 | John Evans - Flint - 1860 - 92 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been but little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men. How great was the lapse of time that separated the primeval race... | |
 | Geology - 1861 - 746 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying...made in a cavern of Jurassic rock near Arcy, in the Departement de 1'Aube, between Troyes and Chalons-sur-Marne, which paper has since been printed in... | |
 | James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell - Theology - 1861 - 994 pages
...of the Geological Society of France, in April 1860, M. de Vibraye, read an account, since published, of explorations he had made in a cavern of Jurassic rock near Arcy, in the " Departement-de-l'-Aube," between Troyes and Chalons-surMarne. This cavern had in it three beds of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 854 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men.1 FLINTSHIRE, a maritime county of North Wales, bounded on the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 856 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men." FLINTSHIRE, a maritime county of North Wales, bounded on the... | |
 | James Barr MITCHELL - Archaeology - 1876 - 122 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been but little altered since the days when the Gauls and Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men." (On the Occurrence of Flint Implements in Undisturbed Beds of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 1208 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men." See MAN. FLINTSHIRE, a maritime co. of n. Wales, bounded on the... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 958 pages
...stationary, and the face of which has been little altered since the days when the Gauls and the Romans constructed their sepulchres in the soil overlying the drift which contains these relics of a far earlier race of men." See MAN. FLINTSHIRE, a maritime со. of n. Wales, bounded on... | |
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... feet in thickness, a portion of which, at all events, must have subsided from tranquil water, has been formed upon it ; and this, too, has taken place in a country the level of which is now stationary, and the face of which has been little altered... 