 | 1845 - 448 pages
...converted into land, and land into sea, since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to." Passing from the natural history of the country to the manners of the people, we have a very amusing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
...converted into land, and. land into sea, since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyranees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...within the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to. The geologist may muse and speculate on these events until, filled with awe and admiration, he forgets... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Atlantic States - 1845 - 376 pages
...converted into land, and land into sea, since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...within the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to. The geologist may muse and speculate on these events until, filled with awe and admiration, he forgets... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Evolution - 1846 - 318 pages
...has sea been converted into land since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to."* If time, to anything like the amount here insisted on, have really elapsed between the commencement... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - Geology - 1846 - 216 pages
...converted into land and land into sea since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to." " The evidence of geological phenomena," observes Dr. John Pye Smith, in one of the notes to his admirable... | |
 | Economics - 1846 - 594 pages
...was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountains, but the solid materials of which they are composed,...beneath the sea within the stupendous interval of the ages here alluded to." There are many other extracts which could be made of deep, deep, interest... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1848 - 436 pages
...converted into land, and land into sea, since that rock mas formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...within the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to. " The geologist may muse and speculate on these events, until, filled with awe and admiration, he forgets... | |
 | Parapsychology - 1848 - 424 pages
...formed. The Alps, the Pyranees, the Himalaya, have not only begun lo exist as lofty mountain chains, bat the solid materials of which they are composed have...the stupendous Interval of ages here alluded to." Such being the case then, or if any thing like the tremendous periods and revolutions here referred... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 428 pages
...converted into land, and land into sea, since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains,...within the stupendous interval of ages here alluded to. " The geologist may muse and speculate on these events, until, filled with awe and admiration, he forgets... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1850 - 438 pages
...converted into land, and land into sea, since that rock was formed. The Alps, the Pyrenees, the Himalaya, have not only begun to exist as lofty mountain chains, but the solid materials of SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. which they are composed have been slowly elaborated beneath the sea, within the... | |
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... which the Niagara is precipitated at the Falls. Many have been the successive revolutions in organic life, and many the vicissitudes in the physical geography of the globe, and often has sea been converted into land, and land into sea, since that... 
