| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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