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" Thus, in Mar forest, in Aberdeenshire, large trunks of Scotch fir, which had fallen from age and decay, were soon immured in peat, formed partly out of their perishing leaves and branches, and in part from the growth of other plants. We also learn, that... "
Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the ... - Side 202
af Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 511 sider
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes ..., Bind 3

Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 474 sider
...climate, such decayed timber would immediately be removed by insects, or by putrefaction ; but, in the cold temperature now prevailing in our latitudes,...when, in the year 1756, the whole wood of Drumlanrig in Dumfries-shire, was overset by the wind. Such events explain the occurrence, both in Britain and...
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how for the Former Changes ..., Bind 3

Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 442 sider
...climate, such decayed timber would immediately be removed by insects, or by putrefaction ; but, in the cold temperature now prevailing in our latitudes,...middle of the seventeenth century, gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom, in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,...
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Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes ..., Bind 2

Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 584 sider
...climate, such decayed timber would immediately be removed by insects, or by putrefaction ; but, in the cold temperature now prevailing in our latitudes,...century, after the fall of the trees, the inhabitants dug peat.t Dr. Walker mentions a similar change, when, in the year 1756, the whole wood of Drumlanrig in...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art, Bind 2

1841 - 444 sider
...' their perishing leaves and branches, and in part from the growth of 'other plants. We also leam, that 'the overthrow of a forest by a storm, about...middle of the seventeenth century, gave rise to a ipeatimoss near Lochbroom, in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the...
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Rudiments of Geology: For Use in Schools and for Private Instruction

David Page - 1844 - 232 sider
...animals with which we are still familiar. Many have even been formed, as it were, but yesterday ; for we learn that the overthrow of a forest by a storm about...the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,...
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Elements of Geology

David Page - 1849 - 372 sider
...animals with which we are still familiar. Many have even been formed, as it were, but yesterday ; for we learn that the overthrow of a forest by a storm about...the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom in Ross-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,...
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Rudiments of Geology

William Chambers - 1859 - 234 sider
...animals with which we are still familiar. Many have even been formed, as it were, but yesterday ; for we learn that the overthrow of a forest by a storm about...the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat-moss near Lochbroom in Ross- shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees,...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Bind 60

1863 - 568 sider
...tens of thousands of years for the formation of a bed thirty feet thick ; but Lyell himself tells us that " the overthrow of a forest by a storm, about...than half a century after the fall of the trees, the inhahitants dug peat."— Principles of Geology, book iii., chap. 13. Again, as to the rate of delta...
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Facts about Peat as an Article of Fuel: With Remarks Upon Its Origin and ...

Thomas Hooker Leavitt - 1866 - 200 sider
...overthrow of a forest by a storm, about the middle of the seventeenth century, gave rise to a peat-moss, near Lochbroom, in Ross-shire, where, in less than...change, when, in the year 1756, the whole Wood of Drumlaurig was overset by the wind. Such events explain the occurrence, both in Britain and on the...
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The age of man geologically considered in its bearing on the truths of the ...

John Kirk - 1866 - 272 sider
...alongside of this folly of MB de Perthes. He there says — "We also learn that the overthrow of a forest about the middle of the seventeenth century gave rise to a peat moss in Lochbroom in Boss-shire, where, in less than half a century after the fall of the trees, the inhabitants...
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