 | Geology - 1834 - 502 pages
...having awakened us to a sense of our error in this respect. The vast mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances. The first sight of those comparatively recent assemblages of strata, which he designates the Eocene,... | |
 | Science - 1834 - 494 pages
...mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called Diurnal Geologyt convinces me, that if, five thousand years ago, a...over the entire globe, its traces can no longer be distifìgu'iBhed from more modern and local disturbances. The first sight of those comparatively recent... | |
 | John Holland - Coal - 1835 - 514 pages
...scarcely of the kind which we understand by a deluge, and the frequent repetition of * Mr. Greenhough, in an address, delivered in 1834, before the Geological...credible. It may be maintained, with more certainty, of bronm coal than of black coal, that they have been formed in land water, and hence, in limited and... | |
 | Religion - 1837 - 1068 pages
...my predecessors, I also read my recantation. — The vast mass of evidence which he (Mr. Lyell) has brought together in illustration of what may be called...longer be distinguished from more modern and local disturbances.''J The opinion of Mr. Murchison corresponds essentially with the two last quoted. " From... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1839 - 464 pages
...having awakened us to a sense of our error in this respect. The vast mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances. The first sight of those comparatively recent assemblages of strata, which he designates the Eocene,... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 376 pages
...having awakened us to a sense of our error in this respecl. The vast mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances. The first sight of those DRIFT IN OTHER REGIONS. 125 comparatively recent assemblages of strata, which... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 566 pages
...having awakened us to a sense of our error in this respect. The vast mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances. The first sight of those comparatively recent assemblages of strata, which he designates the Eocene,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1840 - 740 pages
...Greenhough (a high authority) observes : — " The vast mass of evidence which Mr. Lyell has brought forward in illustration of what may be called diurnal Geology,...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances. The inference, says our author, to which these observations and reasonings lead is, that geological... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 548 pages
...my predecessors, I also read my recantation. — The vast mass of evidence which he (Mr. Lyell) has brought together in illustration of what may be called...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances."! The opinion of Mr. Murchison corresponds essentially with the two last quoted. " From these and other... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1852 - 576 pages
...having awakened us to a sense of our error in this respect. The vast mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called...distinguished from more modern and local disturbances. The first sight of those comparatively recent assemblages of strata which he designates the Eocene,... | |
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I believe incontestably established. To Mr. Lyell is eminently due the merit of having awakened us to a sense of our error in this respect. The vast mass of evidence which he has brought together, in illustration of what may be called Diurnal Geology,... 
