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Pagina 307
... Glaciers and the Ice - period , which have attracted much attention . Although but a young man , he is the author of a number of valuable and extensive works on Fossil Remains and on the Glaciers of Switzerland , which may be had of his ...
... Glaciers and the Ice - period , which have attracted much attention . Although but a young man , he is the author of a number of valuable and extensive works on Fossil Remains and on the Glaciers of Switzerland , which may be had of his ...
Pagina 309
... Glaciers , and the progenitrix of these powerful sons , the Ice- period , to which I would call the attention of my readers . Through the investigations of geology , the conviction has become uni- versal , that our earth has not always ...
... Glaciers , and the progenitrix of these powerful sons , the Ice- period , to which I would call the attention of my readers . Through the investigations of geology , the conviction has become uni- versal , that our earth has not always ...
Pagina 318
... glaciers , as the witnesses of its former greatness , on the summit and in the elevated vales of our Alps . This Ice - period and the Glaciers are the subject of the present essay . If we go up to the southern heights of the Jura on a ...
... glaciers , as the witnesses of its former greatness , on the summit and in the elevated vales of our Alps . This Ice - period and the Glaciers are the subject of the present essay . If we go up to the southern heights of the Jura on a ...
Pagina 319
... glaciers and ice fields of the polar regions , it is firmly established , that the masses of ice , which as icebergs are so much feared in high latitudes , are promontories of glacier - walls , which , jutting out over the land into the ...
... glaciers and ice fields of the polar regions , it is firmly established , that the masses of ice , which as icebergs are so much feared in high latitudes , are promontories of glacier - walls , which , jutting out over the land into the ...
Pagina 320
... glacier - ice arose . How far up the Firn and mountains of snow , which were perhaps superincumbent , reached , we ... glaciers . What an immense mass , surpassing all conception ! Should we even grant , what must indeed be conceded ...
... glacier - ice arose . How far up the Firn and mountains of snow , which were perhaps superincumbent , reached , we ... glaciers . What an immense mass , surpassing all conception ! Should we even grant , what must indeed be conceded ...
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