Rain and Rivers, Or, Hutton and Playfair Against Lyell and All ComersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 237 páginas |
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... history of all de- nudation . These taluses are of very constant occurrence , as I stated in the second edition of the Tree - lifter , ' and may be shown where they do occur , because they are unstratified . what formed them but ...
... history of all de- nudation . These taluses are of very constant occurrence , as I stated in the second edition of the Tree - lifter , ' and may be shown where they do occur , because they are unstratified . what formed them but ...
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... historical documents , the ancient geo- graphical boundaries of this group of strata in that direction . On the ... history , the records attest an extra- ordinary amount of loss . During a period of no more than eighty years there ...
... historical documents , the ancient geo- graphical boundaries of this group of strata in that direction . On the ... history , the records attest an extra- ordinary amount of loss . During a period of no more than eighty years there ...
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... history of this delta of the Rother , Holinshed talks of Romneie Marsh , which in old time was called Romania or Roman- orum Insula . ' Mr. Holloway says that Romney is the Saxon translation of this - ea being island . Dugdale referring ...
... history of this delta of the Rother , Holinshed talks of Romneie Marsh , which in old time was called Romania or Roman- orum Insula . ' Mr. Holloway says that Romney is the Saxon translation of this - ea being island . Dugdale referring ...
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... historical times all the harbours of the alluvial Rother have been ' swarved up , ' and now bear sheep instead of ships . Now 62,000 acres , worth perhaps £ 200,000 a year rent , are not formed by an igneous crack certainly . What did ...
... historical times all the harbours of the alluvial Rother have been ' swarved up , ' and now bear sheep instead of ships . Now 62,000 acres , worth perhaps £ 200,000 a year rent , are not formed by an igneous crack certainly . What did ...
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... history , by the erosive action of the torrent , the last of them having remained down to the sixth century of our era . ' 6 be of igneous formation . dicts himself ject . And indeed it is hard to see , if the ' fissure or Lyell contra ...
... history , by the erosive action of the torrent , the last of them having remained down to the sixth century of our era . ' 6 be of igneous formation . dicts himself ject . And indeed it is hard to see , if the ' fissure or Lyell contra ...
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