| Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1856 - 636 sayfa
...is calm, upon the lea, is from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a...calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells ; and then we readily imagine that the " sunless wrecks," which strew its... | |
| 1857 - 424 sayfa
...from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells; and we may readily imagine that the " sunless wrecks" which strew its bottom... | |
| 1857 - 426 sayfa
...from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells ; and wo may readily imagine that the " sunless wrecks" which strew its bottom... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1860 - 542 sayfa
...is calm, upon the lea, is from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea^ like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a...calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells ; and we may readily imagine that the "sunless wrecks," which strew its bottom,... | |
| William B. Dana - 1861 - 968 sayfa
...from the dust of the earth. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow cloud with its flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells ; and we may readily imagine that the ' sunless wrecks ' which strew its bottom... | |
| Manley Hopkins - 1862 - 458 sayfa
...perfect repose at the bottom of the deep sea. § 760. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a...calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells. § 71. And as to the immensity of life and the power of converting inorganic... | |
| George Charles Wallich - 1862 - 194 sayfa
...Maury, in his admirable work on the ' Physical Geography of the Sea,' as " suggesting the idea that the sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a...calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells;" and he adds, " the ocean, especially within and near the tropics, swarms... | |
| Manley Hopkins - 1862 - 480 sayfa
...deep sea. § 760. Indeed, these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow-cloud with ita flakes in a calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells. § 71. And as to the immensity of life and the power of converting inorganic... | |
| 1868 - 510 sayfa
...freshly fallen snow-flake is from the dust of the earth. Indeed, the soundings suggested the idea that the sea, like the snow-cloud with its flakes in a...calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells. Mr. Maedonald.ofH.MS "Herald," found the foraminifera in very considerable... | |
| 1869 - 606 sayfa
...it is calm upon the lea, is from the dust of the earth. Indeed these soundings suggest the idea that the sea, like the snow-cloud, with its flakes in a...calm, is always letting fall upon its bed showers of these microscopic shells, and we may readily imagine that the " sunless wrecks" which strew its bottom... | |
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