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 escarpment estuary extending face Falkirk Firth Firth of Tay flat formation former fragments Galashiels geologists Glen Roy Glen Spean gravel ground haugh height higher hill-face hills hollow horizontal Inverness Inverroy island Kingussie lake land less Loch Lochy Loch Tulla Lochaber Lomond Hill lower markings mass measurements Meigle miles Milne mounts narrow observed opposite side pass plain plateau present level promontory Railway relative level remarkable ridge rising river road rock sand sandstone Scotland Scottish sea-marking seated seen shelf shells shelves similar skirts slope steep stream surface terrace tide tion town traced Tweed vale valley village
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Página 189 - 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 201 - ... the Firth of Clyde was a sea several miles wide at Glasgow, covering the site of the lower districts of the city, and receiving the waters of the river not lower than Bothwell Bridge.
Página 189 - Stuarts' throne: The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a King had loved to hear. He...
Página 20 - It isevident that these embankments are not the sole or the principal cause of the 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 190 - I wot he gaed wi' sorrow, Till, down in a den, he spied nine armed men, On the dowie bourns 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 202 - Taken in connection with the whales' bones and perforated deers < horns of the Carse of Stirling, the boat and other relics said to have been found near Falkirk, the human skull at Grangemouth, and the various particulars already cited with respect to the Carse of Gowrie, these Glasgow canoes are objects of much greater interest than any one seems yet to have thought of attaching to them.
Página 1 - Welsh mountains of sea-shells of existing species, at heights of 1500 and 1700 feet above the sea, where they are associated with mixed detritus of rocks transported from afar, all of which have travelled from the north, the hard chalk and flints of the north of Ireland being included. How are we to reconcile these facts with the theory that the greater part of the country in question was frozen up under the atmosphere in some parts of the same modern period?
Página 20 - ... the Tremadoc valley, many feet above the present level of high water. Tradition also lends its aid. From the rocky ground of Yns hir, Madoc, one of the princes of North Wales, leaving his native country, sailed to unknown lands*.
Página 311 - 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 of Lanark and Carstairs are in metrical harmony with the terraces and ridges of the halfpeopled wilds of Michigan.
Página 200 - The situation of the boats found under the Tontine and Trades' Lands (places within a pistol-shot of each other) is 21 or 22 feet above high-water in the river. It forms part of that extensive plain which rises from the river's brink to the height of...