Ancient Sea-margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and LandW. & R. Chambers, 1848 - 337 páginas |
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70 feet alluvial alluvium ancient beaches ancient sea-levels ancient sea-margins appears ascend bank broad called Carse Carse of Gowrie Castle character Charles Maclaren clay cliff Clyde coast coincident composed conspicuous corresponding delta deposit described detrital diluvium district east Edinburgh Eildon Eildon Hills elevation estuary extending face Falkirk Firth Firth of Tay flat formation former fragments Galashiels geologists Glen Roy Glen Spean gravel gravelly ground haugh height higher hill-face hills hollow horizontal Inverlaire Inverness Inverroy island lake land less Loch Lochy Lochaber Lomond Hill lower markings mass measurements Meigle miles Milne mounts narrow observed opposite side passes plain plateau portion present level promontory Railway relative level remarkable ridge rising river road rock sand sandstone Scotland Scottish sea-marking seated seen shelf shells shelves similar situated skirts slope steep stream surface terrace tide tion town traced Tweed vale valley village
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Página 193 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.
Página 193 - He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower: The Minstrel gazed with wishful eye — No humbler resting-place was nigh; With hesitating step at last The embattled...
Página 20 - It isevident that these embankments are not the sole or the principal cause of tbe sea no longer flowing within them, but that the natural recession of the sea (or elevation of the land) induced the inhabitants to anticipate, by the erection of earthen mounds, that which would have been produced in a few years by other causes. The sea marks may be traced upon the surface of the escarpments in several of the islands of the Tremadoc Valley, many feet above the present level of high water.
Página 194 - I wot he gaed wi' sorrow, Till, down in a den, he spied nine arm'd men, On the dowie houms of Yarrow. " O come ye here to part your land, The bonnie Forest thorough ? Or come ye here to wield your brand, On the dowie houms of Yarrow...
Página 317 - ... coasts of the United States and in the Gulf of St Lawrence, as it does in Britain ; that conspicuous terraces in Britain and in France at 188 and 392 feet are repeated in America ; that there, also, at about 545 feet, are several repetitions of a decided and most notable Scottish terrace — that Scott built his house of Abbotsford on an ancient sea-beach beside the Tweed, which finds an analogue in the first of the grand ridges sweeping from east to west behind Toronto ; and that the sandy plateaux...
Página 207 - Street, and the numerous streets to the north and south of that line. This plain is composed of sand, as appears whenever the foundation of an old house is dug up. Mr. John Craig, an able practical geologist at Glasgow, says, in a communication to one of my correspondents, ' The deposit immediately underlying the Trongate and London Street is a bed of sand, with traces of lamination. This rests on laminated clays, the same as occur at the brickworks at Annfield, east end of the Gallowgate, and on...
Página 304 - Sketches, Drake's Picture of Cincinnati, Darby's Louisiana, and Professor Hitchcock's Report on the Geology of Massachusetts ; some of them mentioning two, three, or even more of these river terraces. The latter author thus describes them on the Connecticut river in Massachusetts: " If we start from the edge of the stream at low water, and ascend a bank of 10 or 15 feet high, we shall come upon an alluvial meadow, which is frequently overflowed, and is consequently receiving yearly deposits : this...
Página 206 - The situation of the boats found under the Tontine and Trades' Lands (places within a pistolshot of each other) is 21 or 22 feet above highwater in the river. It forms part of that extensive plain which rises from the river's brink to the height of about 26 feet above tide-mark, forming the site of the Trongate and Argyle Street, and the numerous streets to the north and south of that line. This plain is composed of sand, as appears whenever the foundation of an old house is dug up.
Página 20 - Huutly stands, in the center of the Carse, once had rings fixed to it for mooring the boats formerly used in sailing over the surrounding waters. A circumstance in the title deeds of at least one estate on the slopes descending to the Carse has given more force to these popular beliefs in the minds of the educated classes, namely, that they include a right of salmon fishing, though the lands are separated from the firth by the whole breadth of the Carse.
Página 310 - ... the ridges and other marks of ancient water levels between Toronto and Lake Simcoe as referable, some of them, to ancient beaches and lines of cliff formed on the margins of channels of the sea ; others, including some of the loftiest ridges, as having originated in banks or bars of sand formed not at the extreme edge of a body of water, but at some distance from the shore, in proportion as the water obtained a certain shallowness by the upheaval of the land.