 | John Macculloch - 1831 - 534 pages
...hundred thousand years for the production of this series alone. And yet,what are the coal deposits, and what the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata? Let the, computer measure the Apennine and the Jura, let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the successive... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 pages
...have no real foundation at all, when very different periods are ' Yet what are the coal deposits ; and what, the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata ? Let the computer measure the Appenine and the Jura. Let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 pages
...have no real foundation at all, when very different periods are ' Yet what are the coal deposits ; and what, the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata ? Let the computer measure the Appenine and the Jura. Let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 470 pages
...lor he proceeds to enlarge till he seems to smile at lus own exaggerations, for he ndtls,— " Yet what are the coal deposites ; and what the oldest...sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata? Let the computer measure tile Appenine and the Jura. Let him, if he can trust Palla», measure the... | |
 | 1835 - 1040 pages
...hundred thousand years for the production of this series alone. And yet what are the coal deposits, and what the oldest sandstone compared to the entire mass of the strata ? Let the computer measure the Appenine and the Jura ; let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the... | |
 | 1835 - 516 pages
...hundred thousand years for the production of this series alone. And yet what are the coal deposits, and what the oldest sandstone compared to the entire mass of the strata ? Let the computer measure the Appenine and the Jura ; let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1838 - 448 pages
...for he proceeds to enlarge till he seems to smile at his own exaggerations, for he adds, — " Yet what are the coal deposites ; and what the oldest...sandstone, compared to the entire mass of the strata? Let the computer measure the Appenine and the Jura. Let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the successive... | |
 | William Hill Tucker - 1838 - 512 pages
...hundred thousand years for the production of this series alone. And yet, what are the coal deposits, and what the oldest sand-stone compared to the entire mass of the strata ? Let the computer measure the Apennine and the Jura ; let him, if he can trust Pallas, measure the... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1839 - 464 pages
...he allows 600,000 years for the production of this series alone. And yet, what are the coaldeposits, and what the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire...neither fear to seek TRUTH, nor dread it when found." J I do not take upon me to affirm that these numbers are incontrovertibly correct ; but let it not... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 pages
...allows 600,000 years for the production of this series alone. And yet, what are the coal-deposits, and what the oldest sandstone, compared to the entire...who neither fear to seek TRUTH, nor dread it when found."f I do not take upon me to affirm that these numbers are incontrovertibly correct; but let it... | |
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If these views of the powers and the results of geological investigation are alarming to feeble minds, they tend to exalt that science in the estimation of those who neither fear to seek TRUTH, nor dread it when found... 
