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31827What do you think of these sentiments from a Roman Catholic Divine?
38148Does the valley find the stream or the stream the valley?
38148How are they acquired?
43597Why do we not find here and there a beaver dam?
34056No authentic human impressions have yet been established; and none of the mammalia, except the marsupials.(?)
34056The most remarkable of the fish- specimens in our collection is a CEPHALASPIS(?
34056The striæ, so distinctly discernable in a number of these portions, having been compared with twigs of the existing coniferæ(?
34056There is another form of ripple- marks(?
34056We naturally ask, What kind of biped could this have been?
62871It is not unusual for the visitors at Whitby to inquire of the collectors how it is that the head of the animal is never found?
62871More thoughts on a pebble!--is not the subject exhausted?
62871Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee,-- Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they?
353166- 1/2} length of each bone 5- 1/2 7- 3/4 5- 1/2[ 4- 1/2?]
353167- 3/4 8- 1/2[ 7?]
35316Palate of Macrocercus and?
33560A, ceratohyal, lateral(?)
33560Anterior lepidotrichia appear unjointed but the posterior ones are jointed for the distal two- thirds(?)
33560B, pelvic girdle basal plate, medial(?)
33560The lateral(?)
33560The medial(?)
31627ARE WE LIVING IN AN EPOCH OF SPECIAL VOLCANIC ACTIVITY?
31627Are we Living in an Epoch of Special Volcanic Activity?
31627Is there then, we may ask, any type of volcanic mountain on our globe comparable with those on the moon?
31627{ Bituminous sands and marls( 2) From 715 to 1420{ with marine shells of recent{ species(?)
19302How do you know where to look for them?
19302[ 20]_ By Henry Fairfield Osborn._ One is often asked the questions:"How do you find fossils?"
19302_ By Barnum Brown._"How do you know where to look for fossils?"
43232Andalusite schist(?).
43232Graywacke(?).
43232Greisen(?).
43232Luxulianite( igneous?).
43232The following forms are correct: Comma,; quotation marks""; apostrophe''; question mark?
43232Toscanite(?).
423565 ×?
42356Ammonites alternatus?
42356Cidaris Gaultina(?
42356Cidaris Gaultina(?
42356Perhaps it may be thought, Why dwell so much upon Hunstanton-- its hotel-- and its omnibus?
42356Trochocyathus(?)
42356Vertebra of Polyptychodon(?)
2923And the second is: How has it been perpetuated?
2923But what more have we to guide us in nine- tenths of the most important affairs of daily life than hypotheses, and often very ill- based ones?
2923How do you know that the laws of Nature are not suspended during the night?
2923How do you know that the man who really made the marks took the spoons?
2923The first is: How has organic or living matter commenced its existence?
2923What are those inductions and deductions, and how have you got at this hypothesis?
2923Your friend says to you,"But how do you know that?"
2923said his opponents;"but what do you know you may be doing when you heat the air over the water in this way?
47147*****[ Sidenote: Where do meteorites come from?]
47147From what part or parts of space do they come?
47147[ Sidenote: Could projectiles reach the earth from the moon?]
47147[ Sidenote: Do meteorites reach our atmosphere as clouds of gas or dust?]
47147[ Sidenote: Is there a periodic recurrence?]
47147k. pr.| 365||||Georgia,(?
47147|| 301||||||||579| 3o|MINAS GERAES(?
47147||||||||||536| 3n|SALINE TOWNSHIP, Sheridan| Nov. 15, 1898(?
14279Cambrian( with Huronian?).
14279Did it live in the sea, in fresh waters, or on the land?
14279Post- tertiary?
14279Was it fitted to live exclusively in water?
14279What was its usual diet?
14279What, then, is the principle upon which this sequence is based?
14279Why, for example, are the Sponges placed below the Corals; these below the Sea- urchins; and these, again, below the Shell- fish?
14279| a. Fucoidal| Huronian|| Sandstone of Sweden| Formation?
14279| d._ Oldhamia_||| Slates of Ireland.||| e. Conglomerates and||| and Sandstones of||| Sutherlandshire?
14279| limestone 150 feet| are_ Ceratites_ B. Werfen beds, base| thick, alternating|_ cassianus_, of Upper Trias?
35433Is it not natural then to imagine that there must have been Volcanos near this spot, long before the formation of the mountain of Pausilipo?
35433May not the quantity of nitre, with which all these places abound, account in some measure for such extreme cold?
35433May there not therefore have been many others, of such ancient dates as to be out of the reach of history[43]?
35433[ 44] May not the air in countries replete with sulphur be more impregnated with electrical matter than the air of other soils?
43320And what was that poem about, Critias?
43320Who can stand before his indignation? 43320 And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? 43320 Are there any evidences of an old land mass on this part of the floor of the Atlantic? 43320 How then is it possible that an eruption could occur under such circumstances? 43320 Solon, hearing this, said,''What do you mean?'' 43320 We ask ourselves the questions, what becomes of the void that is being formed in the interior? 43320 What form of new catastrophe does it invite? 43320 Why then is it that hitherto many places have been very subject to these convulsions which do not present any such remarkable differences from others? 51021 ( 2, Sandstone and shale, eight feet-- erect_ Calamites_; 3, Gray sandstone, seven feet; 4, Gray shale, four feet-- an erect coniferous(?) 51021 ( Cordæoxylon?) 51021 1, Shale and sandstone-- plants with_ Spirorbis_ attached; rain- marks(?). 51021 B, Do., apex of stem(?) 51021 But it may be asked,Are there no real examples of fossil Algæ?"
51021H^2, Fruit of the same, K,_ Cardiocarpum_(?
51021May it not have been a survivor of an old arboreal flora extending back even to the Laurentian itself?
51021Syringoxylon mirabile?
51021Upper white chalk of Europe; Fort Pierre group of America; coal- measures of Nanaimo?
51021_ c_,_ Lepidodendron binerve_( Sydney),_ d_,_ Asterophyllites foliosa_(_?_)( Sydney).
59611--Sind die Stoerungen in der Lagerung der Kreide an de Ostküste von Jasmund( Ruegen) durch Faltungen zu erklären?
59611ARE THERE TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS?
59611Do I speak too positively in condemnation of the results of years of earnest investigation?
59611How then is it possible to do otherwise than accept these statements as satisfactory and final?
59611The question asked in the beginning,"Are there traces of glacial man in the Trenton gravels?"
59611The question to be discussed is simply this,--is the evidence satisfactory that works of art have been found in these gravels?
59611What are the criteria for the recognition of distinct glacial epochs, if such there were?
59611What constitutes a glacial epoch as distinct from other glacial epochs?
59611What then is the age of this important series?
59611Why then, asks Professor Geikie, do we not have such a climate now?
59611Yet is there really nothing in it all, in the theories, the observations, the collections and the books?
50957An able critic asks,''Can, then, ice walk up- hill?''
50957And does the appearance of the action of fire upon their surface imply the intervention of intelligence?
50957Are we to believe that these never existed; or that, having existed, they have been obliterated by subsequent denudations?
50957But where is it?
50957But why are the southeast trade- winds of the Atlantic stronger than the northeast?
50957But, again, why is this?
50957Could not Snowdonia protect the heart of its own domain?''
50957Granite Eskdale, Cumberland 1,286 64 Granite Criffel, Galloway........ Flint Antrim(?)
50957It would have supplied Thomas Carlyle''s want when he wrote,"Why did not somebody teach me the stars and make me at home in the starry heavens?"
50957Why, then, did it carry no stones with it?
2936Are all the grandest and most interesting problems which offer themselves to the geological student essentially insoluble?
2936How are the Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the Lias?
2936Is he in the position of a scientific Tantalus-- doomed always to thirst for a knowledge which he can not obtain?
2936Is paleontology able to succeed where physical geology fails?
2936Is such a universal history, then, to be regarded as unattainable?
2936On what amount of similarity of their faunae is the doctrine of the contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians based?
2936Or to turn to the higher Vertebrata-- in what sense are the Liassic Chelonia inferior to those which now exist?
2936and what is the evidence on which those fundamental propositions demand our assent?
2936what are the fundamental assumptions upon which they all logically depend?
34502What think you,he writes,"of ships in the same formation, nay, a_ house_?
34502After all, did we not come from an ourang, seeing that man is of the Old World, and not from the American type of anthropomorphous mammalia?"
34502But was this really the date of the interment?
34502But, suppose we concede this, does it amount to more than the admission that he was human?
34502His eyes, in fact, were his only trouble and who is there who has not got his own"thorn in the flesh"?
34502If we had met with it in Madeira and nowhere else, or the cowslip, should we not have voted them true species?
34502The two geologists worked hard, for who could be idle in such a country as this?
34502Was the cross which Constantine saw in the heavens a more clear indication of the approaching conversion of a wavering world?"
34502What inferences, then, can be drawn from this skull as to the intellectual rank of primæval man?
34502Which, then, was henceforth to be his home?
38013_ And Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour and went his way._It is often asked"why do animals become extinct?"
38013And if a blow from an irate ostrich is sufficient to fell a man, what must have been the kicking power of an able- bodied Moa?
38013Did they devour everything large enough to be eaten throughout their habitat, and then fall to eating one another?
38013How much of what we term intelligence could such a creature possess-- what was the extent of its reasoning powers?
38013If, it was said, these animals have been spared, why not others?
38013Other footprints there are in this prison- yard; the great round"spoor"of the mammoth, the hoofs of a deer, and the paws of a wolf(?
38013The question is often asked-- How long ago did this or that animal live?
38013This may take the form of a wish to know how a millionaire made his first ten cents, or it may lead to the questions-- What is the oldest animal?
38013WHY DO ANIMALS BECOME EXTINCT?
38013What do we find among Dinosaurs?
38013Why not a legendary bison that has increased with years of story- telling?
38013Why?
38013XII WHY DO ANIMALS BECOME EXTINCT?
38013and, What did this, our primeval and many- times- removed ancestor, look like?
38013or, What is the first known member of the great group of backboned animals at whose head man has placed himself?
44530''Can you,''he asked,''name one book of any value on a religious subject written by the Scottish clergy?''
44530''Who,''writes Robertson to Gibbon,''is Mr. Hayley?
44530And the Succession?
44530At length, when the last of the withdrawing party had disappeared, there ran from bench to bench a hurried, broken whispering,--"How many?
44530But why established?
44530Candlish?''
44530Did it abide with the Free Church or the residuary Establishment?
44530If such rapid supersession be the law, who can expect in departing to leave footprints in the annals of so shifting a science?
44530Little wonder, therefore, is it that Carlyle should ask,''I would fain know the history of Scotland; who can tell it me?
44530The unfortunate rupture closed by the very pointed question by Chalmers,''Which of you could direct Hugh Miller?''
44530When Leighton and Burnet went into the west in 1670 to try and induce the people to recognise the establishment of Charles, what did they find?
44530Where is the security that the money of this fund will not, as the reverend Principal[ Hill of St. Andrews] said, be used for very different purposes?
44530Who can be a fixed star?
44530Why, he asks, should it be regarded as necessary to promulgate the truths of geology when those of astronomy have been withheld?
44530Why, then, are these men suffered to exercise, and that so exclusively, one of the Church''s most sacred privileges?
44530Wranglings or harangues after the manner of Scott''s Habbakuk Mucklewrath?
44530how many?"
31899How may they reason soundly or plan sagely? 31899 Are there no substitutes for coal which we can use and can not export? 31899 By whom is it mined? 31899 Fuel oil, gasoline, lubricating oil-- for these three essentials are there no practical substitutes or other adequate sources? 31899 HAVE WE TOO MANY MINES AND MINERS? 31899 Has the last word been said as to the carburetor? 31899 Have all possible mixtures which will save oil and substitute cheaper and less rare combustibles therefor been tried? 31899 How can all be''free and equal''until they have free access to the same sources of self- help and an equal chance to secure them? 31899 How much coal is normally mined in this country? 31899 How much less could be mined if coal were conserved instead of wasted? 31899 The coal strike 1 National stock- taking 3 Coal as a national asset 3 Public responsibility 4 The miners''year 5 Have we too many mines and miners? 31899 To what uses is it put? 31899 What better methods have been developed for using coal than those of ancient custom? 31899 What is its quality? 31899 What substitutes can be found for coal and how quickly may these be made available? 31899 Who gets it? 31899 Who is to blame that so small a supply is on the surface? 31899 Why burden our congested railroads with this traffic? 31899 Why have we so many mines working so many miners? 31899 Why should we live from day to day in so vital a matter as a fuel supply? 31899 Why strew our streets with this dirt? 42584 A fish or a lizard? 42584 Again, did certain long- legged Dinosaurs eventually give rise by evolution to the running birds, ostriches, emeus, etc.? 42584 And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? 42584 Another question naturally suggests itself: Were they viviparous, or did they lay eggs like crocodiles? 42584 But the reader inquires,What is the nature of these creatures thus left stranded a thousand miles from either ocean?
42584He concludes with the question,''To which of the recognised classes of created beings can this huge rover of the ocean be referred?''
42584He says,"Did not learned men too hold, till within the last twenty- five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster?
42584How came they in the limestone of Kansas, and were they denizens of land?"
42584How did they get drowned?
42584How, then, could it reach or pick up anything lying on the ground?
42584No reptiles of the present day are capable of masticating their food; how, then, could he venture to assign it to a reptile?
42584Shall we call this earth- drama a tragedy or a comedy?
42584The question therefore arises-- Was this tortoise a creature of the imagination, or was the idea of it drawn from a living reality?
42584Then why not sea- serpents?
42584This elaborate apparatus must have been of some special use; the question is-- What service or services did it perform?
42584Was there ever an age of dragons?
42584We can, however, well imagine some of our readers asking,"Can these dry bones live?"
42584Were they nocturnal in their habits, wandering about by night, and taking their rest by day?
42584Were they related to ancient crocodiles?
42584What better lesson could the master have given the pupil to help him to remember his"Law of Correlation"?
42584What, then, was the consequence?
42584Who shall ever see them lit up with the same unmitigated enthusiasm again?
42584Would it not be an advantage for them to have the power of seeing their finny prey whether near or far?
42584those represented by crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and turtles?"
42584weight in some three or four months?
47648Again, the reader may ask, by what line of reasoning do we conclude that these stratified rocks are so exceedingly ancient?
47648But how may we separate the Proterozoic rocks from the Archeozoic?
47648By what process of reasoning do we conclude that arms of the early Cambrian sea reached across eastern and western North America?
47648CHAPTER XVII EVOLUTION OF PLANTS Have we any knowledge regarding the beginning of life on our planet?
47648Do the most ancient known rocks show that animal life existed during Archeozoic time?
47648From what original stock did they branch off?
47648Have we any definite idea of the relations of land and water in North America during the first or Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era?
47648How can it be proved that certain rock formations in various parts of the earth originated practically at the same time?
47648How can the geologist assign a rock formation of any part of the earth to a particular age in the history of the earth?
47648How do crystals develop such regularity of form?
47648How do we know that the Taconic disturbance took place toward the close of the Ordovician period?
47648How does the geologist determine the actual amount of displacement, especially in the case of a large fault in stratified rocks?
47648How fast do glaciers flow?
47648How is the geological birthday of a mountain range determined?
47648How long ago did the Ice Age end?
47648How, then, do we reconcile these two seemingly paradoxical statements?
47648If this great lake is a cut- off arm of the sea, with no outlet, how do we explain the fact that its salinity is much less than that of the ocean?
47648Is there real danger that our supply of coal will soon run out?
47648It may occur to the reader to ask, how long ago did the Grenville ocean exist?
47648What are some of the causes leading up to such a situation?
47648What are some of the processes of nature whereby rocks are weathered?
47648What are the salient points in the very early history of the earth( not including the evolution of organisms) shown by these very ancient rocks?
47648What becomes of the materials eroded by the ice?
47648What happens to a very hard, resistant igneous rock like granite when attacked by the weather?
47648What has been the source of these salts?
47648What is the bearing of this nebular hypothesis upon the early geological history of the earth?
47648What is the nature of the evidence as recorded in the rocks which lead us to conclude that the Proterozoic era lasted such a vast length of time?
47648What is the source of the steam and other gases or vapors?
47648What is their ancestry?
47648When did animal life begin on the earth, and what were the first forms like?
47648Where are we to draw the line between the higher apes and the lowest forms of man?
47648Where such rocks extend far down from or near the surface, how does rain water descend?
47648Why are the very early Paleozoic strata so rich in fossils, while the immediately preceding Proterozoic rocks show so few?
33925After all these changes do you not want to know what happened next?
33925And how was it made?
33925Are shells in the sea being covered up with clay,--with mud,--and more shellfish living on the top of that; and then, are they, too, being covered up?
33925As before, what is happening to- day?
33925But how have these great masses of flints been swept along?
33925But where did the silica come from?
33925Can the land have been down under the sea; and have sea waves washed the stones along?
33925Does sand on a sea shore ever become hard like rock, so that shells buried in it are found afterwards in hard rock?
33925For what does it tell us?
33925How are they there?
33925How did they get there?
33925How do these beds rise up again, so that we find them with their sea shells in the quarry?
33925How do we know this?
33925How do we know this?
33925How?
33925If it goes on long enough--?
33925Is limestone being made anywhere to- day, and are shells being shut up in it?
33925Now what is the chalk?
33925Now, do we anywhere to- day find these tiny shells in such masses as to build up rocks?
33925Now, have we any deposits formed at that time in the Isle of Wight?
33925So that in years to come they will be found in layers of clay and stone like those we have been looking at in quarry and sea cliff?
33925The Upper Crioceras Group( 46 ft.), like the Lower, contains bands of Crioceras?
33925Then where were they formed?
33925Were there no birds?
33925What about the clays and the limestone?
33925What becomes of all the mud the streams and rivers are carrying down into the sea?
33925What immense rush of water can have spread these flints 30 feet deep along a river valley?
33925What is the meaning of this extension of the alluvium away from the course of the river out to the sea at Sandown?
33925What kind of animals?
33925What kind of trees grew in the country the river came from?
33925What was the country like south of this?
33925Where did the mud come from?
33925[ Illustration:_ Photo by J. Milman Brown, Shanklin._] CULVER CLIFFS-- HIGHLY INCLINED CHALK STRATA Now, what are flints, and how were they formed?
34350( Greensand formation?)
34350( New Red or Trias?
34350), consisting of_ Cypris_,_ Unio_(?
34350--_Gentleman''s Magazine._***** SHALL WE KEEP THE CRYSTAL PALACE AND HAVE RIDING AND WALKING IN ALL WEATHERS, AMONG FLOWERS, SCULPTURE, AND FOUNTAINS?
343507.,"page 18 changed"( Green- sand formation?)"
34350And is there an undercurrent of heavier saline water annually flowing outwards?
34350But what do we find?
34350Carboniferous strata and red sandstone( New Red?).
34350Elytron of_ Buprestis_?
34350Has any wreck been left behind of the strata removed?
34350If not, in what manner is the excess of salt disposed of?
34350In what manner then can such irregularities be due to original deposition?
34350May we then conclude, that the schists suffered denudation before they were invaded by granite?
34350Molar of_ Microlestes_?
34350Of what materials is the earth composed, and in what manner are these materials arranged?
34350Part of the trail of a( Chelonian?)
34350Red sandstone with ornithichnites( new red or trias?)
34350Upper chalk:--chalk marl of Pyrenees?
34350What more can we desire?
34350_ Bacillaria vulgaris?_ Fig.
34350_ Cyclas_(_ Pisidium_)_ amnica_, var.?
34350_ Eggs of Batrachians(?)
34350_ Eggs of gasteropodous mollusk?_ Lower beds of Old Red, Ley''s Mill, Forfarshire.]
34350_ Fucoids and eggs of gasteropodous mollusk?_ Lower Old Red, Fife.]
34350_ a._ Mark of nail?]
34350_ a._ View of inner side?
34350_ a._ View of inner side?
34350_ a_), is more modern than all the other rocks of the island?
34350_ b._ same, outer side?
34350and whether living forms corresponding with the fossils might not yet be dredged up from seas hitherto unexamined?
34350into"( Greensand formation?)"
34350{ reddish and} 800?}
14179But has the earth already undergone so great changes, and is it not yet arrived at the period of its perfection?
14179But is it really so?
14179But this is right; for, how are false opinions to be corrected, except in being opposed by the opinions of other men?
14179But why seek for this compensation in the_ rest_ or immobility of things?
14179But, if we are to suppose much to have been wasted, where shall we stop in this process of restoring continents?
14179But, on what can they be fed?
14179Car comment ne resteroit- il aucun vestige de cette montagne?
14179Ces laves n''avoient pu être formées où je les voyois; elles étoient venues d''ailleurs; mais d''où et comment?
14179D''où peuvent donc provenir ces masses roulées de granites qui se trouvent jetés et répandus sur le penchant et au bas de ce mont?
14179Do they never waste?
14179Here a question occurs; Has this valley been made by the operation of the river itself, or has it been the effect of other causes?
14179How then have they become separated peaks?
14179How, for example, accumulate the_ debris_ of the Breven, as we have now seen, upon the summit of that mountain, by the force of running water?
14179How, for example, could a perpendicular mountain, such as St. Kilda, have been produced in the ocean?
14179Mais quand ont- ils été détachées?
14179Now, upon that supposition, the appearances are inexplicable; for, How transport those materials, for example, across the lake of Geneva?
14179Or si, en élevant les filons, ce coin se trouve sans appui; comment s''est- il soutenu avant que les filons fussent formés?
14179Or, Is it to perpetuate the progress of that system, which, in other respects, appears to be contrived with so much wisdom?
14179Quelle est la cause qui les a redressés?
14179Was it the work of accident, or effect of an occasional transaction, that by which the sea had covered our land?
14179What is become of that city?
14179What more can we require?
14179Why suppose perfection in the want of change?
14179doit- on considérer le Mont- Blanc ou telle autre de ces aiguilles, comme un énorme crystal?
14179or how reconcile those opposite intentions in the same cause?
14179ou seroit- ce la même révolution qui les auroit séparés du continent, et qui a opéré le désordre que nous voyons dans ces îsles volcanique?
14179« Mais jusqu''à quel point la crystallization a- t- elle contribué á déterminer ces formes pyramidales?
14179étoient- ils déjà isolés lorsque les feux ont commencé la formation des îsles ponces?
34192Are you going?
34192But how,the person addressed may retort,"can a mass which you assume to be viscous exist under similar conditions?
34192Can the pressure produce the cleavage?
34192How,I have asked,"can the oblique structure persist across the lines of greatest differential motion throughout the length of the glacier?"
34192How,demands the antagonist of the sliding theory,"can a secondary glacier exist upon so steep a slope?
34192After twelve hours we find the stake fifteen inches distant from its first position: I would ask Mr. Thomson how did it get there?
34192And how can the veins run, as they are admitted to do,_ across the lines of maximum sliding_ from their origin throughout the glacier to its end?
34192But what is it which thus moves?
34192Can it be doubted that this Savoyard priest had a premonition of the Conservation of Force?
34192Can it be supposed that the particles of ice execute a motion of this kind?
34192Can it be that the superior exposure is more favourable to the formation of the magnetic oxide of iron?
34192Can it be then that the ice exhibits a similar deportment?
34192Does not all this sound more like a fairy tale than the sober conclusions of science?
34192Had not their motion through the air something to do with the shape of these hailstones?
34192Has it been liquefied and re- frozen?
34192He asks himself, what will be the effect of pressure upon a mass containing such plates confusedly mixed up in it?
34192How are the moraines to be accounted for?
34192How have the blocks vanished that once loaded the moraines near the Tacul?
34192How many inches are there in 192,000 miles?
34192How, in fine, does the end of a glacier become its end?
34192I asked myself why I deviated from my original intention?
34192I turned to Bennen, and said,"Shall we try the Jungfrau?"
34192I was in exceedingly good condition-- could I not reach the summit alone?
34192If it be viscous, what prevents it from rolling down?"
34192If sixty steps cost an hour, what would be the cost of two hundred?
34192Imagine a wide strand covered by a tide which holds such powder in suspension:[B] how will it sink?
34192Is it meant that the molecules composing these sensible particles have re- arranged themselves?
34192Is it meant that these particles, each taken as a whole, were re- arranged after deposition?
34192Might not a solid rock by ages of pressure be folded as above?
34192Nature was dumb, but the question occurred,"Had she been addressed in the proper language?"
34192Professor Forbes states and answers the question,"How far a glacier is to be regarded as a plastic mass?"
34192The ancients had their spheral melodies, but have not we ours, which only want a sense sufficiently refined to hear them?
34192The question reminds one of the poet''s answer when asked whence was the Rhodora:--"Why wert thou there, O rival of the rose?
34192The question then was, supposing the two beams to be equal when the tube was filled with air, will the exhausting of the tube disturb the equality?
34192Was it necessarily softer than it is at present?
34192We ask ourselves how is the permanence of the glacier secured?
34192What effort of the imagination could transcend the realities here presented to us?
34192What is Light?
34192What is the agency which enables us to split Honister Crag, or the cliffs of Snowdon, into laminæ from crown to base?
34192What is the consequence of this?
34192What is this force?
34192What then can be the cause of the noise?
34192What then can the viscous theory mean apart from the facts?
34192What then is the meaning of viscosity or viscidity?
34192What was the physical condition of the rock when it was thus bent and folded like a pliant mass?
34192Whence come the blocks which we often find at the terminus of a glacier, and which we know belong to distant mountains?
34192Whence those frozen blossoms?
34192Why for æons wasted?
34192[ G] But you will ask, how, according to my view, does pressure produce this remarkable result?
34192[ Sidenote: VISCOUS THEORY;--WHAT IS IT?]
34192[ Sidenote:"SHALL WE TRY THE JUNGFRAU?"
34192_ C''est bien la route?_ demanded my companion.
34192why does it not slide down as an avalanche?"
32598And which is the brightest?
32598Another story?
32598Are n''t these interesting names?
32598Are they ready to leave it, and explore some other?
32598Can you see a small triangle made by three stars, of which Vega is one?
32598Could a flood have scattered them as they are found?
32598Could any substance become liquid with such a weight upon it, whatever heat it attained?
32598Could you think of a more interesting adventure than to find the oldest rocks that show the skeletons of horses?
32598Did you ever use a piece of chalk that scratched the black- board?
32598Do they feel now that they know their river?
32598Do we think often enough of this invisible, life- giving element upon which we depend so constantly?
32598Do you know the name of one great western river of which I am thinking?
32598Do you see a little dead fish in the water?
32598Do you see two rather bright stars about twenty- five degrees from the Pole?
32598Got it?
32598Have you ever seen a Sickle in the sky?
32598Have you ever seen a drop of pond water under a compound microscope?
32598Have you ever seen the chalk cliffs of Dover?
32598Have you ever visited a brick- yard?
32598Have you not seen little trees growing on a patch of moss which gets its food from the air and the rock to which it clings?
32598Have you the Cross now?
32598How can any one know that these bones belonged to a horse''s skeleton?
32598How do I know that?
32598How do I know that?
32598How does he look to you?
32598How long ago did those first islands appear above the sea?
32598How many years ago did the first Nile overflow take place?
32598How would you like to start a Star Club like ours?
32598Is Arcturus really red?
32598Is that a true story?
32598Is that a true story?
32598Is there any stream in your neighbourhood which has such peculiar ways?
32598KING COAL In this country, and in this age, who can doubt that coal is king?
32598Look where Orion is threatening to strike, and you will see a V. How many stars in that V?
32598More yellow than red?
32598Remember?)
32598See the arm and the club-- about seven stars in a rather poor curve-- beyond the red star Betelgeuse?
32598See the shield-- about four rather faint stars in a pretty good curve?
32598Some people believe this because Job said,"Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?"
32598THE EARTH_ PAGE THE GREAT STONE BOOK 3 THE FOSSIL FISH 6 THE CRUST OF THE EARTH 9 WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?
32598That red one at the top of the left branch of the V?
32598To illustrate, do you know the_ Pointers_?
32598WHAT BECOMES OF THE RAIN?
32598WHAT IS THE EARTH MADE OF?
32598Well, do you see the star in the beak of the Swan, or foot of the Cross?
32598What becomes of it all?
32598What becomes of the hot air that rises in a constant stream above the"Doldrums,"pushed up by the cooler trade winds that blow in from north and south?
32598What color is it?
32598What explanation is there for this extensive distribution of unsorted débris?
32598What if we children jumped the rope so hard as to break through the fragile shell, and drop out of sight in a sea of fiery metal, like melted iron?
32598What should we do for wells if it were not for the water basins that lie below the surface?
32598Where does the dust come from?
32598White?
32598Who can estimate the time it took to form those thick, solid layers of lime rock?
32598Who has not cut his foot on the broken shells that lie in the sandy bottom we walk on whenever we go into the surf to swim or bathe?
32598Who has not spent hours gathering dead shells which the tide has thrown up on the beach?
32598Why does n''t this list agree with yours?
32598Why is the trend of the great mountain systems almost always north and south?
32598Why should anybody be afraid of anything so lovely as Sirius?
32598You want another true story?
32598_ What is soil made of?_ Ground rock materials and decayed remains of animal and plant life.
32598_ What is soil?_ It is the surface layer of the earth''s crust, sometimes too shallow on the rocks to plough, sometimes much deeper.
32598_ What is the best garden soil?_ A mixture of sand, clay, and humus is called"loam."
42741*+{{ O. Longmynd, Huronian?
42741*+{{{ Acadian, etc.?
42741*+{{{ Menevian?
42741But is it really so?
42741But is this all?
42741But is this all?
42741But we have still to ask the old question,"Whence the atoms?"
42741But what becomes of the coal which is burnt in yielding the interest?
42741But what is chalk?
42741But what is the evidence of the deposits formed at this period?
42741But what was taking place meanwhile in the oceanic areas separating our plateaus?
42741Can we attribute the perfection of the watch to"accidental material operations"any more then the first effort to produce such an instrument?
42741Can we infer anything further as to the laws of creation from these Silurian multitudes of living things?
42741Do not all living things rise from a simpler to a more complex state?
42741Do they cease to be so when the man ceases to be conscious of them?
42741Do we know anything of law in the case of life?
42741Does this indicate direct genetic connection, or only like conditions in the external world correlated with likeness in the organic world?
42741For how can any one paint chaos, or give form and filling to the formless void?
42741Has the earth no earlier history?
42741How these several views accord with what we actually know as the result of scientific investigation?
42741Is it likely to have germinated in the brain of an ape?
42741Is it not certain, en the contrary, that the Fuegian is merely a degraded variety of the aboriginal American race?
42741Is it true, however, that the modern knowledge of nature tends to rob it of a spiritual First Cause?
42741Of what use were the Devonian forests?
42741Still future(?)
42741This digression prepares the way for the question: Was the Miocene period on the whole a better age of the world then that in which we live?
42741This"--wish that of the living whole No life may fail beyond the grave, Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul?"
42741To what does this point?
42741To what is this related, with reference to conditions of existence?
42741Was the length of the Mesozoic time equal to that of the Palæozoic?
42741We have to ask, What is gravitation itself, unless a mode of action of Almighty power?
42741Were there no herbs or trees to drink in the rains and flourish in the sunshine?
42741Were there no land animals to prowl along the low tidal flats in search of food?
42741Were they enormous birds?
42741Were they the first- born of land snails?
42741What can be more widely contrasted then a newly- born child and the small gelatinous spherule constituting the human ovum?
42741What does he give us in exchange?
42741What if there were still earlier plants, whose remains are still to be discovered?
42741What inhabitants have these forests?
42741What is implied in the idea of creation?
42741What is implied in the idea of evolution as applied to man?
42741What is the actual fact with regard to these animals, so confidently affirmed to resemble some not very remote ancestors of ours?
42741What mere animal ever had or could attain to such an experience?
42741What then are these oldest rocks deposited by the sea-- the first- born of the reign of the waters?
42741What were these portentous creatures-- bird, beast, or reptile?
42741What, then, is the actual statement of the theory of creation as it may be held by a modern man of science?
42741Who that saw them trodden under foot lay the reptile aristocracy of the Mesozoic could have divined their destiny?
42741Why, then, are so many men of science disposed to ignore altogether this view of the matter?
42741Would it not be absolutely impossible that man should have originated in such a country?
42741Yet why should these tyrants of creation so utterly disappear without waiting for us to make war on them?
42741and if so, of what possible use would it be in the struggle of a merely physical existence?
42741and what is the unknown third term which must have been the means of setting up these relations?
42741has not the history of the earth displayed a gradually increasing elevation and complexity?
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59074120 E) and several beetles(?
59074125),_ Pholidophorus_ and?
59074127--Scale of Ceratodus( Neoceratodus)=(?
59074142--Mandible of Phascolomys pliocenus, McCoy.=(?)
5907426.--Fossil Worm Tubes(?
5907453.== Cainozoic Ironstone with Leaves( Banksia?
5907454- 59(_?
5907476.--FOSSIL CRINOIDS.= A--(?)
5907485--LOWER PALAEOZOIC BRACHIOPODS.= A-- Orthis(?)
5907488 B),(?)
59074= Cretaceous Plants.--= An upper Cretaceous fern,(?)
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59074Another tooth having the same family relationship has been referred to_ Tomodus?
59074B--(?)
59074Cainozoic(?
59074Cainozoic(? Lower Pliocene), Yule Island, Papua.
59074Darwinula_, and_?
59074Fossil Worm- tubes:(?)
59074Hamilton, Victoria]= Cheilostomata( Cretaceous).--= Species of the genera(?)
59074In New Zealand the gigantic cirripede,_? Pollicipes aucklandicus_( Fig.
59074Murray River Cliffs, S. Australia] A clypeastroid,_ Peronella decagonalis_ has been described from the(?)
59074Of Cainozoic(?
59074Ordovician: S. Australia,(?)
59074Scale of_ Ceratodus?
59074Siliceous Skeleton of a living Sponge:(?)
59074They have been found, however, in the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, and in the(?
59074Victoria C--(?)
59074]= Lower Mesozoic Fishes.--= From the Lower Mesozoic sandstone(? Triassic) of Tasmania, two species of_ Acrolepis_ have been described, viz.,_ A.
59074_ Argiope wollumbillensis_,(?)
59074_ Clathrodictyon_(?)
59074_ Coleolus(?)
59074_ Dolium costatum_, allied to the"Fig- Shell"has been noted from the Cainozoic clays(?
59074_ Membranipora_ and(?)
59074_ Tomodus(?)
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28273Aweel, I wat, that I can; but what''s that?
28273Ay, twa; ye''ll be a traveller?
28273Ay; and ye''ll hae come a gude stap the day?
28273Could you have received it?
28273Honest man,she said,"do you see yon house wi''the chimla?"
28273I know nothing of you,I replied;"but I secured it from one who deemed himself authorized to receive the fare; was he so?"
28273Is the name of the drug,I asked,"iodine?"
28273Just so; and what say you, postman?
28273Know you aught of these?
28273O yes, great traveller, and very hungry: have I passed the best public- house?
28273On my own, to be sure; but have ye a public- house here?
28273That house with the farm- steadings and stacks beside it?
28273Was I not sure?
28273Weel, weel, it''s our appointed lot; an''if we have but health an''strength, an''the wark to do, why should we repine?
28273Ye''ll be seeking beasts,he said:"what price are cattle gi''en the noo?"
28273Ye''ll hae come,he said, addressing me,"wi''the great man last night?"
28273Ah, we have agreed hitherto, I replied; but I know not how we are to agree when you know who I am: are you sure you will not be frightened?
28273And who, asks the reader, is this Buchubai Hormazdji?
28273Are there any of my readers prepared to give it to them by means purely chemical?
28273But how account, on this hypothesis, for ramparts continuous, as in the case of Knock Farril, all round the hill?
28273But what was antiquity in connection with a Roman villa, to antiquity in connection with the Scuir of Eigg?
28273But why the agonized dancing on the sward of the inferior part of the reptile?--why its after painful writhing and wriggling?
28273Does that key anywhere exist, save in the keeping of Him who knows all and produced all, and to whom there is neither past nor future?
28273Eh, sirs!--an''are ye still a mason?"
28273Folster?"
28273Had it been really the work of that powerful Trolld to whom the poetry of the Scalds referred it?
28273Had they dangled in the remote past over some northern Ugolino?
28273How account for the occurrence of pebbles of so gigantic a size here?
28273How account for the phenomenon?
28273How account for the three storeys, and the apportionment of the floors, like those of a great city, each to its own specific class of society?
28273I had grown no older in my feelings or in my capacity of enjoyment; and what then was there to regret?
28273Or were they exterminated by some disease, that seized upon the families, not at once, but in succession?
28273Shall I confess that the circumstance gratified me exceedingly?
28273Was it a large or small fish, or of a high or low order?
28273Was there ever on earth a creature save man that could have played a fellow- mortal a trick at once so ingeniously and gratuitously cruel?
28273We see in the case of both exactly the same signs,--the dancing, the writhing, the wriggling; but are we to interpret them after the same manner?
28273Weel, what will young folk no come out o''?
28273Were the trilobites of the Silurian system,--at one period, as their remains testify, more than equally abundant,--creatures of similar habits?
28273What could the chain and bit of bread have meant?
28273What, asks the reader, was the character of the ancient denizen of the Palæozoic basin of which it had formed a part?
28273Who, for instance, could gather from the dentology of the M''Leods the passage in their history to which the cave of Frances bears evidence?
28273Why should the first floor be occupied by Osteolepides, the second by Cheiracanthi and their congeners, and the third by Coccostei?
28273Why, for instance, should the promontories be a mile awry?
28273Would it not run better thus?
28273_ I_ can propound the riddle, but who shall resolve it?
28273or the idle work of some wandering mechanic, whom chance, and whim, and leisure, had thrust upon such an undertaking?"
28273or was it the abode of penance chosen by some devoted anchorite of later days?
28273pointing to the straps of my knapsack;--"are ye a sodger on the Queen''s account, or ye''r ain?"
12861Are they to be concluded as proper to every part upon the globe, and as continual in the system of this earth?
12861Are we thus to measure eternity, that boundless thought, with those physical notions of ours which necessarily limit both space and time?
12861But because water is so generally found in bodies, and so necessarily in most of the operations of this world, why convert it into every other thing?
12861But how describe an operation which man can not have any opportunity of perceiving?
12861But how shall we describe a process which nobody has seen performed, and of which no written history gives any account?
12861But how shall we measure the decrease of our land?
12861But is it necessary, that every particular appearance, among minerals, should be thus explained in a general theory of the earth?
12861But is not this the case?
12861But with what are they to be filled?
12861But, Is a theory of the earth to be formed upon such a negative observation?
12861But, even suppose that this were the case, Could that explain a thousand other appearances which are inconsistent with the operation of water?
12861But, how can a naturalist who had ever seen a piece of Derbyshire marble, or any other shell limestone, make that supposition?
12861Does he mean to say, that it is not the purpose of this world to provide soil for plants to grow in?
12861Does he suppose that this soil is not moveable with the running water of the surface?
12861For, How can this take place within a closs cavity in the mineral regions?
12861From what explosion will be explained the blocks of granite which are found upon the Jura, and which must have come from the mass of_ Mont Blanc_?
12861Has the globe within it such an active power as fits it for the renovation of that part of its constitution which may be subject to decay?
12861Here is a mountain which will rank with the most primitive of the earth; But why?
12861If this philosopher had before no opinion of subterraneous fire, as instrumental in that operation, How comes he now to change that former opinion?
12861If, again, the land naturally decays, Why employ so extraordinary a power, in order to hide a former continent of land, and puzzle man?
12861Look into the sources of our mineral treasures; ask the miner, from whence has come the metal into his vein?
12861Now, What are those effects?
12861Or how imagine that, for which, perhaps, there are not proper data to be found?
12861Or may it not be also considered as an organized body?
12861Our author might have added, that I have also said--_we see no prospect of an end_; but what has all this to do with the idea of eternity?
12861Pourquoi toutes les montagnes devroient- elles être le produit des eaux, seulement parce qu''il y en a quelques- unes qui annoncent cette origine_?
12861Seroit- ce son ciment calcaire ou marneux par les mêmes raisons, qui font changer la marne en silex?
12861Strata composed in this manner have been again consolidated; and now the question is, By what means?
12861The term_ vegetation_ may as well be employed for the explanation of those appearances: But what would now be said of such an explication?
12861Therefore, may not the origin of both be similar_?
12861This is, From whence should come the matter with which the numberless cavities in those masses are to be filled?
12861What then are we to conclude upon the whole?
12861What then does our author mean, in condemning that comprehensive view which I have endeavoured to take of nature?
12861What then is it that is here meant to be disputed?
12861[ Note 28: But what is this power by which matter is to be forced from the bottom of the sea to the top of the mountains?
12861and, Does he think that it is not necessary to replace that soil which is removed?
12861and, Is there any particular in this mountain, that may not be shown in others of which the origin is not in any degree doubtful?
12861and, because we see not the beginning of created things, Are we to conclude that those things which we see have always been, or been without a cause?
12861but, How far any one particular theory might explain a phenomenon better than another?
47119Why,he asks,"did not this mineral matter come down in like quantity all the time of the deposit of the brown clay which underlies it?
47119; Alpine{ Lands(?
47119And how, we may ask, could the postulated geographical changes bring about the glaciation of the mountainous tracts on the Pacific sea- board?
47119And if they did not sail eastwards, what became of them?
47119And what about the second glacial epoch?
47119And what evidence of such local glaciation might we now expect to find?
47119And who will take his place in the Long Island?
47119Are we then to suppose that all the lands within the Northern Hemisphere were extensively and contemporaneously upheaved?
47119Are we to infer the former existence of an extremely lofty range of Bohemian Alps which has since vanished?
47119Are we to suppose that once more the lands were greatly uplifted, and that convenient Isthmus of Panama was again depressed?
47119Are we to suppose, then, that it flowed in from the south or south- west?
47119Are we, then, prepared to admit that the close of the Ice Age coincided with the dawn of Egyptian civilisation?
47119At what horizon, then, does this steppe- fauna make its appearance?
47119But how could this be, seeing that the Criffel and Cumbrian erratics occur side by side in one and the same deposit?
47119But putting that consideration aside, what evidence have we that the Isthmus of Panama was submerged during the glacial epoch?
47119But why should this wind have propelled the floating- ice so far and no further in an easterly direction?
47119Can a big ice- sheet push down the earth''s crust by its weight?
47119Can the weight of a great ice- sheet shift the earth''s centre of gravity, and, if so, to what extent?
47119Did the ice, as we might have supposed, come out of the mountain- valleys and overflow the low country?
47119Did the last great ice- sheet reach as far south as its predecessor?
47119Did the reader ever indulge in such a mountain- bath?
47119Did these also come at a different time?
47119Did they all melt away immediately when they came into the ice- laden current that flowed towards the south- east?
47119Having learned that no truly abysmal rocks enter into the composition of our continents, of what kind of rocks, we may ask, are the islands composed?
47119He speaks of cold and warm currents, but where do we find any traces of the marine organisms which must have abounded in those waters?
47119How are these to be accounted for?
47119How can this be done by the land- ice theory?
47119How do the supporters of the"earth- movement hypothesis"explain this remarkable succession of climatic changes?
47119How is it then, if the bottom beds be really of Silurian and the igneous rocks of Old Red Sandstone age, that a gap is said to exist between them?
47119How is the existing distribution of land and water to be accounted for?
47119How, then, can we explain the appearance of local glaciers in these latitudes during Mesozoic times?
47119In what region under the sun does anything like that happen at the present day?
47119Is it possible, then, to explain the climatic vicissitudes of the Pleistocene period by means of such oscillations?
47119Now what do all these appearances mean?
47119Now, I ask, is it possible to believe that a sheet of ice of that thickness actually pressed down the crust of the earth for not less than 3600 feet?
47119These beds have yielded remains of elk(_ Cervus alces_), rhinoceros( species not determined), a small fox(?
47119Upon what kind of surface did it fall?
47119What are_ roches moutonnées_ but the rounded relics of what were formerly rough uneven tors, projecting bosses, and prominent rocks?
47119What areas have been covered with perennial snow and ice?
47119What could have blocked its passage in that direction?
47119What is the meaning of these intercalated glacial accumulations?
47119What might not be expected to happen were the Gulf Stream to be excluded from northern regions?
47119What now, let us ask, are the outstanding features of the coast- lines of the Atlantic Ocean?
47119What was it that defined the southern limits of these northern boulders?
47119What will archæologists say to this conclusion?
47119What would result from such an unhappy change?
47119What, in the first place, is greywacké?
47119What, then, it may be asked, were the causes which allowed of the much broader distribution of species in former ages?
47119Where are the raised sea- beaches which must have marked the retreat of the sea?
47119Where did the warm wind come from?
47119Where do we encounter any organic relics that might help us to map out the zones of shallow and deep water?
47119Where does all this sand come from?
47119Where, then, did the ice come from?
47119Where, then, we are asked, is there any evidence in Palæozoic, Mesozoic, or Cainozoic strata of former widespread glacial conditions?
47119Why are coast- lines in some regions extremely regular, while elsewhere they are much indented?
47119Why does n''t he put his money in the savings- bank, and by- and- by die and leave it to those who come after him?
47119With such a map could our meteorologists infer what the climatic conditions must have been?
47119_ The Extent of Glaciation in Europe._ To what extent, then, let us ask, has Europe been glaciated?
47119and does the crust rise again as the ice melts away?
47119caprea_[?
47119cinerea_), hazel, poplar(?
42043[ 51] But what would be the result if we only extend this idea to its logical conclusion? 42043 = These things must be first explained.= Has anything happened to our world that will explain them? 42043 = We call it creation.= Can any one find a better name? 42043 According to Dana, all these must have met with aspeedy burial after death"--perhaps before, who knows?
42043Accordingly I ask,= How much time is needed= to account for the facts before us on the basis of Uniformity?
42043And= if one example, why not a million=?
42043As has been said, How could the origin of nature be contrary to nature?
42043But I ask: What kind of organic remains will we get from these modern deposits?
42043But how did they come to shift to the Tropics so many millions of years before the palms, etc., of the Tertiaries thought it time to do the same?
42043But if this be granted, we must then inquire, What was its nature?
42043But let us take some of the"late"Tertiary and Pleistocene mammals, which can not be distinguished from living species, and how do we fare?
42043But what other class of the animal kingdom will not point us a similar lesson?
42043But where have these fellows kept themselves during all the intervening ages while the continents were deep under the ocean time and time again?
42043But whither shall we turn to avoid finding similar phenomena?
42043But why should it be necessary for us to positively settle the question as to just how far back in geological time Man actually did live?
42043CHAPTER V TURNED UPSIDE DOWN How many of us have ever seen a mountain fall?
42043Did the elements continue in the_ status quo_ all these uncounted millions of years?
42043Do we understand all natural processes?
42043Does it come of good stock, or is its family low and not very respectable?
42043Does memory guide these little things in their wonderful division of labor?
42043Have we already a sufficiently broad knowledge of the rocks of the world to decide such a question?
42043How can it be improved?
42043How could the origin of present forms and conditions be in any way at variance with the laws by which these forms or conditions are maintained?
42043How could this bone breccia have been accumulated?...
42043I should think so; but then what becomes of this doctrine of uniformity?
42043If I am now asked: What do the rocks have to tell us, in view of the fact that they refuse to testify to a life succession?
42043If, as this illustrious author says,"The seas had not been depopulated,"what would he have us think they were doing?
42043In common honesty will a short eternity itself satisfy the stern problem before us?
42043Is it possible that all the plants and animals of the Tertiaries and the Pleistocene may have really lived together in the same world after all?
42043Our first and most natural inquiry is, What is it that leads scientists to think so?
42043The climate had not changed a bit: how did they come to scent the coming"Glacial Age"so much earlier than their more highly organized fellows?
42043This fault has a vertical displacement of more than 15,000 feet(?
42043Were they forming no deposits all these intervening ages that the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic were being piled up?
42043What fact or facts have been omitted from Part II that should be| included in a true, safe, induction regarding the past of our| globe?
42043What has Geology to do with all this?
42043What has been its surroundings?
42043What is its family history?
42043What is there to hinder us from believing that they all lived there together in that olden time?
42043What is your opinion of Part I as an exposure of the Evolution| Theory?
42043What kind of evidence can it be?
42043Where then can we find a stratified or bedded structure now being formed over the ocean bottom?
42043Who has not read of their untainted meat now making food for dogs and wolves?
42043Why did the crinoids and polyp- corals suspend business from"Jurassic times"to the"recent,"merely to accommodate a modern theory?
42043Why did they form no deposits during the Cretaceous, Eocene, Miocene or Pliocene ages?
42043Why does the one build up claws and the other brain cells?
42043Will some one please give us a reasonable explanation of why the lion, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, and elephant shifted from England to the tropics?
42043Would it not be economy of energy to correlate the two together?
42043Would the production of a few billion such beginnings of protoplasm be any less''natural''than of one alone?
42043and if so, how did they receive notice that the Triassic period was at last ended, and that it was time for them to begin work again?
42043and what its extent?
42043or why are not the rocks containing their fossils as"recent"as any deposits on the globe?
6322How can those be trusted who know not how to blush?
6322), which is equally favourable to the plantain, the orange- tree, the coffee- tree, the apple, the apricot, and corn?
6322*(* Is not the Cecropia concolor of Willdenouw a variety of the Cecropia peltata?)
6322*(* Is this the Laurus cinnamomoides of Mutis?
6322Are these pierced rocks hollowed out by the impulse of a current?
6322As the first person is known by an u, the second is designated by an m, the third by an i; maz, thou art; muerepuec araquapemaz?
6322But it may be asked, is the name Parias or Pariagotos, a name merely geographical?
6322But what is the cause of the luminous phenomena which are observed in the Cuchivano?
6322But why, after having knocked one of us down, was he satisfied with simply stealing a hat?
6322Can it be said that the numbers of the Europeans do not extend beyond ten, because we stop after having formed a group of ten units?
6322Can these flames be attributed to the decomposition of water, entering into contact with the pyrites dispersed through the schistose marl?
6322Did motives supposed to be favourable to religion, give rise to this extraordinary theory?
6322Do grottoes belong to every formation, or to that period only when organized beings began to people the surface of the globe?
6322Do these animals come from the bottom of the sea, which is perhaps in these latitudes some thousand fathoms deep?
6322Does its existence prove, that, at some very distant period, the Guanches had connexions with other nations originally from Asia?
6322Does not this fact prove that the bread- fruit might flourish in Calabria, Sicily, and Granada?
6322Does the basis fall on the outside of the curve that I assume?)
6322Does the periodical recurrence of this great phenomenon depend upon the state of the atmosphere?
6322Does this unknown cause act at an immense depth; or does this chemical action take place in secondary rocks lying on granite?
6322Has its name any connexion with those of the cavern and the bird?
6322How can we be expected to know completely the flora of so vast an extent of country?
6322How can we conceive the migration of plants through regions now covered by the ocean?
6322How has this tree been transplanted to Teneriffe, where it is by no means common?
6322In what manner ought we to consider the effect of the friction, or that of the shock?
6322Is it a slight augmentation of temperature which favours the phosphorescence?
6322Is it in fact a reflected or a direct light?
6322Is the atmospheric constitution changed?
6322Is this formation of the same date as that of Punta Araya and Cumana?
6322May there not be in this place some sunken volcanic islet, more easterly still than Barbadoes?)
6322May we believe the existence of those blue eyes of the Boroas of Chile and Guayanas of Uruguay; represented to us as nations of the race of Odin?
6322Must it on this account be admitted, that the Caribbees are an entirely distinct race?
6322Must we admit that emanations which reflect white light, and seem to have some analogy with the tails of comets, are less abundant at certain periods?
6322Should we conclude from this position that they are of more recent formation than the lithoid basaltic lava, which contains olivine and augite?
6322The phalaena which produces it is probably analogous with that of the provinces of Gua[?
6322Was it built by the Romans on the ruins of a Greek or Phoenician edifice?
6322Was this extraordinary refrigeration owing to some descending current?
6322Was this kind of head- dress taken for a turban?
6322We ask at Teneriffe what is become of the Guanches, whose mummies alone, buried in caverns, have escaped destruction?
6322We chose, instead of the direct road, that by the mountains of the Cocollar*(* Is this name of Indian origin?
6322We inquire at the isle of Cuba, at St. Domingo, and in Jamaica, where is the abode of the primitive inhabitants of those countries?
6322Were they albinos, such as have been found heretofore in the isthmus of Panama?
6322Were they of the same race as those Indians of a less tawny hue, whom M. Bonpland and myself saw at Esmeralda, near the sources of the Orinoco?
6322What are the duties of humanity, national honour, or the laws of their country, to men stimulated by the speculations of sordid interest?
6322What becomes of those precious stones, which are sought for at the extremities of the globe?
6322What is the substance, which, for thousands of years, keeps up this combustion, sometimes so slow, and at other times so active?
6322Why do the historians of the sixteenth century affirm that the first navigators saw white men with fair hair at the promontory of Paria?
6322Why is the Iron Tower called in the country by the name of Hercules?
6322], e finel[?
6322and that it is difficult for him to establish among them a governador, an alcalde, or a fiscal, who may serve him as an interpreter?
6322and that the Guaraons and the Tamanacs, whose languages have an affinity with the Caribbee, have no bond of relationship with them?
6322in that land where nature has covered every mountain and every valley with her marvels?
6322or do they make distant voyages in shoals?
6322or is it inflamed hydrogen that issues from the cavern of Cuchivano?
6322or is it that a new form of disease develops itself among individuals whose susceptibility is highly increased?
6322or is this last of Spanish origin?
6322or upon something which the atmosphere receives from without, while the earth advances in the ecliptic?
6322why art thou sad?
46658*** Have you heard?
46658--And how long did this last?
46658--And what else can we do?
46658--And what will you do now?
46658--And what will you do?
46658--And where did they all go?
46658--And where did you go?
46658--And where do they live?
46658--And why did you return so soon, Vincenza?
46658--And you have come back here, I ask him?
46658--And you have come back?
46658--And your family, I ask?
46658--Are they buried?
46658--Did they all seem to lose their mind?
46658--Did you run away from there in that terrible night?
46658--Did your house fall down?
46658--Have you found your things again?
46658--Have you your diploma, Vincenza, I ask her?
46658--How many died here in Ottaiano?
46658--How many?
46658--New born babies?
46658--Out of the window?
46658--Rebuild it all?
46658--Was this place, fine?
46658--What they''ll give me to do?
46658--Where could I go?
46658--Will you remain here?
46658--With what?
46658And can it last?
46658And do you know in what manner?
46658And how has this possibly happened?
46658And must it last?
46658Are we not feeling, perhaps, the earth trembling under our steps?
46658Are you mad?
46658At least have you saved your family?
46658But did Resina, Portici, and Torre del Greco, ever live?
46658But what will happen in the night what will happen to- morrow?
46658But what, and who will save to- morrow man and his house, man and his descendence, man and his bread, man and his field?
46658But why?
46658Did these windows, these doors ever open?
46658Do n''t you see?
46658Do n''t you see?
46658Has Ottaiano then been destroyed only by the fall of lapillus and stones?
46658Has it snowed on the fields, on the trees?
46658Has not our M. Fedele spread terror every where?
46658Have you seen all those men on the square?
46658Here all of us possess much or little land, will you take from us also the hope of redeeming it for our children?
46658How can one abandon one''s own country?
46658How could we hope to build up again, if we went away?
46658How long will all this last?
46658How long will it take?
46658How long will they still remain?
46658How many are the corpses already drawn out from the ruins at S. Giuseppe of Ottaiano?
46658How many are the wounded?
46658How many days have they been there?
46658How many were they?
46658How many?
46658How shall I manage?
46658If he did, how could all this ruin be around us?
46658Is it Pompei again?
46658Is it a barricade?
46658Many of you have come back?
46658Old as I am?
46658Settle in the neighbourhood?
46658Sixty?
46658Stone?
46658Three- hundred?
46658To Milan?
46658To Turin?
46658Twenty, thirty?
46658Were there ever people in these houses, in these streets?
46658What are we doing here, why do n''t we start like all the others?
46658What can these poor soldiers and officers do to clothe these destitute children?
46658What could I do in another country?
46658What is done for this country?
46658What then?
46658What time is it when we reach Ottaiano?
46658What was there to be done?
46658What would become of us in Milan, Turin, even in Naples?
46658Where are you going?
46658Where could I go?
46658Where do you want us to go?
46658Where do you wish to go?
46658Who and what will create a new life firm, continued, of constant evolution?
46658Who could believe that a disaster was on us?
46658Who has brought bread to the hungry, and water to the thirsty?
46658Who has gone to Boscotrecase surrounded by fire, but the soldiers?
46658Who has tried to free the streets, the houses from the ashes and stones?
46658Who knows anything more about the hour, about time, about life, in these last four days?
46658Who knows?
46658Who knows?
46658Who knows?
46658Who wants an old woman?
46658Who will forget, who will ever forget that incomparable vision of death?
46658Will he be punished?
46658at Torre Annunziata?
46658at your age?
46658here?
46658where a prince has all the virtues of a true citizen, where heroism is united to simplicity and where the ardour of good is ineffable?
46658why is n''t it dead?
46658you will all help us, wo n''t you?
30737Ah, Miller,he has said,"what matters it how I amuse myself?
30737And do you deem that satisfactory?
30737Brown?
30737But do not they themselves,I asked,"want English?"
30737Did we not think it right,he said,"that there should be evening worship in the family?"
30737Do you know what you are doing, Sir?
30737Had I read Reid?
30737In a word,we find him saying,"do not herbs, plants, roots, grains, and all of this kind that the earth produces and nourishes, come from the sea?
30737Is it true, Hugh,he inquired,"that the lecturer Walsh ridiculed you and your poems in the Council House last night?"
30737Is that man also pitying me?
30737Is this you, L----?
30737It is Click- Clack the carter,said my comrade:"oh, what shall we do?"
30737Jack,exclaimed the old woman, seizing him convulsively by both his hands,"where''s my cousin?--where''s Hugh?"
30737O yes,he said,"but what does that signify?
30737Od, laddie,he said,"what ca''ye this?
30737Oh, and what of that?
30737Oh,he asked, after the first greeting,"have you any salt?"
30737Protection against what?
30737Such is the scene seen at right angles with the plane in which the planets move; but what would be its aspect if I saw it in the line of the plane? 30737 There is mark about that old- fashioned man,"I said to myself:"who or what can he be?"
30737Well, John,I asked one evening, speaking direct, to his evident embarrassment;"what is it?"
30737What ails you?
30737What has happened?
30737What is the matter with you?
30737What poets?
30737What sonnet?
30737What,I inquired of my companion,"are these kind people pitying me so very much for?"
30737Where''s the whisky, Grimbo?
30737Would you not like, Sir,he said, addressing himself to my minister, who sat beside him--"Would you not like to be a sea- gull?
30737_ Hume?_"Yes.
30737''Come, tell me, Donald,''said my brother,''what you think this tree is like?''
30737''What woman, Jack?''
30737A man of high spirit and influence-- a banker, and very much a Whig-- at once addressed me with a stern--"By what authority, Sir?"
30737Against whom does the inscription testify?
30737And have ye mark''d that pillar''d wreath, When sudden struck by northern blast, Amid the low and stunted heath, In broken volumes cast?
30737And how would you answer that?"
30737And such was one of the more special_ Providences_ of my life; for why should I give it a humbler name?
30737And though I knew it might be asked, Why the interposition of a Providence to save_ you_, when he was left to perish?
30737And was it not the great sea, asks the boy, that was so vastly broad, and so profoundly deep?
30737Are his speculations sound, or precarious?
30737Are we eels or puddocks, that we are sent to live in a loch?"
30737Are we to infer that they are shells of more recent origin than the widely- diffused ones?
30737But capacious as the human imagination has been deemed, can it conceive of an area of wider field?
30737But what else could be expected by an ungainly, dust- besprinkled mechanic in his shirt sleeves, and with a leathern apron before him?
30737But what gude o''greevin''as lang''s we are leevin''?
30737But what, it may be asked, was the bearing of all this observation?
30737But would you not better bid adieu to Cromarty, and come along with me?
30737By the way, has he not something very ingenious about miracles?
30737Ca''ye this_ brochan_?"
30737Can Death be nigh, When thus, mute and unarm''d, his vassals lie?
30737Can any cause be assigned why it is not as likely to break out in the nineteenth century as in the fifteenth?"
30737Could I do nothing for my Church in her hour of peril?
30737Could I not do something to bring up the people to their assistance?
30737Could a man in quest of patronage, and actually at the time soliciting a favour, possibly contrive to say anything more imprudent?
30737Could a soul not derived from our first parents be rendered vile simply by being put into a body derived from them?
30737Did the other men take much more than a week to learn?"
30737Do you remember his argument?"
30737Does he float on wind bills, as boys swim on bladders?
30737Dost thou see yon yard sae green, Spreckled wi''mony a mossy stane?
30737For some little time she stood beside me without speaking, and then somewhat abruptly asked,--"What makes_ you_ work as a mason?"
30737Have I not, I asked, crept along a roof of even a steeper slope than that of the shelf?
30737Have ye not seen, from lonesome waste, The smoke- tower rising tall and slow, O''erlooking, like a stately tree, The russet plain below?
30737How can a man get on in the world that wants Gaelic?"
30737How could such a man pass from earth, and leave no trace behind him?
30737How determine the point?
30737How, may I ask, are you yourself provided with the sinews of war?"
30737How, then, have I my conception of the earth as a whole-- of the solar system as a whole-- nay, of many systems as a whole?
30737I had of course to receive a few palmies additional for the speech; but then,"who cared for that?"
30737I know it now: wert thou not placed To catch the eye of him To whom, through glistening tears, earth''s gauds Worthless appear, and dim?
30737I said;"who cares anything for the ridicule of a blockhead?"
30737I was addressed by the recruiting serjeant of a Highland regiment, who asked me if I did not belong to the Aird?
30737I would, of course, lose not only the lever in the torrent, but my trousers also; and how was I ever to get home without them?
30737In stormy autumn day, when sad The boding peasant frets forlorn, Have ye not seen the mountain stream Bear down the standing corn?
30737In what spirit, it has been asked, would Socrates have listened to the address of Paul on Mars Hill, had he lived a few ages later?
30737Is he facile in lending the use of his name?
30737Is his judgment good, or the contrary?
30737Is his sense of monetary obligations nice, or obtuse?
30737Is it not at least natural to think so, since we are certain that all our habitable lands came originally from the sea?
30737Is it not so with genius of a certain altitude?
30737Is there no way of getting a divorce?"
30737Is there to be merely a repetition of the past-- an introduction a second time of"man made in the image of God?"
30737Marge!--What is marge?"
30737My illustration refers exclusively to the native powers; but may it not, I ask, bear also on the acquisition of knowledge?
30737Or shall I put back the hurt altogether till you get home?"
30737Poor bosom, why dost heave Thus wild?
30737See you that large island?
30737The question with him comes always to be a sternly naked one:--Is, or is not, Mr.---- a person fit to be trusted with the bank''s money?
30737The snow- wreath shifting place?
30737Thy way past finding out, Thy love, can tongue declare?
30737What are his resources?--what his liabilities?
30737What are ye aye troubling that decent lad Mr. Stewart for?
30737What is the use of English in Gairloch?"
30737What is to be the next advance?
30737What warms the poet''s lays with generous fire, To which no toil can reach, no art aspire?
30737What would be its appearance if I saw it edgewise?
30737What, think you, could the great Kean make of feeble stuff like that?
30737What,"he adds,"if the sweating sickness, emphatically called the English disease, were to show itself again?
30737Where, in the name of wonder, should I get a kilt to borrow?
30737Who are the brave in freedom''s cause?
30737Who taught the sage, with deepest wisdom fraught, While scarce one pupil grasps the ponderous thought?
30737Who, after once spending even a few hours in such a school, could avoid being a geologist?
30737Why not give her what the length of the chain permitted-- the full range of the room?
30737Why not, in like manner, creep along it to the nest, where there is firm footing?
30737Why smile incred''lous?
30737Why this strange thought?
30737and was it for me, who have so barbarously used thee, that thou hast died?
30737and what sort of a statesman would Robert Burns have made?
30737and will you leave me here to perish?"
30737do you ken Peter, the taxman an''writer?
30737ejaculated Angus, quickening his trot into a canter;"what does he know about carrying sheep''s heads to the smithy?"
30737he exclaimed;"was the elk a native of Scotland half a century ago?
30737of scenes where Pleasure roves, And Peace, could gentle minstrel tire?
30737or are they merely feebler in their reproductive powers?
30737or is his paper representative of only real business transactions?
30737said the tinker, springing to his feet with an agility wonderful for an age so advanced as his,"Have you drunk it all?
30737the_ Incompetent_?"
30737when passed their brief sojourn-- When Heaven''s dread doom is said-- Beats there the human heart could pour Like mockeries o''er the dead?
30737why hasten on?
35317At what( average) rate does the temperature of the earth''s crust increase as we descend from the surface?
35317Have we any trace of frigid conditions during these ages?
35317How are caves in limestone formed?
35317How are rocks affected at the surface in tropical countries?
35317How are rocks disintegrated through the action of plants?
35317How are sand dunes formed?
35317How are the axes of the prisms in a columnar igneous rock arranged?
35317How are the minerals usually arranged in the great metalliferous veins?
35317How are the strata affected at their junction with a''neck''?
35317How are the strata affected on either side of a fault?
35317How do beds terminate?
35317How do fossils afford proof of varied physical conditions?
35317How do igneous rocks occur?
35317How do inclined strata prove that the strata have been denuded?
35317How do intrusive igneous rocks occur?
35317How do intrusive_ sheets_ occur?
35317How do we distinguish the two groups into which igneous rocks are subdivided?
35317How do_ faults_ afford proof of denudation?
35317How do_ stalactites_ and_ stalagmites_ occur?
35317How does a contemporaneous igneous rock affect the beds upon which it rests?
35317How does a lava stream entering a lake or the sea behave in regard to the sediment gathering therein?
35317How does contemporaneous erosion indicate a pause in the deposition of a series of strata?
35317How does frost aid the wasting action of breakers?
35317How does molten rock make its escape from the orifice of eruption?
35317How does unconformability prove a lapse of time between the accumulation of the underlying and overlying strata?
35317How does_ rock- salt_ occur?
35317How have the valleys, dells,& c. been formed?
35317How have the vesicles become flattened?
35317How have_ stalactites_ and_ stalagmites_ been formed?
35317How is it formed?
35317How is metamorphism on the large scale supposed to have been induced?
35317How is sediment deposited by a river in a lake?
35317How is soil formed?
35317How is the approximate age of a fault sometimes shewn?
35317How is the general absence of blocks and stones in Greenland icebergs to be explained?
35317How is the interrupted and partial distribution of strata to be accounted for?
35317How is the waste of land by denudation compensated?
35317How many classes of rock are there?
35317How may certain former changes of sea- level be accounted for without inferring any movement of the land?
35317How may granite be at one and the same time a metamorphic and igneous rock?
35317How may planes of bedding sometimes indicate a break in the succession of strata?
35317How may we identify formations in separate districts?
35317How would you classify granite?
35317In what districts of the British Islands are they most abundantly developed?
35317In what kind of rocks do fossils occur most abundantly, and in the best state of preservation?
35317In what kinds of lava is the vesicular structure most abundantly met with?
35317In what kinds of rock does_ hornblende_ usually occur?
35317In what kinds of rock is_ augite_ found?
35317In what manner have they been filled with mineral matter?
35317In what other formations do coals occur?
35317In what respect do the fossils in younger strata differ from those in older strata?
35317In what respects may it eventually come to resemble chalk and limestone?
35317In which formation do the oldest known mammals occur?
35317Into what groups are the mechanically formed rocks divided?
35317To what are the various colours of sandstone due?
35317To what geological action is the present aspect of these mountains due?
35317To what is the basaltic structure due?
35317Under what circumstances should we term a fault a_ downthrow_?
35317Upon what part of the sea- bottom does the material derived by the action of the breakers chiefly accumulate?
35317We have next to inquire what is the nature of those crystals and particles which are the ingredients of the rocks?
35317What alteration is produced upon coal with which an intrusive sheet has come in contact?
35317What amount of mud is carried in suspension by the Mississippi, and discharged annually into the sea?
35317What are fragmental igneous rocks?
35317What are igneous rocks?
35317What are metamorphic rocks, and what is their general appearance?
35317What are pot- holes?
35317What are some of the appearances relied upon for distinguishing metamorphic from igneous granite?
35317What are some of the chemical compounds held in solution in sea- water?
35317What are some of the notions held in regard to the internal condition of the earth?
35317What are the great geological agents of change?
35317What are the principal kinds of fossils found in the Old Red Sandstone?
35317What are_ anticlines_ and_ synclines_?
35317What are_ crevasses_, and how do they originate?
35317What are_ fossils_?
35317What are_ glaciers_?
35317What are_ master- joints_, and what is their probable cause?
35317What are_ mineral veins_?
35317What are_ schists_?
35317What are_ superficial moraines_?
35317What are_ terminal moraines_?
35317What changes does a glacier effect upon its bed, and how are these modifications produced?
35317What chemical effect has the atmosphere on calcareous rocks?
35317What do chemical analyses of river- water prove?
35317What does the appearance of roots and trunks of trees, and of remains of land animals under peat, indicate?
35317What effect has the nature of the rocks in the production of inequalities in a coast- line?
35317What effect have faults had in determining the direction of river valleys?
35317What effect have the tides and ocean currents in the distribution of sediment?
35317What effect have they produced upon the strata above and below them?
35317What effect have tidal currents in shallow seas?
35317What effect is produced upon fragments of rock caught up and inclosed in lava; and what changes are caused in the pavement upon which it cools?
35317What effect must_ depression_ have upon the strata forming the earth''s crust?
35317What effect upon the sea- bed must stranding icebergs produce?
35317What estimate has been formed of the total amount of mineral matter annually transported by that river?
35317What general proof can be adduced to shew that species have become gradually extinct?
35317What has become of the missing strata?
35317What has determined the direction of river valleys?
35317What have been the general effects produced by denudation on the face of the land?
35317What is Geology?
35317What is Mr Darwin''s theory of the formation of coral reefs?
35317What is a section?
35317What is a_ calcareous conglomerate_?
35317What is a_ delta_?
35317What is a_ dyke_?
35317What is a_ fault_?
35317What is a_ fringing_ reef?
35317What is a_ neck_ of intrusive igneous rock, and how have the strata surrounding it been affected?
35317What is a_ neck_ of_ volcanic agglomerate_?
35317What is a_ pipe- vein_?
35317What is a_ quartzose conglomerate_?
35317What is an_ atoll_?
35317What is coral?
35317What is lava?
35317What is meant by a_ mineral_?
35317What is meant by a_ succession of strata_?
35317What is meant by an_ inversion of strata_?
35317What is meant by the terms_ amygdaloidal_ and_ porphyritic_?
35317What is meant by the terms_ stratum_,_ strata_, and_ stratified_?
35317What is meant by_ petrifaction_?
35317What is meant by_ unconformability_?
35317What is meant by_ vesicular structure_?
35317What is meant by_ weathering_?
35317What is one of the most distinguishing characteristics of mica?
35317What is peat?
35317What is supposed to be the cause of great cosmical changes of climate?
35317What is supposed to be the origin of the deep rock- basins occupied by many fresh- water lakes?
35317What is the appearance called_ slickensides_?
35317What is the cause of_ cleavage_?
35317What is the character of a glacial river?
35317What is the character of the bed overlying a contemporaneous rock?
35317What is the chief agent in distributing erratic stones and blocks over the sea- bottom?
35317What is the composition of_ dolomite_?
35317What is the difference between lacustrine and fluvio- marine deposits?
35317What is the difference between_ lamination_ and_ bedding_?
35317What is the difference between_ trappean breccia_ and_ trappean conglomerate_?
35317What is the element that enters most largely into the composition of the earth''s crust?
35317What is the general character of a_ barrier_ reef?
35317What is the general character of metamorphic rocks?
35317What is the general rule as regards fine- grained and coarse- grained deposits?
35317What is the general structure of a contemporaneous igneous rock?
35317What is the general structure of a volcanic cone?
35317What is the general texture of a contemporaneous igneous rock?
35317What is the growing opinion with regard to the climatic conditions during the glacial period of Pleistocene times?
35317What is the meaning of the terms_ lapillo_,_ puzzolana_, and_ ceneri_?
35317What is the mineralogical composition of granite?
35317What is the mineralogical composition of_ syenite_ and_ diorite_?
35317What is the nature of a submarine terminal moraine?
35317What is the nature of chert and flint nodules?
35317What is the nature of coral rock?
35317What is the nature of the Atlantic ooze?
35317What is the nature of the beds of_ breccia_,_ conglomerate_,_ ash_, and_ tuff_, with which contemporaneous igneous rocks are often associated?
35317What is the nature of the jointing in igneous rocks?
35317What is the nature of the materials thrown out during volcanic eruptions?
35317What is the nature of the movements to which the earth''s crust is subjected?
35317What is the nature of the quartz veins in granite?
35317What is the nature of the red clay found at great depths in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans?
35317What is the nature of the rocks belonging to the Aërial or Eolian group?
35317What is the nature of_ joints_?
35317What is the origin of the dykes of modern volcanic districts?
35317What is the origin of the vesicular structure in igneous rocks?
35317What is the origin of_ icebergs_?
35317What is the origin of_ travertine_ or_ calcareous tufa_?
35317What is the result of a movement of elevation?
35317What is the test of_ superposition_?
35317What is the_ crop_ of a bed?
35317What is the_ ice- foot_?
35317What is their rate of motion?
35317What is_ alluvium_?
35317What is_ cleavage_, and what is its effect upon the bedding of rocks?
35317What is_ cornstone_?
35317What is_ denudation_?
35317What is_ false bedding_?
35317What is_ foliation_?
35317What is_ freestone_?
35317What is_ grit_?
35317What is_ hade_?
35317What is_ iron pyrites_?
35317What is_ overlap_?
35317What is_ quartz- porphyry_?
35317What is_ quartzite_?
35317What is_ shale_?
35317What is_ siliceous sinter_, and how does it occur?
35317What is_ wacké_?
35317What kind of climate characterised the northern hemisphere at the beginning of Pleistocene times?
35317What kinds of climate would appear from the evidence to have chiefly prevailed in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary ages?
35317What kinds of rocks are embraced by the Metamorphic class?
35317What may be inferred from the occurrence of shell- marl underneath peat?
35317What part have the subterranean forces acted in the formation of mountains?
35317What portions of a bed of lava are most frequently scoriaceous?
35317What relation do they occasionally bear to_ sheets_ of igneous rock?
35317What thickness do they attain in the Alps?
35317What, generally, is the geological action of animal life?
35317Where do_ zeolites_ commonly occur?
35317Where does it never occur?
35317Where does_ fluor- spar_ occur?
35317Which formation is the chief repository of coal in Britain?
35317Which kinds of stratified rocks generally have the greatest extension?
35317Which of these go to form the shells and skeletons of marine animals?
35317and what reason can be given for this?
35317and when should we term it an_ upcast_?
10251But how did the first land of all get made?
10251; trees which had grounded, and stuck in the mud; and why should not the coal have been formed in the same way?
10251Am I not going out of my proper sphere to meddle with secular matters?
10251Am I not, indeed, going into a sphere out of which I had better keep myself, and all over whom I may have influence?
10251And coal, or rather culm, is the last link in a series of transformations from growing vegetation?"
10251And how long did this period of slow sinking go on?
10251And how were they changed?
10251And if my readers want a probable cause why the sandstones lie undermost, and the red marl uppermost-- can they not find one for themselves?
10251And if that bottom rock rose up a few miles off, two thousand feet, or any other height, into hills, what would you say then?
10251And is a further transformation possible?
10251And now if any reader shall say, Subsidence?
10251And now, have I, or have I not, fulfilled the promise which I made-- rashly, I dare say some of you thought-- in my first paper?
10251And now, if your imaginative friend chimed in triumphantly with:"Do you not see that I was right after all?
10251And the red marl-- the great deposit of red marl which covers a wide region of England-- why should not it have come from the same quarter?
10251And what are they?
10251And what do I mean by good grain?
10251And what do they tell us?
10251And what is this?
10251And what sort of fossils do we find in it?
10251And why should not the slates in the roof be the remnants of the very beds which are now the marl in the fields?
10251And, after that, what can come, save anarchy, and decay, and social death?
10251Are you sure that you make up your own mind before you speak, or let someone else make it up for you?
10251Are you sure that, though you may hate bigotry in others, you are not somewhat of a bigot yourself?
10251As for the inside being full of sandstone, have we not all seen hollow trees?
10251But are you sure first, that you think what you choose, or only what someone else chooses for you?
10251But have Rain and Rivers alone made the soil?
10251But here some of my readers may ask, as they have a perfect right to ask, why I wish young men to learn Natural Science at all?
10251But how did it get there?
10251But how does this theory explain the perfect purity of the coal?
10251But how far to the west and north did that old continent stretch?
10251But how shall we learn science by mere common sense?
10251But in what state?
10251But is it not all there?
10251But now comes the question-- Even if all this be true, how were the forests covered up in shale and sandstone, one after another?
10251But now: what is the limestone?
10251But now: why should I, as a clergyman, interest myself specially in the spread of Natural Science?
10251But of what kind of plants?
10251But of what practical use will physical science be to me?"
10251But what evidence have we of such sinkings?
10251But what has all this to do with the slates?
10251But what proof is there of this?
10251But where are these vents?
10251But where have all its vast heaps of ashes gone?
10251But whither is it going?
10251But, granting this, how did the first change take place?
10251Did it, as it almost certainly did long ages afterwards, join Greenland and North America with Scotland and Norway?
10251Did you never see that last?
10251Do I seem almost impertinent in asking you to remember it?
10251Do we not all know that when a tree dies its wood decays first, its bark last?
10251Do you doubt me?
10251Do you not see that it fell from the clouds?
10251Do you wish to be free?
10251Do you wish to be great?
10251Do you wish to be strong?
10251Do you wish to be wise?
10251Does all this seem to you mere truism, my dear reader?
10251Does any reader wish for proof of this?
10251Does that seem to you a truism?
10251Exhausted?
10251For is not science antagonistic to religion?
10251Freedom: what do we want freedom for?
10251Give it but time enough, and what would it not eat up?
10251Have we not found that that old sea was an icy sea?
10251Have we not wandered on, step by step, into a whole true fairyland of wonders?
10251Have you not a right to say,"These are all but varieties of the same kind of thing-- namely, vegetable matter?
10251How does the mud get into the river?
10251How long since that flag had seen the light of the sun, when it saw it once again, restored to the upper air by the pick of the quarryman?
10251How long since?
10251I know some will say, at least to themselves:"What need for us to study science?
10251If He has bid you do so, can you do so too much?
10251If I am asked whither is all that enormous mass of rock-- millions of tons-- gone?
10251If you then came to a layer of limestone, would you not say the same?
10251Is it not reasonable to suppose that it is?
10251Is it possible according to known natural laws?"
10251Is not that a country worth living for,--and worth dying for if need be?
10251Is not that simple common sense?
10251Is the reader''s power of belief exhausted?
10251It has at some time or other been dry enough to let a whole copse grow up inside it?
10251Let me ask in return: Are none of you going to emigrate?
10251Let me take you to some island: what shall it be like?
10251Nay, have we not proved more?
10251No?
10251Now how is this to be explained?
10251Now suppose that after these sedimentary beds are laid down by water, the volcano breaks out again-- what would happen?
10251Now what does its presence prove?
10251Now what has made this change in the rook?
10251Now what proof is there of that?
10251Now whence did all that enormous mass of vegetable soil come?
10251Now why is this?
10251So perhaps in this part it has made a shift, and the highlands are younger than the lowlands; for see, they rise so much higher?"
10251That Britain should have been as Greenland is now?
10251That all this land should have been sunk beneath an icy sea?
10251That you do not look at only one side of a question, and that the one which pleases you?
10251The coal on the fire; the table at which I write-- what are they made of?
10251The next question is-- How did these stones get into the clay?
10251They will be justified in saying:"You say that coal is transformed vegetable matter; but can you show us how the transformation takes place?
10251Think, then, or shall I think for my readers?
10251Under them as well as over them?
10251What but this?
10251What can be more different in look, for instance, than a green field of wheat and a basket of loaves at the baker''s?
10251What can that mean but thirty or more subsidences of the land, and the peat of thirty or more forests or peat- mosses, one above the other?
10251What caused the striking difference?
10251What do I mean?
10251What do I mean?
10251What do we know of subsidence?
10251What has broken them up but frost?
10251What has brought them down but frost?
10251What is this quite new element which you have brought into your argument?
10251What lifted it up?
10251What next?
10251What then, has happened to them?
10251What, then, brought the stones?
10251What?
10251What?--someone will answer-- Do you suppose that I will not say what I choose, and that I dare not speak my own mind to any man?
10251When I want to hide a paper, say, under the sofa- cover, do I not thrust it under?"
10251When it was first seen that coal had been once vegetable, the question arose-- How did all these huge masses of vegetable matter get there?
10251Where is it now?
10251Where is subsidence going on now upon the surface of our planet?
10251Where is the third?
10251Where was that great land, off which great rivers ran to deposit our coal- measures in their deltas?
10251Who can answer that?
10251Who can tell now?
10251Who can tell?
10251Why not?
10251Why should it not be simply the remains of the Snowdon Slate?
10251Why should it not have been such in Snowdon?
10251Why should it not some day become warmer again?
10251Why should not those crags be old sea- cliffs?
10251Why-- are we to go out of our way to seek improbable explanations, when there is a probable one staring us in the face?
10251Would he have gained no solid wisdom?
10251Would not common sense tell you that the leaves were there before the sand above them?
10251Would not common sense tell you that the mud was there before the leaves?
10251Would not common sense tell you that the sand was there first, and that the water had laid down the mud on the top of it?
10251You do not know how?
10251You may say,"What?
10251You should ask yourselves that question, seriously and often:"Are my thoughts really free?"
10251Your speech may be free enough, my good friend; and Heaven forbid that it should be anything else: but are your thoughts free likewise?
10251and how did it get where it is-- not into the mortar, I mean, but into the limestone quarry?
10251and, if so, what has a clergyman to do, save to warn the young against it, instead of attracting them towards it?
10251to a time when all England, Scotland, and Ireland were as Greenland is now?
10251what would you answer?
10251when Snowdon was sunk for at least fourteen hundred feet of its height?
10251when mud streams have rushed down from under glaciers on to a cold sea- bottom, when"ice, mast high, came floating by, as green as emerald?"
10251when( as I could prove to you, had I time) the peaks of the highest Cumberland and Scotch mountains alone stood out, as islets in a frozen sea?
40404( Scale 80 feet to the inch) What is the relative age of the dikes_ aa_,_ bb_, and_ cc_?]
40404206), and why?
4040434)?]
40404A Lake well- nigh effaced, Montana By what means is the lake bed being filled?]
40404A Stream in Scotland In what ways is the bed now being deepened?]
40404A Tract of Rocky Desert, Arabia By what process have these rocks been broken up?
40404Are the facts just stated consistent with his theory?
40404Are their crests even or broken by knobs and cols( the depressions on the crest line)?
40404Are their summits broad or narrow?
40404Are there any of its results remaining in the topography of to- day?
40404Are they such in form and position as would be left by stream erosion?
40404Assuming that the Triassic deformation went on more rapidly than denudation, what was its effect on the topography of the time?
40404At least how thick, then, was that portion of the limestone which has rotted down to the clay?
40404At the present rate of recession which will reach the head of Goat Island the sooner, the American or the Horseshoe Falls?
40404At what height did the land stand then, compared with its present height?
40404At what height does underground water stand in the wells of your region?
40404At what rate is the Potomac basin being lowered from this cause alone?
40404Can you account for this on any principle which you have learned?
40404Can you explain their formation and the direction of their slope?
40404Can you explain why slender stalactites formed by the drip of single drops are often hollow pipes?
40404Can you suggest a reason?
40404Can you suggest by what means it has been thus compacted?
40404Comparing their structure with that of folded mountains, what do you infer as to their relief after their deformation?
40404Crater Lake, Oregon How wide and deep is the basin which holds the lake?
40404Crescentic Sand Dunes, Valley of the Columbia River Did the wind which shaped them blow from the left or from the right?]
40404Did the ice fields of the Glacial epoch bear heavy surface moraines like the medial and lateral moraines of valley glaciers?
40404Did the rocks of the Appalachian valley stand above this surface when it was produced?
40404Did they then stand below it?
40404Do the Triassic areas now stand higher or lower than the surrounding country, and why?
40404Do the ridges of the ripple marks upon the dune extend along it or athwart it?
40404Do the river bends remain stationary or move up or down valley?
40404Do you find any remnants of the original surface_ baf_ produced by the dislocation?
40404Do you find traces of any former channels?]
40404Do you infer from this that there were none in existence at that time?
40404Do you see any river deposits along the banks?
40404Does it vary with the season?
40404Does the outflowing stream, from a lake carry sediment?
40404Does this surface_ cd_ accord with the rock structures on which it has been developed?
40404From what data could such an estimate be made?
40404From what direction did the shock come?
40404Glacier with Medial Moraines, the Alps Is the ice moving from or towards the observer?]
40404Has this work been accomplished while the Colorado River has been cutting its present canyon?]
40404Have the present streams reached grade?
40404Have you ever known wells to go dry?
40404How did the rate of recession at those times compare with the present rate?
40404How did the sediments of_ c_ come to be laid upon it?
40404How did they come to be thus separated from their home beyond the arctic circle by a thousand miles and more of temperate climate impossible to cross?
40404How do the Triassic sandstones and shales compare in hardness with the igneous and metamorphic rocks about them?
40404How do the meanders of the two rivers compare in size?
40404How does it come to cross the hard crystalline rocks a and the weaker sandstones_ b_ at the same impartial level?
40404How does the absence of cleavage in quartz affect the durability of quartz sand?
40404How does the length of time needed to develop the surface_ cd_ compare with that needed to develop the valley lowlands?
40404How does the profile of this delta differ from that of an alluvial cone and why?]
40404How does the time involved in the cutting of the canyon compare with that required for the production of the surfaces_ mm ´_,_ nn ´_, and_ P_?
40404How does the valley of_ b_ differ from that of_ a_?
40404How does the width of each flood plain compare with the width of the belt occupied by the meanders of the river?
40404How does this fact affect its erosive power on hard rock?
40404How does this fact affect the weight of the material which each can carry at the same velocity?
40404How far upstream will each fall migrate?
40404How high are the hills?
40404How long a time elapsed between the formation of the two faults as measured in the work done in the interval?
40404How long a time since the formation of the later fault?
40404How long since?
40404How many cycles of erosion are represented here?
40404How may a plain of marine abrasion be expected to differ from a peneplain in its mantle of waste?
40404How may it have been made?
40404How much faster will_ a_ and_ b_ weather than_ c_, and what will be the effect on the shape of the block?
40404How should you expect a shock from the east to affect pictures hanging on the east and the west walls of a room?
40404How thick is the mass of strata which has been removed from over the platform?
40404How was it produced?
40404How was it produced?
40404How wide is the flood plain of the Big Sioux?
40404How wide is the flood plain of the Missouri?
40404How wide is the valley at the base compared with the width of the stream?
40404How, then, will the water of streams differ at these times in turbidity and in the relative amount of solids carried in solution?
40404If a glacier melts back with occasional pauses up a valley, what records are left of its retreat?
40404If from the former, was the drainage of the northern Appalachian mountain region then, as now, eastward and southeastward toward the Atlantic?
40404If now all these offshore formations were raised to open air, how could they be correlated?
40404If the latter, how deeply have the cols been worn beneath the summits of the knobs?]
40404If the rainfall should lessen in your own state to from five to ten inches a year, what changes would take place in the vegetation of the country?
40404In Figure 104 what characteristics of a glacier trough do you notice?
40404In what direction would you look for the now extinct volcano whose explosive eruptions are thus recorded?
40404In what direction?
40404In what respects is a valley glacier like a mountain stream which flows out upon desert plains?
40404In what way can a wind- carved pebble be distinguished from a river- worn pebble?
40404Is it accordant with the rock structure?
40404Is it graded or ungraded?
40404Is it young or old?
40404Is the assumption made above that the rate of recession has been uniform correct?
40404Is the direction of the columns that which would obtain in the cylindrical pipe of a volcano?
40404Is the dune marching?
40404Is the fault a strike or a dip fault?
40404Is the ground moraine of Figure 87 due chiefly to abrasion or to plucking?
40404Is the lake shore to the right or left?
40404Is the stream flowing swiftly over a rock bed, or quietly over a bed which it has built up?
40404Is_ bb_ thin- layered because originally so laid, or because it has been broken up by weathering, although once like_ c_ thick- layered?]
40404Of how many tributaries is it composed?
40404Of what is Somma a remnant?
40404Of what surface may they be remnants?
40404On the whole, which have worked more rapidly, processes of deformation or of denudation?
40404Other factors remaining the same, what changes would occur if the Platte should increase in volume?
40404Other things being equal, which may be expected to deepen its bed the more rapidly?
40404Other things being equal, which of graded streams will have the steeper gradient, a trunk stream or its tributaries?
40404Other things being equal, which will afford the larger proportion of run- off, a region underlain with granite rock or with coarse sandstone?
40404Refilling the valleys intervening between these ridges with the material removed by the streams, what is the nature of the surface thus restored?
40404Should you expect the lateral valleys of a rift valley at the time of its formation to enter it as hanging valleys or at a common level?
40404Should you expect the velocity of an earthquake to be greater in a peneplain or in a river delta?
40404Should you infer that the shock in this case came from the north or south?
40404Studying the section of Figure 244, what inference do you draw as to the source of these intrusive sheets?
40404Terraces carved in Alluvial Deposits] Which is older, the rock floor of the valley or the river deposits which fill it?
40404To find the seam again, should you advise tunneling up or down from_ B_?
40404To what class of coasts does this belong?
40404To what processes is it due?
40404To which surface were they first worn down,_ mm ´_ or_ nm_?
40404Under what conditions of inclination of the strata will a fall migrate the farthest and have the longest life?
40404Under what conditions will it migrate the least distance and soonest be destroyed?]
40404Was it rising or subsiding?
40404Was its channel cut to this depth by the river when the land was at its present height?
40404Was the amount of erosion small or great?
40404Was the surface_ mm ´_ tilted as now when the sandstones were deposited upon it?
40404Was this region land or sea, an area of erosion or sedimentation, during the Jurassic period?
40404Wave- Cut Islands, Scotland How far did the land once extend?]
40404Were its streams slow or swift?
40404Were the beds laid in their present attitude?
40404Were the layers of_ b_ and the surface_ mm ´_ always thus cut short by_ nn ´_ as now?
40404What are the relative ages of terraces_ a_,_ b_,_ c_, and_ e_?
40404What changes are likely to occur when one of these rivers comes to flow at a lower level than the other?
40404What changes have since taken place?]
40404What changes have taken place in_ B_,_ C_, and_ D_?
40404What changes if it should grow warmer?
40404What changes in the forests of your region would be brought about, and in what way, if the climate should very gradually grow colder?
40404What changes may the mountain be expected to undergo in the future from the agencies now at work upon it?]
40404What changes will take place in the future?]
40404What changes would occur if the load should be increased in amount or in coarseness?
40404What characteristics of surface moraines prove this fact?
40404What conclusions do you draw from these facts as to the history of these ancient lakes?
40404What do you infer as to the beginnings of the volcano?]
40404What do you infer as to the height of the lands from which the waste was shed, or the direction of the oscillation which they were then undergoing?
40404What does it show as to the recent height of the hillside surface?]
40404What effect have these sheets on the present topography, and why?
40404What effect will this have on the ridges if the present cycle of erosion continues long uninterrupted?
40404What effect would you expect the laws of glacier motion to have on the slant of the sides of transverse crevasses?
40404What elevations stood above the surface_ cd_?
40404What has been the history of the landscape?]
40404What has been the history of the region since the mountainous surface_ bb_ was produced by erosion?]
40404What has made the surface_ nn ´_ so even?
40404What has taken place along the plane_ baf_?
40404What inference could you draw as to the occurrence in such regions of severe earthquakes in the recent past?
40404What inference do you draw as to the former thickness of the glacier?
40404What is the age of rock- cut valley and of the alluvium which partially fills it, compared with that of the Kansan till?
40404What is the attitude of the strata of this earth block, Figure 197?
40404What is the direction of the tension which causes each and to what is it due?
40404What is the shape of the ridges?
40404What name may you use to designate them?
40404What oscillations are here recorded, and to what amount?
40404What processes are at work upon them?
40404What proportion, then, of their weight in air do stones lose when submerged?
40404What record do you find of the earliest volcanic activity?
40404What stage has it reached, and by what process?
40404What theory of the destruction of the cone does this fact favor?
40404What unconsumed masses overlooked it?
40404What was the nature of the deformation which they have suffered?
40404What will be its future?]
40404What will be the fate of the Falls left behind when the other has passed beyond the head of the island?
40404What would be the result of boring to the reservoir rock at_ d_?
40404When did the dislocation occur compared with the folding of the strata?
40404When did the intrusion of lava sheets take place relative to the deformation?
40404When did the lava flow occur?
40404When the gorge was being cut along the shallows, how did the Falls compare in excavating power, in force, and volume with the Niagara of to- day?
40404When was it built?]
40404When was it tilted?
40404When will they begin anew the work of lateral planation?
40404When, therefore, did the deformation of the Triassic rocks occur?
40404Where was the greater part of the load of these ice fields carried, judging from what you know of the glaciers of Greenland?
40404Which do you infer is on the whole the more destructive agent, weathering or the wave?
40404Which fall will be worn away the sooner?
40404Which is subject to greater temperature changes, a dark rock or one of a light color?
40404Which is the larger river, the Wisconsin or the Fox?
40404Which is the older fault, in Figure 198,_ f_ or_ f ´_?
40404Which is the older mountain, Vesuvius or Somma?
40404Which is the older?
40404Which produces a mantle of finer waste, frost or chemical decay?
40404Which surface is the older?
40404Which will supply the larger region with artesian wells, an aquifer whose dip is steep or one whose dip is gentle?
40404Which, therefore, are more likely to be injured by frost?
40404Why are building stones more easily worked when"green"than after their quarry water has dried out?
40404Why are the bottom set beds of the finer material and why do they extend beyond the others?
40404Why did the streams cease widening the floors of the valley lowlands?
40404Why do metamorphic rocks appear on the surface to- day?
40404Why do their summits lie in about the same plane?
40404Why does it not extend to the upper portion of the course of_ b_?
40404Why have not these changes occurred already?]
40404Why is finer waste here absent?]
40404Why is the latter river deflected down valley on entering the flood plain of the master stream?
40404Why quadrangular?
40404Why so much faster than the Potomac and the Mississippi?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?
40404Why?]
40404Will a river deposit more at low water or at flood?
40404Will a stream deepen its channel more rapidly on massive or on thin- bedded and close- jointed rocks?
40404Will it ever do so?
40404Will there be a larger proportion of run- off after long rains or after a season of drought?
40404With the deposition of the sediments_ efg_?
40404With the erosion of the valleys on the right- hand side of the mountain?
40404With what effect on the projecting spurs of the valley sides?
40404With what effect?
40404With what results?]
40404Would you expect to find ancient beds of rock salt inclosed in beds of pervious sandstone?
40404_ The Platform And Plateau._ Why do they stand at a common level ab?
40404_ The valley lowlands._ Were they planed by graded or ungraded streams?
40404a stream supplied with gravel or one with silt?
40404a well- drained region or one abounding in marshes and ponds?
40404after long and gentle rains, or after the same amount of precipitation in a violent rain?
40404at_ d ´ ´_?]
40404at_ d ´_?
40404during the months of growing vegetation, from June to August, or during the autumn months?
40404from a glaciated pebble?
40404frozen or unfrozen ground?
40404grass land or forest?
40404high or low?
40404how the pictures hanging on the north and the south walls?
40404in the agencies chiefly at work in denuding the land?
40404in the erosion of valleys?
40404in the soil?
40404in the streams?
40404on horizontal strata or on strata steeply inclined?
40404on loose material?
40404one running parallel with the strike of the strata, or a_ dip fault_, one running parallel with the direction of the dip?
40404steep slopes or level land?
40404the north side or the south side of a valley?
40404when rising or when falling?
40404which a thicker mantle?
40404with that of the loess?
41840Aluminium?
41840Are the alternations of the earthy and coal strata satisfactorily explained?
41840At what depth would most mineral substances be melted?
41840At what period was the vegetable growth the greatest?
41840Augite?
41840By what agency have the changes in the metamorphic rocks been effected?
41840By what changes have the coal- beds and other stratified rocks become accessible?
41840By what changes have the metallic ores become accessible?
41840By what kinds of animals were the tracks, which they contain, made?
41840By what law does the elevating force accumulate?
41840By which class of fossil animals is the system characterized?
41840Calcium?
41840Carbon?
41840Carbonate of lime?
41840Chlorine?
41840Clay slate?
41840Do all the animal and vegetable species which have been created still exist?
41840Do similar indications appear in the southern hemisphere?
41840Does the interior temperature sensibly affect the present climates?
41840During what geological period was man created?
41840During what period do the mammalia first appear in abundance?
41840Explain the origin of springs, wells, and artesian wells?
41840Fluorine?
41840Gypsum?
41840Has the climate been growing gradually colder to the present time?
41840Has the level of the sea been, to any considerable extent, fluctuating?
41840Has the north of Europe and America been so depressed, during a period comparatively recent, as to admit of this explanation of the drift phenomena?
41840Has the process of upheaval been sudden or gradual?
41840Have beds of coal been formed at other periods, besides the carboniferous?
41840Have geological causes always operated with the same intensity?
41840Have the changes of level of the same place always been in the same direction?
41840Have these lavas been produced within the historic period?
41840Hornblende?
41840How are caverns formed?
41840How are dikes formed?
41840How are formations identified?
41840How are its varieties distinguished?
41840How are its varieties distinguished?
41840How are marine currents produced?
41840How are soils formed?
41840How are strata brought into a vertical position over large areas?
41840How are the fishes of the earlier and later portions distinguished?
41840How are the footprints and skeletons of human beings hi solid rocks accounted for?
41840How are the fresh- water and marine formations distinguished?
41840How are the irregular stratifications produced?
41840How are the layers of chalk separated?
41840How are the means of forming correct geological theories increasing?
41840How are the mountain valleys, which have the direction of the mountain ranges, been produced?
41840How are the several varieties distinguished?
41840How are the tertiary deposits distinguished from the older formations?
41840How are the tertiary lavas known to be such?
41840How are the varieties distinguished?
41840How are these elementary substances classified?
41840How are these materials supplied?
41840How are they increased by the evaporation of the torrid zone?
41840How are those differences produced upon which the separation into independent formations depends?
41840How are valleys produced?
41840How are volcanic cinders formed?
41840How can we arrive at a knowledge of the causes which have produced geological phenomena?
41840How can we estimate the denudation which the igneous rocks have suffered?
41840How did the flora of the carboniferous period differ from the existing flora?
41840How do faults indicate the denudation of the stratified rocks?
41840How do rivers furnish sediment for the stratified rocks?
41840How do the deep- sea deposits now forming compare in extent with the earlier formations?
41840How do the observations made in deep mines and wells prove this?
41840How do the trap rocks differ from ordinary lavas?
41840How do these causes become important?
41840How do these changes affect our means of knowing the structure of the earth?
41840How do they occur in the islands west of Scotland?
41840How do valleys indicate denudations?
41840How does carbonic acid operate in the disintegration of rocks?
41840How does it become freighted with earthy matter?
41840How does mica slate differ from gneiss?
41840How does oxygen become an agent in the disintegration of rocks?
41840How does silicium occur?
41840How does the amount of stratified rock indicate the great antiquity of the earth?
41840How does the ice accumulate along the coast in high latitudes to form icebergs?
41840How does the ironstone occur?
41840How does the stratification show the same thing?
41840How far is the temperature influenced from the surface?
41840How has it been proposed to explain the striated surfaces of rocks found in the north of Europe and America?
41840How have these concretions been formed?
41840How in the valley of the Connecticut river?
41840How is a lateral moraine formed?
41840How is a volcanic cone formed?
41840How is coal shown to be of vegetable origin?
41840How is it known that the mountains have been covered by the ocean?
41840How is it known that there has been no period of universal disturbance?
41840How is it known that wood thus buried will, at length, become lignite?
41840How is it proved that the removal of the organic matter and substitution of mineral particles are simultaneous?
41840How is it proved that they have taken the inclined position since they were deposited?
41840How is it shown that other veins are not injected?
41840How is it supposed that icebergs may have striated the rocky surface?
41840How is its thickness ascertained?
41840How is lignite converted into mineral coal?
41840How is sand or gravel solidified by the infiltration of mineral waters?
41840How is the age of the volcanic rocks determined?
41840How is the carboniferous system divided?
41840How is the cleavage structure accounted for?
41840How is the cleavage structure produced?
41840How is the coal quarried?
41840How is the coarse and fine sediment separated?
41840How is the columnar structure produced?
41840How is the continuity of the strata interrupted?
41840How is the encroachment upon such coasts shown?
41840How is the existence of submarine mountains shown?
41840How is the fissile structure produced?
41840How is the inclined position of strata produced?
41840How is the terminal moraine produced?
41840How is the vesicular structure produced?
41840How is this conclusion confirmed?
41840How is this demonstrated?
41840How is this objection answered?
41840How is this shown?
41840How long has it been since the creation of the earth?
41840How many active volcanoes exist?
41840How many are known?
41840How many elementary substances are known?
41840How may soils be improved?
41840How may the moraines on the Jura Mountains be explained?
41840How was the segregation in these instances effected?
41840How were these veins formed?
41840How would the effect of these currents be increased by earthquakes?
41840How would this distribution of land affect the temperature of the waters of the ocean?
41840How, then, have the rocks, of which the mountain masses consist, been covered by sea?
41840Hypersthene?
41840In it a crystalline arrangement of the particles of the mass?
41840In what classes of rocks are granite veins found?
41840In what combinations does hydrogen occur?
41840In what combinations is oxygen found?
41840In what direction do the icebergs float, and why?
41840In what does the importance of fossils consist?
41840In what does this prospective arrangement consist?
41840In what light, then, are we to regard disturbances of geological structure?
41840In what localities is it found?
41840In what portion of the tertiary period was the drift deposited What is the geographical range of the drift?
41840In what portions of the geological series are the deposits of salt found?
41840In what respects does the State of New York present the best facilities for studying the Silurian system?
41840In what state were the stratified rocks deposited?
41840In what states are they ejected?
41840In what ways are geological changes produced by human agency?
41840In what ways are they preserved?
41840Into what two portions is it divided?
41840Iron?
41840Is it probable that coal- beds are now forming?
41840Is it probable that these conditions exist to any great extent?
41840Is it well distinguished from argillaceous slate?
41840Is there any reason to suppose that the relations of land and water which would have produced a warmer climate in former times did not exist?
41840Its varieties?
41840Lava?
41840Magnesium?
41840Manganese?
41840Mica?
41840Nitrogen?
41840Of the Cephalaspis?
41840Of what are the organic remains, in rocks, the record?
41840Of what do the coal measures consist?
41840Of what do volcanic rocks consist?
41840Of what does clay consist?
41840Of what does it consist?
41840Of what does the Old Red Sandstone consist?
41840Of what does the Permian portion consist?
41840Potassium?
41840Pumice- stone?
41840SECTION V. How many systems of fossiliferous rocks are there, and what are they?
41840SECTION V. What is a glacier?
41840SECTION V. What means have we of judging of the climate of former periods?
41840Scoriæ?
41840Scoriæ?
41840Serpentine?
41840Sodium?
41840Sulphur?
41840Talc?
41840The Ganges?
41840The Merrimac?
41840The Mississippi?
41840The Trias?
41840The geographical range of the system?
41840The granitic masses are generally deep below the surface; in what other position does granite appear?
41840The strike?
41840To what extent can we ascertain the geography of past epochs?
41840To what parts of the earth are these undulations limited?
41840To what uses is coal applied?
41840Under what circumstances will a new volcano be formed?
41840Under what conditions would there be no change of level?
41840Upon what does its porous structure, when cooled, depend?
41840Upon what does the fluidity of lava depend?
41840Upon what does the power of deep currents depend?
41840Upon what does the transporting power of marine currents depend?
41840Upon what principle are the stratified rocks divided?
41840Upon what principle are the unstratified rocks divided?
41840Upon what principle is the tertiary system divided?
41840Volcanic glass?
41840Volcanic grits?
41840Was the work of creation one of short duration?
41840Were animals created before vegetables?
41840Were the granitic ridges thus covered?
41840Were the inclined strata thus deposited?
41840Were they all produced at the same time?
41840Were they produced at an early period in the earth''s history?
41840What additional explanation is given?
41840What advance is made in the new red sandstone period?
41840What advantage from these elevating forces in reference to the granitic rocks?
41840What amount of change of level may be thus accounted for?
41840What amount of vertical movement must be accounted for?
41840What animal fossils indicate a former warm climate?
41840What are its fossils?
41840What are some of the prominent localities of the trappean rocks?
41840What are some of their effects?
41840What are the changes which are to be referred to chemical agency?
41840What are the character and position of the fossils of the coal measures?
41840What are the dimensions of Mount Ætna, and how has it been produced?
41840What are the dimensions of an iceberg, estimated from the part that is visible?
41840What are the divisions of the Cretaceous system?
41840What are the forces tending to repress the elasticity of the mass below?
41840What are the fossil animals of the system?
41840What are the fossils of the tertiary system?
41840What are the fossils of this formation?
41840What are the fossils of this system?
41840What are the fossils of this system?
41840What are the four most abundant forms?
41840What are the general peculiarities of the system?
41840What are the grounds for asserting that a change of level is taking place over a large area in the Pacific and Indian Oceans?
41840What are the most important marine currents?
41840What are the physical properties of felspar?
41840What are the physical properties of quartz?
41840What are the principal effects of chemical action?
41840What are the principal varieties of lava, and how are they distinguished?
41840What are the reasons for supposing that the lowest stratified rocks are undergoing fusion?
41840What are the relations of land by which the highest temperature would be produced?
41840What are the sources of heat upon which climate depends?
41840What are the sources of the sediment which water deposits?
41840What are the three divisions of the Oölitic system?
41840What are the three divisions of the volcanic rocks, as dependent upon age?
41840What are the three varieties of trappean rocks, and how are they distinguished?
41840What are the unstratified rocks?
41840What are these divisions called, and what does each, name signify?
41840What are volcanic breccias?
41840What are volcanic rocks?
41840What cause fulfils these conditions?
41840What cause may be assigned for the changes of climate which are known to have taken place?
41840What causes are operating to destroy species?
41840What change does the mass of snow in the higher valleys of the glacier mountains undergo?
41840What change have they undergone in this respect?
41840What changes are produced by this high temperature?
41840What changes have they undergone?
41840What circumstances distinguish the trappean from other volcanic rocks?
41840What circumstances render it difficult to identify rocks of the same age in different localities?
41840What circumstances vary the position of the terminus of the glacier?
41840What circumstances would probably increase this amount?
41840What condition of the surface may be regarded as resulting from this cause?
41840What conditions must exist together, in the force by which continents are produced?
41840What confirmation of these conclusions is drawn from the existing climates of different parts of the earth?
41840What degree of importance is attached to water as a geological agent?
41840What determines the position of rapids in rivers?
41840What do fractures at the surface become by the erosion of water?
41840What effect does this have in distributing the sediment which the rivers furnish?
41840What effect has an alkaline condition of water?
41840What effect has the motion of the glacier on the rocky surface over which it passes?
41840What effect has the temperature of water in the solution of silex?
41840What evidence that Siberia once enjoyed a milder climate?
41840What explanation is suggested of deep and extensive chasms?
41840What explanation, in reference to these rocks, is given by those who deny that they constitute a distinct system?
41840What form do rocks take when deposited from a chemical solution?
41840What formations are regarded as recent?
41840What formations of this class are accessible?
41840What former relations of land and water are suggested as not improbable?
41840What forms of animal life were most abundant during the earlier periods?
41840What fossils does it contain?
41840What fossils?
41840What general conclusion may we draw in respect to the stability of the earth''s surface?
41840What higher forms of animal life existed during the silurian period?
41840What instance is given as occurring in New Hampshire?
41840What instances are cited?
41840What is a fault?
41840What is a fossil?
41840What is a simple mineral?
41840What is a volcano?
41840What is diluvium?
41840What is dolomite?
41840What is its amount?
41840What is its ordinary structure?
41840What is its position?
41840What is necessary to render soils fertile?
41840What is probably the condition of the bed of the seas over which icebergs now float?
41840What is the amygdaloidal structure?
41840What is the annual amount of sediment furnished by the Kennebec?
41840What is the cause of the motion of the glacier?
41840What is the class of rocks most obviously referable to volcanic agency?
41840What is the composition of the trappean rocks?
41840What is the condition of the interior of the earth with respect to heat?
41840What is the condition of the surface rock in the colder portions of the temperate zones?
41840What is the deepest geological change of which we have any knowledge?
41840What is the direction of the dip?
41840What is the effect of drying upon the solidification of rocks?
41840What is the effect of moisture and rain?
41840What is the effect of pressure?
41840What is the effect of variations of temperature?
41840What is the effect of waterfalls on the abrading action of rivers?
41840What is the effect of waves of less power?
41840What is the effect of waves upon the coast, when it consists of unsolidified materials?
41840What is the elastic force upon which volcanic phenomena depend?
41840What is the evidence of a somewhat recent period of intense cold?
41840What is the evidence of denudation in the Connecticut valley?
41840What is the evidence that the surface of the earth is thrown into undulations during earthquakes?
41840What is the evidence that these rocks in France are volcanic?
41840What is the extent of the glaciers of the Alps?
41840What is the first mode in which solid matter is taken up by water?
41840What is the force by which these molecular changes have been effected?
41840What is the form of the earlier volcanic rocks?
41840What is the fourth formation of rocks?
41840What is the general conclusion from these facts?
41840What is the general law of increment of temperature?
41840What is the general tendency of these abrading forces?
41840What is the geological position of the Neocomian system, and the greensand of this country?
41840What is the latest tertiary deposit?
41840What is the law of expansion of rocks, as obtained by experiment?
41840What is the lowest metamorphic rock?
41840What is the material by which this effect is produced?
41840What is the most abundant organic product?
41840What is the most abundant plutonic rock?
41840What is the movement by which continents are elevated?
41840What is the object of the preceding chapters?
41840What is the objection to this extension of the glacier theory?
41840What is the origin of the mineral veins which are first mentioned?
41840What is the outcrop of inclined strata?
41840What is the peculiarity of rock at Niagara which has prevented the fall from becoming a succession of rapids?
41840What is the porphyritic structure?
41840What is the present state of the coast of Greenland in this respect?
41840What is the primary division of rocks?
41840What is the principal source of the sediment which is transported by rivers?
41840What is the proof of it?
41840What is the proof that the granitic rocks have once been in a melted state?
41840What is the proof that the temperature under given localities is variable?
41840What is the proportion of the volcanic to other rocks?
41840What is the relative position of the older and newer granites?
41840What is the source of supply to the glacier?
41840What is the structure of granite?
41840What is the third class of changes?
41840What is the third rock in the metamorphic series?
41840What is the total amount of surface covered by the coral reefs?
41840What is the usual annual motion?
41840What is the velocity of these undulations?
41840What is their thickness and amount?
41840What lines form the angle of inclination?
41840What materials of value are obtained from this system?
41840What mineral springs occur in this formation?
41840What minerals are found in this formation?
41840What modifications does clay slate present?
41840What must be the condition of the lowest stratified rocks in regard to temperature?
41840What must be the effect of such currents as the Gulf- stream and Mozambique channel?
41840What objection to it has been raised?
41840What of heat?
41840What ores are found in it?
41840What other animals belonged to this period?
41840What other atmospheric causes are mentioned?
41840What other circumstance increases the abrading action of rivers?
41840What other disturbances have taken place in the strata?
41840What other divisional planes exist in rocks?
41840What other explanation may be given of this interior heat?
41840What other minerals are mentioned?
41840What other plutonic rocks occur in considerable quantities?
41840What other rocks may take the place of these principal rocks?
41840What other system is provisionally introduced?
41840What others are in progress?
41840What peculiarity in reference to fossils will characterize the deep- sea deposits?
41840What peculiarity in the fossils will distinguish the lacustrine and marine deposits?
41840What peculiarity of structure facilitates the cleavage of granite?
41840What peculiarity of the red sandstones is mentioned?
41840What produces the phenomena of the earthquake?
41840What proportion of the earth''s crust consists of it?
41840What recent local changes of climate are mentioned as having occurred?
41840What rock is soluble in water charged with carbonic acid?
41840What rocks contain organic materials in large quantity?
41840What springs?
41840What the geographical range?
41840What variations from this general type occur in the formation?
41840What vertebrated animals belonged to these periods?
41840What was probably the original state of the mass of the earth?
41840What was the climate of the coal period?
41840What was the last work of creation of which we have any geological evidence?
41840What was the peculiarity of the Pterichthys?
41840What will be the effect of its melting?
41840What will be the effect when the elastic is greater than the repressing force?
41840What will be the result of these variations?
41840What would result if the opposite relations of land and water existed?
41840What, besides snow and ice, enters into the composition of a glacier?
41840When a river enters a lake, why is its sediment deposited?
41840When are strata unconformable?
41840When did these various disturbances take place?
41840When has the climate of the earth been most uniform?
41840When is a fossil said to be mineralized?
41840When is sediment deposited in the beds of rivers?
41840Where are the beds of coal found?
41840Where are the rocks of this system found?
41840Where are the tertiary deposits found?
41840Where do the metamorphic rocks occur?
41840Where does the mass of ice increase, and where diminish?
41840Where have they been most studied?
41840Where is it found?
41840Where is most of the sediment deposited?
41840Where is saline matter principally stored?
41840Where is the system developed?
41840Where will the effects of these currents be greatest?
41840Where will the waste at the surface just equal the addition?
41840Which class of currents have the greater depth?
41840Why are lateral cones produced?
41840Why are marine deposits nearly horizontal?
41840Why are not fossils distributed uniformly through all the formations, and through all the parts of each formation?
41840Why are the continents most favorably situated to undergo depression?
41840Why are the lowest stratified rocks regarded as of mechanical origin?
41840Why are the non- fossiliferous called metamorphic rocks?
41840Why are the waters of the ocean saline?
41840Why are these changes but little observed?
41840Why are they not vesicular?
41840Why are volcanoes generally arranged a linear direction?
41840Why are volcanoes situated near the sea?
41840Why do river currents extend some distance into the sea?
41840Why do subsidences occasionally follow these movements of elevation?
41840Why do the principal rocks of this series occur in the order here given?
41840Why does detrital matter remain suspended in the water of rivers?
41840Why does it ultimately separate from the shore?
41840Why does it, on cooling, become more crystalline than lava?
41840Why does not the mass of melted rock below the surface retain permanently its liquid form?
41840Why is it difficult to determine the upper limit of this series?
41840Why is not the formation of the sedimentary rocks capable of being observed?
41840Why is not the stratification destroyed?
41840Why is the basaltic lava the last to be ejected?
41840Why is the bed of the sea most likely to experience the change of elevation?
41840Why is this conclusion an important one?
41840Why may not these concretions have been deposited as nodules?
41840Why may we presume that no more species will be created?
41840Why more crystalline?
41840Why must these changes of level be very slow?
41840Why were cones never formed?
41840Why will it become buried beneath earthy matter?
41840Why will the drift wood of the sea accumulate in particular localities, and why will it sink?
41840Why will the glacier melt but little at its under side?
41840Why, then, are not the changes of level observed?
41840Why, then, is the process of elevation spasmodic, and not constant?
41840With what is the surface rock generally covered?
1697For who,he asks again,"has known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counsellor?
1697( For there is a Why?
1697***** So?
1697***** Well, and what have you been doing?
1697***** Why are you opening your eyes at me like the dog when he wants to go out walking?
1697A boy piling up slates?
1697A bridge?
1697A giant?
1697A live manure- cart?
1697A ring- island?
1697Ah, yes; the old story, my child: Was not the earth always just what it is now?
1697Am I joking?
1697Am I made of lava?
1697And are there many volcanos in the world?
1697And do you not think that any one who took a gun and shot either that mother or that child would be both cowardly and cruel?
1697And how can I do that?
1697And how could the atoms of your fingers grow, and make fresh skin, if they were not each of them alive?
1697And how did men change the soil?
1697And how did they get into the chalk?
1697And how far off are they?
1697And how is it kept good?
1697And how?
1697And if there is, where did they come from?
1697And is that really where Alfred fought the Danes?
1697And now you will ask me, with more astonishment than ever, what possible use can there be in these destroying streams of fire?
1697And now, I suppose, you will want to know what a volcano is like, and what a cone, and a crater, and lava are?
1697And the poor Jews, who were carried away captive to Babylon?
1697And then did all these beautiful grasses grow up of themselves?
1697And then what will become of it?
1697And underneath the roar of that flood, do you not hear a deeper note-- a dull rumbling, as if from underground?
1697And were there any men and women in that old age of ice?
1697And what are Pteropods?
1697And what are the black lines across, marked E E E?
1697And what are these coming now?
1697And what are those black birds about, who croak like crows, or parrots?
1697And what are those who say"marrock,"something like a parrot?
1697And what can have made this little narrow valley?
1697And what did I find?
1697And what do you think will happen then?
1697And what do you want to know first?
1697And what does he do under water?
1697And what had become of Vesuvius, the treacherous mountain?
1697And what is a coral- reef like?
1697And what is he saying now?
1697And what is healing but growing again?
1697And what is in it?
1697And what is lava?
1697And what is lime?
1697And what is oxygen gas?
1697And what is that black above it?
1697And what is that in the air?
1697And what is that shining between the trees?
1697And what is that?
1697And what is that?
1697And what is the mount now?
1697And what is the strongest thing you know of in the world?
1697And what must the whole book be like?
1697And what was that?
1697And what will they do with him?
1697And where did men get the grass seeds from?
1697And where does that come from?
1697And where is the furnace itself?
1697And where would that come out?
1697And whither do they go then?
1697And why are the lines in it twisted?
1697And why does it alter with the moon, as I heard you all saying so often in Ireland?
1697And why does it go up and down?
1697And why is the mouth of the chimney called a crater?
1697And why should there be so many sorts of birds, all robbing the garden at once?
1697And why should we not go homewards in the yacht, things and all?
1697And why?
1697And why?
1697And why?
1697Another forest coming up from below?
1697Are they chalk?
1697Are they snakes?
1697Are they the young ones of that great monster?
1697Are you a plant?
1697Are you an animal?
1697Are you making fun of me?
1697As for the mountain''s being a burning mountain, who ever thought of that?
1697At the top of the chimney?
1697At the top of the cone?
1697But a manufactory of what?
1697But are not poor people often very silly about animals and plants?
1697But are there Coprolites here?
1697But are these really ice- marks?
1697But did these people( savages perhaps) live when the country was icy cold?
1697But did you notice something odd about his tail, as you call it-- though it is really none?
1697But do dogs think?
1697But do its wanderings stop there?
1697But do these downs go to Cambridge?
1697But do you recollect the drawing of the Medusa''s head, with its curling arms, branched again and again without end?
1697But do you see that they dip away from us?
1697But do you think it is all true about the pumas and jaguars?
1697But had these people any religion?
1697But have no whales any hair?
1697But how about our moors?
1697But how are you going to get through the chalk hills?
1697But how can these lumps of chalk hold water?
1697But how can they think without words?
1697But how can trees fight?
1697But how did it get here from London?
1697But how did the coral- reefs rise till they became cliffs at Bristol and mountains in Yorkshire?
1697But how do they turn Coprolites into manure?
1697But how do you know that they lie on the limestone?
1697But how does he know that it was once joined to the cliff?
1697But how does he know that the land sank?
1697But how does it make the hop lands so rich?
1697But how does that make them strong?
1697But how does the coral ever rise above the surface of the water and turn into hard stone?
1697But how is it that Analysis and Synthesis can not take all this chalk to pieces, and put it together again?
1697But how is the swallow- hole sure to end in a cave?
1697But how north- eastward?
1697But how was that done?
1697But if it is wild here, and will grow so well in England, why do we not find it wild in England too?
1697But is he not very rare?
1697But is it not a wonderful tale?
1697But is it not cruel of Madam How to make such floods?
1697But is it not silly to fancy that swallows sleep all the winter at the bottom of the pond?
1697But is it not strange and wonderful?
1697But is it not wonderful?
1697But is it?
1697But is not that cruel?
1697But is not the sorrel itself red, and the oxeyes white?
1697But is not this prettier than a tunnel?
1697But may I not compete for prizes against the other boys?
1697But now, I see, you want to ask a question; and what is it?
1697But now, ask him, What is carbon?
1697But now-- If there was not dry land between Africa and South America, how did the cats get into America?
1697But out of what does he make them up?
1697But she is storing up the wax under her stomach, and bee- bread in her thighs-- for whom?
1697But surely I may try to be better and wiser and more learned than everybody else?
1697But the noise, like a giant''s cough?
1697But then, how was this land of Atlantis joined to the Cape of Good Hope?
1697But there are no caves in chalk?
1697But there would be no harm in his trying?
1697But they have no stalks?
1697But think-- are not chalk- carts very odd and curious things?
1697But this is plain: the place in the world where the most beautiful heaths grow is the Cape of Good Hope?
1697But to what animal do the bones belong?
1697But was she not silly?
1697But what are Coprolites?
1697But what are these curious sea- creatures called, which are animals, yet grow like plants?
1697But what are you staring at now, with all your eyes?
1697But what did you hear him say?
1697But what did you want to know?
1697But what do you know?
1697But what do you want to ask him next?
1697But what does St. Paul say?
1697But what does she say?
1697But what gives the craters this cup- shape at first?
1697But what good will he do by putting chalk on it?
1697But what happens to all the delicate little corals if a storm comes on?
1697But what has all this to do with my fairy tale?
1697But what has that to do with it?
1697But what is carbon?
1697But what is carbonate of lime made of?
1697But what is the tide?
1697But what is this high bit with E against it?
1697But what kind of fish is he?
1697But what made that great valley?
1697But what makes them look and feel so different?
1697But what of that?
1697But what rock are we on now?
1697But what shall we talk about?
1697But what was going on in the meantime?
1697But what was it he said about that cliff over there?
1697But what was it?
1697But where did the Mediterranean Sea run out then?
1697But where is the horse?
1697But who found out all this about the Coprolites?
1697But who makes truth?
1697But why do people dig them?
1697But why do you think so?
1697But why does Lady Why like to see us play?
1697But why does he make that tremendous noise only once, and then go under water again?
1697But why have not all animals found out that?
1697But why is it not a tail?
1697But why is it that Madam How will not tell people beforehand what will happen to them, as you have told me?
1697But why is it that this spurge, and St. Patrick''s cabbage, grow only here in the west?
1697But why is that?
1697But why is the sandstone two worlds newer than the limestone?
1697But why may I not go?
1697But why should the lower rocks be older and the upper rocks newer?
1697But why should there be so many kinds of living things?
1697But why were they put there?
1697But why will she be kind enough to do that for me?
1697But why?
1697But why?
1697But will they be wet and cold?
1697But would you not like to go?
1697But you ask, How ought they to have known that an earthquake would come?
1697But you do not seem satisfied yet?
1697But you look thoughtful: what is it you want to know?
1697But you said that the coal was made from plants and trees, and did plants and trees grow on this coral- reef?
1697But you will ask,"If that is not the reason why fire burns, what is?"
1697CHAPTER I-- THE GLEN You find it dull walking up here upon Hartford Bridge Flat this sad November day?
1697CHAPTER II-- EARTHQUAKES So?
1697CHAPTER IV-- THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF A GRAIN OF SOIL Why, you ask, are there such terrible things as volcanos?
1697CHAPTER VII-- THE CHALK- CARTS What do you want to know about next?
1697CHAPTER VIII-- MADAM HOW''S TWO GRANDSONS You want to know, then, what chalk is?
1697CHAPTER X-- FIELD AND WILD Where were we to go next?
1697CHAPTER XII-- HOMEWARD BOUND Come: I suppose you consider yourself quite a good sailor by now?
1697Ca n''t you tell?
1697Cats?
1697Could they move or beat each other with their boughs?
1697Did it come from any place near here?
1697Did you never watch the pigs feeding?
1697Do I mean that there were ever glaciers here?
1697Do I mean their shape?
1697Do n''t you remember M.''s letter about the one he saw at Rio Janeiro?
1697Do n''t you remember that I told you that once before?
1697Do you not understand me?
1697Do you recollect what I told you of Madam How''s hand, more flexible than any hand of man, and yet strong enough to grind the mountains into paste?
1697Do you see any change in the country?
1697Do you see far away, under, the mountains, little islands, long and low?
1697Do you see the red sand in that field?
1697Do you think that there can be too much wisdom in the world?
1697Do you think you can take all that away without putting anything in its place?
1697Do you understand that?
1697Do you understand?
1697Does Analysis say that a diamond and charcoal are the same thing?
1697Does a volcano make earthquakes?
1697Does he then?
1697Fields and hedges, hedges and fields?
1697Flowers and woods and a lawn; and what is that great smooth patch in the lawn just under the window?
1697For ever and ever?
1697For herself?
1697For what happened to that same Mount Vesuvius nearly 1800 years ago, in the old Roman times?
1697For what is written of her whom, as in a parable, I have called Lady Why?
1697For whom is that bee working?
1697Guess why?
1697Gunpowder?
1697Have you done wrong in asking me?
1697Have you only just found out that?
1697How big is he?
1697How can an island be made in the shape of a ring?
1697How can he, when he has to take the life out of them first?
1697How can that be?
1697How can you know that?
1697How can you tell that?
1697How could she do that?
1697How did he get that quantity of half- wit, that sort of stupid cunning, into his little brain, and yet get no more?
1697How did it get to London from hence?
1697How do I know all that?
1697How do their roots get into the stone?
1697How do they do that?
1697How do you know that?
1697How do you think we shall get out from among them?
1697How does he know that we might hurt him?
1697How does that come to pass?
1697How indeed?
1697How many do you think there are?
1697How many inches are there in 1300 feet?
1697How many kinds?
1697How many sorts of heath have we at home?
1697How many?
1697How the hay- field was made?
1697How?
1697How?
1697How?
1697How?
1697How?
1697How?
1697I know: but what are all the birds doing?
1697I suppose you mean what chalk is made of?
1697If I ask you,"Why did we go out to- day?"
1697If I ask you,"Why does fire burn you?"
1697If I took all the butter out of the churn, what must I do if I want more butter still?
1697If they got here of themselves, where did they come from?
1697If you asked Madam How, do you know what she would answer in a moment, as civilly and kindly as could be?
1697In the yacht?
1697Into the sea?
1697Is he talking Irish?
1697Is it a lake?
1697Is it a petrified plant or flower?
1697Is it an empty flower- bed?
1697Is it because the trees inside have been felled?
1697Is it so?
1697Is that true?
1697Is that why the place is called Bath?
1697Is there a tunnel as there is at Box and at Micheldever?
1697Is there a waterfall there?
1697Is there any difference in the soil inside and out?
1697Is there anything more you want to know?
1697Is there potash and magnesia and silicates in the soil here?
1697Is this the Vale of White Horse?
1697Is whalebone hair?
1697It had never harmed any one, and how could it harm them?
1697Look here; what is that in the chalk?
1697Making me?
1697Meanwhile, did you ever see the lid of a kettle rise up and shake when the water inside boiled?
1697Must it not?
1697My dearest child, why try for that?
1697My finger made of living things?
1697No one to see them, my child?
1697No: but how did he do it?
1697Not as wise as Sweep?
1697Not eat it?
1697Not get over?
1697Not red?
1697Not sorry to go home?
1697Now comes the question-- Whence did these flints and bones come?
1697Now shall I, because I am your Daddy, tell you what Madam How would not have told you?
1697Now to make that 3000 feet of hard rock, what must have happened?
1697Now what could have done that?
1697Now where does that sand and mud come from?
1697Now, as ling can neither swim nor fly, does not common sense tell you that all those countries were probably joined together in old times?
1697Now, how did ice do this?
1697Now, how is that wave made?
1697Now, how was that difference made?
1697Now, if we and all human beings were to leave this pasture for a few hundred years, would not those alders increase into a wood?
1697Of real ghosts?
1697Of what use can they be?
1697Off the mountains?
1697Only some chalk- carts?
1697Only the gnats and flies?
1697Or is there lava in me?
1697Perhaps it was there always, from the beginning of the world?
1697Shall we go over their tops?
1697So far, so good: but how is he to get the meat out?
1697Surely she might have known better?
1697That is the answer to"How did we go out?"
1697That is the coal, a few miles off, marked C. And what is this D, which comes next?
1697That?
1697The White Horse Hill?
1697The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; is not that silly?
1697The ones with thin bills?
1697The sea?
1697Then Madam How would let me go in the yacht?
1697Then am I not to go?
1697Then do you think me silly for fancying that a fossil star- fish was a flower?
1697Then there are such things alive now?
1697Then there is a crack which we can get through?
1697Then were there many coral- reefs in Britain in old times?
1697Then why do they go out?
1697Then why do they not grow?
1697There was no harm in that?
1697They know that bats and dormice and other things sleep all the winter; so why should not swallows sleep?
1697They must have come from some land near where the Azores are now; or how could heaths have got past Africa, and the tropics, to the Cape of Good Hope?
1697This is all very funny: but what is the use of knowing so much about things''teeth and hair?
1697This:-- Suppose that these people, after all, had been fairies?
1697Those great rusty rings fixed into the rock?
1697Three or four?
1697Tons on tons of white mud are being carried down past us now; and where will they go?
1697Use horseflesh?
1697Was it all true that the farmer said?
1697Was it not always a hay- field?
1697Was that before the heaths came here, or after?
1697Water?
1697Well then, do rich grasses come up on them, now that they are broken up?
1697Well, and what do you think about it now?
1697Well, old friend, and how are you?
1697Well, we will talk about that in good time: but now-- What is that coming down the hill?
1697Well-- how was the glen made?
1697Were not these creatures enjoying themselves each after their kind?
1697Were there any men in the world while all this was going on?
1697What are they?
1697What are those great green things standing up in the sky, all over purple ribs and bars, with their tops hid in the clouds?
1697What are those high hills, far away to the left, above the lowlands and woods?
1697What can have made them so steep?
1697What can that have to do with it?
1697What colour are they at night, when the sun is gone?
1697What do you mean?
1697What do you mean?
1697What do you mean?
1697What do you mean?
1697What do you mean?
1697What do you mean?
1697What do you think makes it so yellow and muddy?
1697What does he mean?
1697What does the grass grow in?
1697What else can it be?
1697What has that to do with it?
1697What is a metal?
1697What is her name?
1697What is here?
1697What is it like?
1697What is it that you want to know?
1697What is it, though?
1697What is it?
1697What is it?
1697What is it?
1697What is it?
1697What is that humming all round us, now that the noisy mowing- machine has stopped?
1697What is that turning over in the water, like a great black wheel?
1697What is that?
1697What is the use of learning Latin and Greek, and a dozen things more which you have to learn?
1697What is there curious in them?
1697What killed them?
1697What makes it so hard?
1697What must be left but a ring of coral reef, around the spot where the last mountain peak of the island sank beneath the sea?"
1697What reason could she have to believe the Ammonite was a shell?
1697What reason either could she have to guess that Whitby cliff had once been coral- mud, at the bottom of the sea?
1697What sign of fire was there in that?
1697What sorts?
1697What then do you think he does?
1697What will that hay turn into by Christmas?
1697What, all the way to England?
1697What, indeed?
1697What, that long bank of stones, with a house on it?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697What?
1697When you cut your finger, does not the place heal?
1697Where are we now?
1697Where have we got to now?
1697Where is he gone?
1697Where is that?
1697Where is the wide Severn Sea?
1697Where would it come from?
1697Which do you mean?
1697Whither will the water go,--hundreds of gallons of it perhaps,--which has dripped and run through the heather in this single day?
1697Who can tell that?
1697Who can tell?
1697Who makes facts?
1697Who taught him to be generous, and dutiful, and faithful?
1697Who told you that?
1697Who was that coughed just behind the ship?
1697Who, but God?
1697Who, indeed?
1697Why do you look surprised?
1697Why does the rich grass come up to the bank, and yet not spread beyond it?
1697Why is a volcano like a cone?
1697Why not?
1697Why not?
1697Why not?
1697Why not?
1697Why should there not have been only one sort of butterfly, and he only of one colour, a plain brown, or a plain white?
1697Why, indeed?
1697Why, what does he say?
1697Why, you say all living things must fight and scramble for what they can get from each other: and must not I too?
1697Why?
1697Why?
1697Why?
1697Why?
1697Why?
1697Will he ever know?
1697Will there ever be earthquakes in England which will throw houses down, and bury people in the ruins?
1697With a notch in it?
1697Wo n''t I?
1697Would not one or two have done just as well?
1697Would not the wind blow the seeds, and the birds carry them?
1697Yes, I will try and listen to Lady Why: but what will happen if I do not?
1697You do n''t need to go there?
1697You have heard the farm men say,"That crop has taken a good deal out of the land"?
1697You have seen the room in the British Museum full of corals, madrepores, brain- stones, corallines, and sea- ferns?
1697You know that pond, of course?
1697You know that pretty book( and learned book, too), Forbes''s_ British Star- fishes_?
1697You know the common pink heather-- ling, as we call it?
1697You know the new enclosures?
1697You know the sand- cliffs at Bournemouth?
1697You mean whalebone?
1697You recollect Lord Macaulay''s ballad,"The Battle of the Lake Regillus"?
1697You recollect that?
1697You recollect the pictures of Christmas Sound and Possession Bay?
1697You recollect them?
1697You see that?
1697You think, perhaps, that an earthquake opened it?
1697You want to know why God killed all those people-- mothers among them, too, and little children?
1697You would not wish to be like a cat, much less like an ape or a pig?
1697a dozen already?
1697a piece of old mortar?
1697a snake with a bird''s head?
1697and how again does he not know that we shall not hurt him?
1697as loud as that?
1697is she speaking to us now?
1697one of the red star- fishes which one finds on the beach?
1697such a whale as they get whalebone from, and which eats sea- moths?
1697to that question: and not merely a How?)
1697up this furious stream?
1697we, who for five- and- twenty years have let him and his ancestors build under those eaves in peace?
1697what is it?
1697who am I that I should answer you that?
1697you have a question more to ask?