 Dolomieu, — That, if there is any circumstance thoroughly established in geology, it is, that the crust of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much farther back than five or six thousand...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Seite 2951829Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Pye Smith - 1840 - 566 Seiten
...authority of revelation heightened, when I see, on the present surface, no memorials of the event." P. 2H. our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be canied much farther back than five or six thousand years ; that that revolution... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 344 Seiten
...deluge! But Cuvier, the Newton of this science, says, " I am of opinion with M. Deluc and M. Dolomieu, that if there is any circumstance thoroughly established...a great and sudden revolution, the epoch of which Shells are often discovered in English clay-pits, among which are the concha anomitz and the nautilus... | |
 | R C. Shimeall - 1842 - 404 Seiten
...consequence, its insufficiency to account for the above named phenomena. In his essay Mr. Cuvier says that, if there is any circumstance thoroughly established...revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much further back than five or six thousand years ; that this revolution had buried all the countries which... | |
 | Robert Maxwell Macbrair - 1843 - 96 Seiten
...with Deluc and Dolomieu, that if there be any thing settled in Geology, it is this, that the surface of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be carried much further back than five or six thousand years." Again : " The Kirkdale... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1843 - 576 Seiten
...authority of revelation heightened, when I see, on the present surface, no memorials of the event." P. 2K. our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be carried much farther back than five or six thousand years ; that that revolution... | |
 | 1837 - 548 Seiten
...baron Cuvier and Rev. Dr. Buckland. Says the former, " I am of opinion then with De Luc and Dolomieu, that if there is any circumstance thoroughly established...revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much further back than five or six thousand years ago ; that this revolution had buried all the countries... | |
 | 1844 - 836 Seiten
...cucb Uter invention than they would allow. M. Cuvier's deduction from these premises is this : — That if there is any circumstance thoroughly established in geology, it is, that the crust of our glohe has been subjected to a peat and sudden revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much farther... | |
 | 1864 - 822 Seiten
...there is any circumstance thoroughly established in geology it is this— That the crust of the earth has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the epoch of which cannot be dated much further back than 5,000 or C,000 years." These are some of the admitted facts of geology according... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1848 - 436 Seiten
...with Deluc and Dolomieu, that, if there be any thing settled in geology, it is this, that the surface of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be carried much farther back than five or six thousand years ; that that revolution... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 Seiten
...with De Luc and Dolomieu, that if there be anything settled in geology, it is this, that the surface of our globe has been subjected to a great and sudden revolution, the date of which cannot be carried much farther back than five or C000 years ; that that revolution broke... | |
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