The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. With Memorials of the Death and Character of the AuthorGould and Lincoln, 1858 - 502 pages |
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Acrogens ages amid ancient animals anti-geologists appearance argument bear beds birds bones Carboniferous character cloth club mosses Coal Measures Coccosteus coniferous conifers creation creatures deluge deposits dicotyledonous Divine division earth elephant Eocene evidence exhibited existing extinct fact feet ferns fishes Flood flora forests formations fossil fragments fronds furnished geologic geologist globe greatly heavens Helmsdale Hugh Miller human hundred hyænas Illustrations inches known labors land least length Lepidodendron living Lower Old Red mammals mayhap Miocene molluscs Mosaic nature occur ocean Old Red Sandstone Oolitic organisms original Paleozoic peculiar period plants portion present race regarded remains remarkable represented reptiles resembles revelation rocks says scarce Scotland Scripture seems shells Sigillaria Silurian species specimen Sphenopteris stems surface Tertiary theologians thousand tion trees true truth Turrettine upper vegetable vision writer Zamia