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... peat mosses ; the extension of snow and ice on high mountains ; the accumulations of fallen materials ; alluvial lands formed by rivers along their course ; maritime new lands , & c . The descriptions of a few of these phenomena we ...
... peat mosses ; the extension of snow and ice on high mountains ; the accumulations of fallen materials ; alluvial lands formed by rivers along their course ; maritime new lands , & c . The descriptions of a few of these phenomena we ...
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... peat mosses next claims our attention . ' Peat , as well as the blackish earth I have spoken of above , is a product of vegetation ; but the remains of the vegetables that form it , lose much less of their bulk , and they retain their ...
... peat mosses next claims our attention . ' Peat , as well as the blackish earth I have spoken of above , is a product of vegetation ; but the remains of the vegetables that form it , lose much less of their bulk , and they retain their ...
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... peat there . In proportion as this peat became thicker , the new trees took root in its mass , and attained such size , that at length the winds had the power to tear them up , and the peat continuing to increase , buried them . Here is ...
... peat there . In proportion as this peat became thicker , the new trees took root in its mass , and attained such size , that at length the winds had the power to tear them up , and the peat continuing to increase , buried them . Here is ...
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... peat - land , which is called the Devil's Moor , on account of the accidents that frequently happened to the cattle which ventured on it , as well as to men , who were sometimes swallowed up in it , without the least traces re- maining ...
... peat - land , which is called the Devil's Moor , on account of the accidents that frequently happened to the cattle which ventured on it , as well as to men , who were sometimes swallowed up in it , without the least traces re- maining ...
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... - the author's series of natural chro- nometers , 137 - natural history of peat mosses , 139 - epoch at which the physi- cal changes of our globe commenced , 143 -the importance of geology in a moral point of view. 634 Index . 459 461 462.
... - the author's series of natural chro- nometers , 137 - natural history of peat mosses , 139 - epoch at which the physi- cal changes of our globe commenced , 143 -the importance of geology in a moral point of view. 634 Index . 459 461 462.
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