Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of Nova ScotiaGossip and Coade, 1836 - 272 pages |
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Page xx - What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base.
Page 113 - God had •determined to bring upon the earth at once, " the windows of heaven were opened, and the fountains of the great deep broken up.
Page 26 - From whence came these shells, and by what mighty convulsions and changes in this globe have their inmates been deprived of life and incarcerated in hard, compact, and unyielding rocks? By what momentous and violent catastrophe have they been forced from the bottom of the ocean, where they were evidently at some former period placed, to the height of several hundred feet above the level of the present sea, and even to the tops of the highest mountains?
Page xx - And tottering empires rush by their own weight. This huge rotundity we tread, grows old ; And all those worlds that roll around the sun, The sun himself, shall die ; and ancient Night Again involve the desolate abyss...
Page 157 - Roman empire, which, in connexion with the wide spread of Christianity, makes a great epoch in the history of the human race. In a narrower sense, it is applied to the two principal nations of former times, Greece and Rome, or to the early age of any nation. The...
Page 249 - Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.
Page 115 - Genesis; and that there is no necessity for making the world appear older than its date given by Moses. Again: The volcanic fires of the earth are gradually becoming extinct. They were evidently far more vehement in former ages than in the present day. Therefore, we have sufficient reasons to believe that from the creation of the world to the deluge great changes must have taken place upon the earth's surface.
Page 90 - They were inhabitants of the same age, enjoyed similar bounties, (lie same cliniate, and were companions at a ]ieriod when the waters of the sea were as warm as those of the present tropical oceans; a fact easily proved by their organization and the beauty and delicacy of their shelly coverings. The corals, coraline sponges, ami other vegetable productions of that period, although bearing a.
Page 8 - Pliny tells us that at Harpasa, a town of Asia, there was a rock of such a wonderful nature, that if touched with the finger it would shake, but could not be moved from its place with the whole force of the body.
Page 165 - ... to be observed. They are small ; and instead of being placed upright, lie down on their sides, each * forming a segment of a circle. From thence you pass a small cave ; above which the pillars, now grown a little larger, are inclining in all directions. In one place, in particular, a small mass of them very much resembles the ribs of a ship. From...