There is, indeed, one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system, altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic appearances of the surface of our planet.
Thus, as one set of laws produced all orbs and their motions and geognostic arrangements, so one set of laws overspread them all with life.
Geognostic observation has substituted more rational characters of metallic deposits, some of which may be called negative and others positive.
This substance is employed to fabricate not only bottle corks, but small architectural and geognostic models, which are very convenient from their lightness and solidity.
Physical and Geognostic Remarks, by the same author, prefixed to this volume.
The proper carrying out of the objects of the geognostic enquiries was hampered by unforeseen obstacles and difficulties.
This geognostic phenomenon was to me the more unexpected since there exists nowhere in the world so smooth a plain entirely granitic.
This tertiary formation no doubt belongs to that of the coast of Cumana, Carthagena, and the Great Land of Guadaloupe, noticed in my geognostictable of South America.
These modes of formation are linked with a geognostic hypothesis, which has at least the recommendation of being founded on facts observed in remote times, and which strongly characterize the chains and groups of mountains.
Till that period, which the political state of Brazil seems to retard, the geognostic table of the group of Parime can only be completed by scattered notions collected in the Portuguese and Dutch colonies.
I have already often pointed the attention of my readers to a geognostic law, one of the few that can be verified by precise measurements.
I long since drew attention to the geognostic importance of entering into a comparison of the western coast of Africa and of South America within the tropics.
All geognostic phenomena indicate the periodic alternation of activity and repose;* but the quiet we now enjoy is only apparent.
On the geognostic relations of Carrara ('The City of the Moon', Strabo, lib.
Geognostic horizon, whose careful investigation may yield certain data regarding the identity or the relative age of formations, the periodic recurrence of certain strata, their parallelism, or their total suppression.
Dare we hazard a conjecture on that which can not be an object of actual geognostic observation?
But what are such intervals of time compared to the length of the geognostic periods revealed to us in the stratified series of formations, and in the world of extinct and varying organisms!
Posidonius even ventured to deride the geognostic myth of the blocks and stones.
It is highly probable, reasoning from geognostic relations, that the lower formations will prove metalliferous, yielding both lead and copper; a discovery which would form a new era in the history of those mines.
It is found overlaid by lead-ores in many of the European mines; and the geognostic character of the country leads us to conclude that it may also be found here.
A curious geognostic discovery remains to be made in the eastern part of America, that of finding in a primitive soil a rock of euphotide containing the piedra de Macagua.
Beyond the town of Villa de Cura and the Cerro de Chacao the aspect of the country presents greater geognostic variety.
Respecting the connection between the vegetable productions of a country and its geognostic peculiarities, little is yet known; but the reader may compare Meyen's Geography of Plants, p.
For, setting aside the chemical and geognostic varieties of soil, it may be said that the two causes which regulate the fertility of every country are heat and moisture.
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