The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History, and the Fine Arts, Volumes 9-10Simpkin & Marshall, 1830 - Science |
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... never was thicker than 20 or 30 feet at this end of its course , may be seen by tracing the run of the next superior beds , the red and white sandstone . The western boundary of this formation runs from about Worksop Manor , down ...
... never was thicker than 20 or 30 feet at this end of its course , may be seen by tracing the run of the next superior beds , the red and white sandstone . The western boundary of this formation runs from about Worksop Manor , down ...
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... never reach above a certain level , but sweep round the outskirts of the high lands , and conceal with their horizontal strata all the hollows and inequalities that , but for them , might exist in the intermediate spaces . They are never ...
... never reach above a certain level , but sweep round the outskirts of the high lands , and conceal with their horizontal strata all the hollows and inequalities that , but for them , might exist in the intermediate spaces . They are never ...
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... never attached , and there is even some degree of doubt as to whether it includes the shell or is included by it . In all proba- bility the former is the case . In the transition limestone of Œland , an island on the south - east- ern ...
... never attached , and there is even some degree of doubt as to whether it includes the shell or is included by it . In all proba- bility the former is the case . In the transition limestone of Œland , an island on the south - east- ern ...
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... never were a circle or triangle in nature , " says Hume , the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence , " whereas " the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible . ” — Inquiry concerning ...
... never were a circle or triangle in nature , " says Hume , the truths demonstrated by Euclid would for ever retain their certainty and evidence , " whereas " the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible . ” — Inquiry concerning ...
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... never existed , and the inferences arising out of the learned Excursus of Heyne , alluded to in note 6 , class the whole history amongst the legends of poetic fiction . 27 Every lover of classic lore ( there are perhaps too many of them ) ...
... never existed , and the inferences arising out of the learned Excursus of Heyne , alluded to in note 6 , class the whole history amongst the legends of poetic fiction . 27 Every lover of classic lore ( there are perhaps too many of them ) ...
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