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" On such shores, the fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land: they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break... "
Outlines of Geology: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered ... - Page 134
by William Thomas Brande - 1817 - 144 pages
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An Elementary Treatise on Geology: Determining Fundamental Points in that ...

Jean André Luc - 1809 - 456 pages
...rock once detached, become instruments " of further destruction, and make a part of the •*' powerful artillery, with which the ocean assails the '" bulwarks of the land: they are impelled against " the rocks, from which they break off other frag" ments, and the whole are thus ground against one " another;...
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Geological Travels, Volume 1

Jean André Luc - 1810 - 444 pages
...detached, become instruments of farther " destruction, and make a part of the powerful ar" tillery wjth which the ocean assails the bulwarks " of the land : they are impelled against the rocks, " from which they break off other fragments, and "the whole are thus ground against one another;...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 666 pages
...new and powerful instruments of destruction ; they roll down the precipices, wearing themselves and the surface that bears them, and, if near the sea,...bulwarks of the land ;" they are impelled against th£ coasts, from which they break off other fragments : and the whole thus ground against each other,...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...precipices, wearing themsefres and the surface that bears them, and, if near the sea, or carried thithv by rivers, they become " a part of the mighty artillery...from which they break off other fragments : and the whoje thus ground against each other, whatever be their hardness, are reduced to gravel ; the smooth...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 1

John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pages
...fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land : they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another...
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Letters on the Physical History of the Earth, Addressed to Professor ...

Jean André Luc - 1831 - 522 pages
...fragments of rock once detached become instruments of farther destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land: they are impelled agajnst the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against...
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Incentives to the Cultivation of the Science of Geology: Designed for the ...

Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 pages
...of rock, when detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land ; they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another...
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The Farmer's Magazine

1854 - 606 pages
...themselves and the surface that bears them ; and if near the sea, or carried thither by rivers, they become part of the mighty artillery with which the ocean...whatever be their hardness, are reduced to gravel or shingle, the smooth surface and rounded masses of which are convincing proofs of the manner in which...
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The Library of Original Sources: Advance in knowledge, 1650-1800

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land: they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VI (Advance in Knowledge 1650-1800)

Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pages
...fragments of rock once detached, become instruments of further destruction, and make a part of the powerful artillery with which the ocean assails the bulwarks of the land : they are impelled against the rocks, from which they break off other fragments, and the whole are thus ground against one another;...
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