The Scenery of Scotland Viewed in Connection with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan and Company,limited, 1887 - Всего страниц: 481 |
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The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology Archibald Geikie Полный просмотр - 1887 |
The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical Geology Archibald Geikie Полный просмотр - 1887 |
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Ayrshire basalt basin boulder-clay boulders Caithness Carboniferous cliffs Clyde coast coast-line conglomerate conspicuous corries crags crest deep denudation deposits descend district dykes east erosion escarpments feet Firth Firth of Clyde frosts geological structure Glacial glaciers Glen gneiss gorge granite greywacke height high grounds Highlands hills hollow ice-sheet ice-worn island lake land landscape limestone Loch Loch Fyne Lomond Lower Old Red Lowlands marked mass Midland Valley miles moraines Moray Firth mounds mountains narrow north-west northern Ochil Ochil Hills Old Red Sandstone once peat Pentland Hills Permian plain precipices present quartzite railway raised beach ravine region ridges rise river rocky runs sand scenery schists Scotland Scottish sea-lochs seen shores side Silurian Skye slopes smooth Southern Uplands stone strata stream striæ striking sub-aërial summit surface Sutherland table-land terrace traced tract volcanic rocks waste watershed western wide worn
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Стр. 376 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Стр. 318 - Beneath our feet, a little lowly vale, A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains ; even as if the spot Had been from eldest time by wish of theirs So placed, to be shut out from all the world ! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed...
Стр. 3 - Be gather'd now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.
Стр. 304 - Gar warn the water, braid and wide, Gar warn it sune and hastilie ! They that winna ride for Telfer's kye, Let them never look in the face o...
Стр. xxii - How divine, The liberty, for frail, for mortal man To roam at large among unpeopled glens And mountainous retirements, only trod By devious footsteps ; regions consecrate To oldest time ! and, reckless of the storm That keeps the raven quiet in her nest, Be as a presence or a motion — one Among the many there...
Стр. 163 - Inscribed, as with the silence of the thought, Upon its bleak and visionary sides, The history of many a winter storm, Or obscure records of the path of fire.
Стр. 246 - From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Стр. 55 - ... cubic feet, equal to about 10 tons weight. In the German Ocean, we can refer to the Bell Rock Lighthouse, which, though 112 feet in height, is literally buried in foam and spray to the very top, during ground swells, when there is no wind.
Стр. 70 - is the devastation that has taken place amidst this wreck of nature. Close to the Isle of Stenness is the Skerry of Eshaness, formidably rising from the sea, and showing on its westerly side a steep precipice, against which all the force of the Atlantic seems to have been expended : it affords a refuge for myriads of kittiwakes, whose shrill cries, mingling with the dashing of the waters, wildly accord with the terrific scene that is presented on every...