 The sea is constantly beating on the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn-off particles and fragments, in the state of mud and pebbles, over its bed. Geological facts afford abundant proof that the existing continents have all of them undergone...  What May be Learned from a Tree - Page 55by Harland Coultas - 1859 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...course. (182.) The sea is constantly beating on the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn off particles and fragments, in the state of mud and pebbles,...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...course. (182.) The sea is constantly beating on the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn off particles and fragments, in the state of mud and pebbles,...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 500 pages
...the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn-off particles and fragments, in the state of sand and pebbles, over its bed. Geological facts afford...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 514 pages
...the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn-off particles and fragments, in the state of sand and pebbles, over its bed. Geological facts afford...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | 1841 - 444 pages
...pebbles, over ita bed. ' Geological facts afford abundant proof that the »™H"g continent* have all ef them undergone this process, even more than once, and been entirely torn in fragments, or reduced to pow. tier, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1842 - 472 pages
...the state of mud and pebbles, over its bed. Geological facts afford abundant proof that the existing1 continents have all of them undergone this process,...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...course. (227.) The sea is constantly beating on the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn off particles and fragments, in the state of mud and pebbles,...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1853 - 608 pages
...the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn-off particles and fragments, in the state of mod and pebbles, over its bed. Geological facts afford...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pages
...over its bed. Geological facts afford abundant proof that the * Illust. of Hutt. Thcory, § 485-448. existing continents have all of them undergone this...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribnte of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1857 - 608 pages
...natural course. (227.) The sea is constantly beating on the land, grinding it down, and scattering its worn-off particles and fragments, in the state...reduced to powder, and submerged and reconstructed. Land, in this view of the subject, loses its attribute of fixity. As a mass it might hold together... | |
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