 | Geology - 1851 - 438 pages
...formed and before the British dominions were broken into isles. Our great insular dislocations were, I conceive, coincident with that striking phenomenon...and their magnitude is enormous when compared with anything which passes under our eyes, or has been recorded in human history. At the same time geologists... | |
 | Science - 1851 - 450 pages
...formed and before the British dominions were broken into isles. Our great insular dislocations were, I conceive, coincident with that striking phenomenon...and their magnitude is enormous when compared with anything which passes under our eyes, or has been recorded in human history. At the same time geologists... | |
 | William Paul - Bible and science - 1870 - 176 pages
...large a portion of this hemisphere, and when large portions of our northern land formed the bottom of an Arctic Sea. But such tracts were bidden to rise...revolutions of which I have treated had passed away." — Murchison's Siluria, Appendix ii., pp. 502, 504. "In Asia Dr Hooker has observed Boulder drift... | |
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... own country. The large extinct British quadrupeds necessarily required a great range for their sustenance. They had doubtlessly roamed from distant tracts to our lands before the straits of Dover were formed and before the British dominions were broken... 