Geological sketches and observations, on vegetable fossil remains, &c., collected in the parish of Ashton-under-LyneH. Johnson, 1839 - 80 |
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Strona 82 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Strona 77 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Strona 69 - Scripture to admit, neither are we required to deny, the supposition that the matter without form and void, out of which this globe of earth was framed, may have consisted of the wrecks and relics of more ancient worlds, created and destroyed by the same Almighty power which called our world into being, and will one day cause it to pass away.
Strona 113 - ... and a quarter tons ; and allowing 130 trees to an acre, we have 300 tons on that space. Supposing the portion that falls annually, leaves and wood, to be equal to onethirtieth, we have ten tons of wood annually from an acre, which yields two tons of charcoal ; and this charcoal, with the addition of bitumen, forms two and a half tons of coal. Now, a cubic yard of coal weighs almost exactly one ton ; and a bed of coal one acre in extent, and three feet thick, will contain 4840 tons. It follows,...
Strona 69 - that it was one thing to declare that we had not yet discovered the traces of a beginning, and another to deny that the earth ever had a beginning.
Strona 114 - ... of forest; or, if the wood all grew on the spot where its remains exist, the coal bed three feet thick, and one acre in extent, must be the growth of 1940 years! Even if we suppose the vegetation, like that of a tropical climate, to be twice as rapid as I have assumed, we shall still require about 1000 years to form a bed of coal one yard thick ; and, as an example of a coal-field, for the thirty-six yards of coal in the Mid-Lothian coal-field, in Scotland, a period of 36,000 years!"* DEPOSITION...
Strona 1 - With what an awful world-revolving power Were first the unwieldy planets launched along The illimitable void ! thus to remain, * Amid the flux of many thousand years, That oft has swept the toiling race of men And all their laboured monuments away...
Strona 78 - Masonic edifices; they wrought six days; they did not work on the seventh, because in six days God created the heavens and the earth, and rested on the seventh day. The seventh, therefore, our ancient brethren consecrated as a day of rest; thereby enjoying more frequent opportunities to contemplate the glorious works of creation, and to adore their great Creator.
Strona 97 - Let the waters be gathered together, and let the dry land appear.
Strona 114 - ... terrestrial treasures in store for His children, whom He was afterwards to call into being. Let me, therefore, dismiss this subject with one illustration. Mr. Maclaren, by a happy train of reasoning, for which I must refer the reader to his