The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 17Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1861 |
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appears beds Beer-Crowcombe calcareous Cambrian sandstone Carboniferous character clay cliff coal coast colour conglomerate Cretaceous crystalline deposits described Devonian district Durham east fault fauna feet flagstones flint formation fossils fragments frond genus Geol Geological geologists Glen Glossopteris gneiss gneissose granite gravel greenstone grey grits Hampole Highlands Hill inch Island Journ Kámpti Lake lime limestone localities Loch Broom Loch Maree Loch Tay Lower Limestone Macrauchenia marl masses memoir metamorphic micaceous miles mineral mountains nearly noticed numerous observed occur Old Red Oolitic overlying Permian plants plates porphyry portion present Prof quarry quartz quartz-rock quartzite quartzose R. I. Murchison Red Sandstone Rhætic ridge River rocks sand schistose schists seen shales shell side Silurian slates Society South Yorkshire species specimens stone strata surface syenite terraces Tertiary thickness Tunbridge upper valley veins White Lias
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Page lxx - ... belong not, therefore, to the moral history of our race, and come neither within the letter nor the spirit of revelation. Between the first creation of the earth and that day in which it pleased God to place man upon it, who shall dare to define the interval ? On this question scripture is silent : but that silence destroys not the meaning of those physical monuments of his power that God has put before our eyes ; giving us, at the same time, faculties whereby we may interpret them and comprehend...
Page lxix - Tenison, Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Worcester, added chronological dates at the head of the several columns, and on the margin of the title of Genesis the following : — ' Year before the common year of Christ, 4004.' This edition is to be seen in the British Museum : it was printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased, printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. " The copy of the Bible in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in which that date first appears over against the first...
Page lxv - Rhine, &c. The inference to be drawn from that hypothesis is self-evident; it is this, that the primitive people to whom we attribute the hatchets and other worked flints of Amiens and Abbeville might have communicated with the existing...
Page 532 - Scotland, continuing it along the 100-fathom-line on the Atlantic side of Scotland and Ireland, and connecting with it the line of deepest soundings along St. George's Channel, an unequal-sided hexagonal figure is described around the British Isles, and a pentagonal figure around Ireland.
Page lxxi - But let us, for a moment, suppose that there are some religious difficulties in the conclusions of geology. How then are we to solve them ? Not by making a world after a pattern of our own — not by shifting and shuffling the solid strata of the earth, and then dealing them out in such a way as to play the game of an ignorant or dishonest hypothesis — not by shutting our eyes to facts, or denying the evidence of our senses : but by patient investigation, carried on in the sincere love of truth,...
Page 420 - thus proving the range of this formation over a slope rising from 500 to 2,300 feet above the sea, and yet preserving on the whole the same characters, and showing no evidence of recent local disturbance beyond the gentle uplift which has effected this inclination.
Page lxvii - Manetho, 1 are compared with the accounts of the stone monuments. The result, if we can receive it, is to vindicate for the civilized kingdom of Egypt, from Menes downward, an antiquity of nearly four thousand years before Christ. There is no point in which archaeologists of all shades were so nearly unanimous as in the belief that our Biblical chronology was too narrow in its limits; and the enlargement of our views, deduced from Egyptian records, is extended by our author's reasonings on the development...
Page lxxii - ... some being of a very simple and others of a very complex character. If additional evidence were wanted that language was an adventitious acquirement, it was found in this — that a whole nation might lose its original tongue, and in its stead adopt any foreign one. The language...
Page lxxi - ... not by shutting our eyes to facts, or denying the evidence of our senses : but by patient investigation, carried on in the sincere love of truth, and by learning to reject every consequence not warranted by direct physical evidence. Pursued in this spirit, Geology can neither lead to any false conclusions, nor offend against any religious truth.
Page xxxix - ... work depends wholly on the ultimate justification of the theoretical views which it contains. On the contrary, if they were disproved to-morrow, the book would still be the best of its kind — the most compendious statement of well-sifted facts bearing on the doctrine of species that has ever appeared.