 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 528 pages
...and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...instance, by dissipation and decay, and in the second by the denuding agencies. Almost all our coal, — the stored up fuel of a world,—forms but a comparatively... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 520 pages
...and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...instance, by dissipation and decay, and in the second by the denuding agencies. Almost all our coal, — the stored up fuel of a world, — forms but a comparatively... | |
 | 1858 - 652 pages
...most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, •with which the fossil botanist lias formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...instance, by dissipation and decay, and in the second by the denuding agencies. Almost all our coal— the stored-up fuel of a world — forms but a comparatively... | |
 | Samuel Rowles Pattison - 1858 - 190 pages
...and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...so rank a vegetation as that of which the numerous coal-seams and inflammable shale of the carboniferous period form but a portion of the remains ; the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pages
...productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since Jid our planet bear so rank a vegetation as that of which the numerous coal scams им! inflammable shales of the carboniferous period form but a portion of the remains — the... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1861 - 650 pages
...and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...the carboniferous period form but a portion of the remains,—the portion spared, in the first instance, by dissipation and decay, and in the second by... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 530 pages
...and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...instance, by dissipation and decay, and in the second by the denuding agencies. Almost all our coal, — the stored up fuel of a world, — forms but a comparatively... | |
 | 1868 - 104 pages
...most luxuriant, in at least individual prochictions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...period form but a portion of the remains. . . . The singularly profuse vegetation of the coal measures was, with all its wild luxuriance, of a resembling... | |
 | Samuel Hutchins - 1868 - 120 pages
...and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet...rank a vegetation as that of which the numerous coal seains and inflammable shales of the carboniferous period form but a portion of the remains. . . .... | |
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The flora of the Coal Measures was the richest and most luxuriant, in at least individual productions, with which the fossil botanist has formed any acquaintance. Never before or since did our planet bear so rank a vegetation as that of which the numerous... 