| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...derived, we might be almost tempted to speculate on the former existence of the Atlantis of Plato as true in geology, although fabulous as an historical...almost entirely since the deposition of the chalk (see map, Plate II.) ; and the same period may have sufficed for the disappearance of a continent of... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...thus forming a surface of more than 25,000 square miles, or equal to about one half of England.f If asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, we might be almost tempted to speculate on the former existence of the Atlantis of Plato as true in geology,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 422 pages
...thus forming a surface of more than 25,000 square miles, or equal to about one half of England.-)If asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, we might be almost tempted to speculate on the former existence of the Atlantis of Plato as true in geology,... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1838 - 576 pages
...marble, and containing a Paludina which seems specifically identical with that of Purbeck. If it be asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1839 - 330 pages
...which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former existence of the Atlantis of Plato. The story of the submergence of an ancient continent, however fabulous in history, may be true as a... | |
| 1843 - 534 pages
...cosmogonists, whom he, in the early portions of his work, condemns with just severity : — " If it be asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former... | |
| John Tudor - Creation - 1847 - 468 pages
...cosmogonists, whom he, in the early portions of his work, condemns with just severity :— " If it be asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate en the former... | |
| John Tudor - Creation - 1847 - 434 pages
...cosmogonists, whom he, in the early portions of his work, condemns with just severity : — " If it be asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1848 - 478 pages
...ruins the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former existence of the Atlantis of Plato ; for the story of the submergence of an ancient continent, however fabulous in history, may be true... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1851 - 598 pages
...and their effects, must not be lost sight of when we speculate on the origin of the Wealden. If it be asked where the continent was placed from the ruins of which the Wealden strata were derived, and by the drainage of which a great river was fed, we are half tempted to speculate on the former... | |
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