Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Volumen2 |
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... present position of opinion respecting the Geology of Devonshire . In making this decision I may have been unwise ; but a people's history depends so largely on their mental development , and this is so closely connected with their ...
... present position of opinion respecting the Geology of Devonshire . In making this decision I may have been unwise ; but a people's history depends so largely on their mental development , and this is so closely connected with their ...
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... present separated only by the valley of the Teign . " + tr This scepticism , though in a less pronounced form , was not without a place in the mind of the late Sir H. De la Beche . " The evidence , " he says , " of the Dartmoor granite ...
... present separated only by the valley of the Teign . " + tr This scepticism , though in a less pronounced form , was not without a place in the mind of the late Sir H. De la Beche . " The evidence , " he says , " of the Dartmoor granite ...
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... present obtains in Devonshire . Indeed , the little birch is an Arctic plant , which has at present no British habitat south of Scotland , and which occurs in mid - Europe only on mountains and sub - Alpine peat - mosses . At this point ...
... present obtains in Devonshire . Indeed , the little birch is an Arctic plant , which has at present no British habitat south of Scotland , and which occurs in mid - Europe only on mountains and sub - Alpine peat - mosses . At this point ...
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... present ; back apparently quite to the modern verge of the Glacial era . This the beaches and forests fail to do . The former are replete with shells , but all of them are the remains of species still existing in the adjacent waters ...
... present ; back apparently quite to the modern verge of the Glacial era . This the beaches and forests fail to do . The former are replete with shells , but all of them are the remains of species still existing in the adjacent waters ...
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... present , and much of their present sub - aerial prolongations must then have been submarine , and , in all probability , would have had deposited on them marine beds coeval with the beaches ; but in no instance are the sub - aerial ...
... present , and much of their present sub - aerial prolongations must then have been submarine , and , in all probability , would have had deposited on them marine beds coeval with the beaches ; but in no instance are the sub - aerial ...
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ancient animals annual antiquity appears Association Barnstaple Barnstaple Bay barrow beds believe bones Bovey Bovey Tracey Bowerb Brit British Brushford Carboniferous caudal fin cave Cavern character clay coast of Devon colour Combmartin Cornwall crystals Dartmoor deposits Devonian Devonshire district dorsal dorsal fin east evidence Exeter existing fact feet fish flint forests fossil fragments Geological granite ground Hill Honiton hyæna inches iron Johnst Kent's Cavern Kent's Hole known labour length limestone mean miles Mont Montagu North Devon observed occur Old Red Old Red Sandstone pebbles Pengelly period Pilton Plymouth Polperro portion present prison probably red sandstone remains remarkable rocks sand says sewer shells side Silurian slate South coast species specimens Spong stalagmite stones supposed surface Tavistock temperature thick tide tion Torbay Torquay Trans tumuli valley whilst