 | 1826 - 644 pagine
...was high-water, I found the ancient bed of the sea laid bare and dry, with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells adhering to the rocks on which they...being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia. I found good reason to believe that the coast had been raised by earthquakes at former periods iu a... | |
 | William Henry Fitton - 1826 - 98 pagine
...high-water, I found the ancient bed of the sea laid bare, and dry ; with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells adhering to the rocks on which they...being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia. — And I found good reason to believe that the coast had been raised by earthquakes at former periods,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 pagine
...feet. Part of the bed of the sea remained bare and dry at high water, ' with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which they...being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia f.' I am informed by Mr. Cruckshanks, who resided in the country during the earthquake, that, for several... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pagine
...three feet, at Quintero about four feet. The old bed of the sea was laid bare along the coast, with oysters, mussels, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which they grew. Mrs Graham found reason to believe that the coast had been raised by earthquakes at former periods... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 pagine
...p. 37. t See Geol. Trans., vol. i., second series; and also Journ. of Sci., 1824, vol. xvii. p. 40. which they grew. the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia." * I have been informed by Mr. Cruckshanks, who resided in the country during the earthquake, that,... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 518 pagine
...found the ancient bed of the sea laid • Now Mrs. Calcott. 174252 bare and dry, with oysters, muscles, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which they grew : the fish being all dead, and exhaling the most offensive effluvia. It appeared to me, that there was every reason to believe the coast iad... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 514 pagine
...elevation was three feet, and at Quintero about four feet. Part of the bed of the sea, says Mrs. Graham, remained bare and dry at high water, "with beds of...being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia." -fAn old wreck of a ship, which before could not be approached, became accessible from the land, although... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1840 - 266 pagine
...three feet, at Quintero about four feet. The old bed of the sea was laid bare along the coast, with oysters, mussels, and other shells, adhering to the rocks on which they grew. Mrs Graham found reason to believe that the coast had been raised by earthquakes at former periods... | |
 | David Page - 1844 - 232 pagine
...and part of the bottom of the sea remained bare and dry at high water, with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells adhering to the rocks on which they...Bund — in the delta of the Indus, extending nearly fifty miles in length and sixteen in breadth, was upheaved ten feet ; while adjoining districts were... | |
 | David Page - 1845 - 400 pagine
...and part of the bottom of the sea remained bare and dry at high water, with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells adhering to the rocks on which they...most offensive effluvia. By an earthquake in 1819, a tract—the Ullah Bund—in the delta of the Indus, extending nearly fifty miles in length and sixteen... | |
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... with beds of oysters, muscles, and other shells adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia. 
