 | English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia. I found good reason to believe that the coast had...consisting of shingle mixed with shells, extending in a paraUdl direction to the shore to the height qfjiftiffeet ttliuTc the sea. The country has in former... | |
 | Royal Geological Society of Cornwall - Geology - 1871 - 770 pages
...America, pp. 252-4. " Several ancient lines of beach, consisting of shingle mixed with shells, " extend in a parallel direction to the shore, to the height of fifty feet above the "sea."— MBS. (GRAHAM) CALLCOTT, Geol. Trans., 2nd Series, ip 415. " At the mouth of the Rapel sixty miles south... | |
 | Science - 1835 - 432 pages
...adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive efluvia. I found good reason to believe that the coast had...shore, to the height of fifty feet above the sea. The country has, in former years, been visited by Earthquakes, the last of any consequence having been... | |
 | Science - 1835 - 922 pages
...adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive efluvia. I found good reason to believe that the coast had...shore, to the height of fifty feet above the sea. The country has, in former years, been visited by Earthquakes, the last of any consequence having been... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1826 - 854 pages
...adhering to the rocks on which they grew-, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia. I found good reason to believe that the coast had...in a parallel direction to the shore to the height ofjiftyfeet above the sea. The country has in former years been visited by earthquakes, the last of... | |
 | English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia. I found good reason to believe that the coast had been raised by earthquakes at former periods iu a similar manner, several ancient linet ofbtach, outsitting of shingle mixed with shells, extending... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Bible and geology - 1829 - 704 pages
...to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead and exhaling most offensive effluvia. She found good reason to believe that the coast had been...parallel direction to the shore, to the height of 50 feet above the sea. The country was in former years visited by earthquakes, the last of any consequence... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Bible and geology - 1829 - 704 pages
...to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead and exhaling most offensive effluvia. She found good reason to believe that the coast had been...parallel direction to the shore, to the height of 50 feet above the sea. The country was in former years visited by earthquakes, the last of any consequence... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell, Gérard Paul Deshayes - Geology - 1830 - 566 pages
...raised above high-water mark, there were several older elevated lines of beach one above the other, consisting of shingle mixed with shells, extending...shore, to the height of fifty feet above the sea*. Aleppo, 1822. — In 1822 Aleppo was destroyed by an earthquake, and alterations are said to have been... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...with oysters, mussels, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which they grew. Mrs Graham found reason to believe that the coast had been raised by...ancient lines of beach, consisting of shingle mixed witb shells, extending in a direction parallel to the shore, to the height of 50 feet above the sea.... | |
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Earthquakes, at former periods, in a similar manner, several ancient lines of beach, consisting of shingle, mixed with shells, extending in a parallel direction to the shore, to the height of fifty feet above the sea. 
