, or such... | |
| Michael Cooper, Michael Cyril William Hunter - 2006 - 368 pages
...expressed by Hooke more than 100 years before the great stratigrapher William 'Strata' Smith: And tho' it must be granted, that it is very difficult to read them, and to raise a Chronology [Hooke's own italics] out of them, and to state the intervalls of the Times... | |
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