 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 462 pages
...which the sea could not be conveyed by any previously existing cause. They are not merely enclosed in loose sand, but are often incrusted and penetrated...island of any size, exhibits the same phenomenon. We are therefore forcibly led to believe, not only that the sea has at one period or another covered... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often encrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose...incrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest »tones. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, every island of any size, exhibits... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1839 - 616 pages
...circumstances; they are not only enveloped in loose sand, but are often enclosed in the hardest rocks. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, every island of any extent exhibits the same phenomenon. It is the sea which has left them in the places where they are... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pages
...circumstances ; they are not only enveloped in loose sand, but are often enclosed in the hardest rocks. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, every island of any extent exhibits the same phenomenon." " It is the sea which has left them in the places where they... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose...sand, but are often incrusted and penetrated on all Bides by the hardest stones. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, every island... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 580 pages
...be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only enclosed in loose sand, but are often encrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones....island of any size, exhibits the same phenomenon. We are therefore forcibly led to believe, not only that the sea has at one period or another covered... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1863 - 654 pages
...circumstances; they are not only enveloped in loose sand, but are often enclosed in the hardest rocks. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere, every continent, every island of any extent, exhibits the same phenomenon. It is the sea which has left them in the places where they are... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1871 - 224 pages
...above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only inclosed in loose sand, but are often iucrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones. Every part of the earth, every hemisphere,... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1874 - 690 pages
...be conveyed by any existing cause. They are not only enclosed in loose sand, but are often encrusted and penetrated on all sides by the hardest stones....continent, every island of any size, exhibits the snme phenomenon. We are therefore forcibly led. to believe, not only that the sea has at one period... | |
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... tenderest processes. They are found in elevations far above the level of every part of the ocean, and in places to which the sea could not be conveyed by any existing cause. 
