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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1810 Excerpt: ... Petrifactions. 213 by means of commerce such relations and links an: established between distant kingdoms, that her productions passing through an infinite number of hands; are much increased in value by their extensive and continual circulation. Such, in the hands of God, are the inexhaustible riches of nature, for which.we can never be too grateful.... OCTOBER VIII..-. fiefrifactipns Tut; transformation of different substances from the animal or vegetable into the mineral kingdom, is a peculiarity in natural history well deserving of our attention. Petrifactions throw much light on the natural history of the earth.: The first thing worthy of remark in petrifactions is their external form; which clearly shews that they have once belonged to the vegetable or the animal kingdom. The petrifaction of animals is not unfrequent.' Aquatic animals are found petrified; and it is not uncommon to meet with entire tishes in this state, the least scales of which are distinctly visibly i and the multitude of shells and worms fouud in the bowels of the earth apparently converted into stone, is very great; and there are besides many petrifactions of animatS fohnd,. no similar species of which. are at present known to exist. The petrifactions of marine substance are found in great abundance in various parts of the earth; on the summits of the loftiest mountains, at an elevation of several thousand feet above the su rface of the sea; and others at a great depth in the earth. Various species of petrified plants are also met with in different strata of the earth-; and often the impressions which they have made are only seen, the substances themselves being destroyed. In some places whole trees are found buried more or less deep in the earth, and converted into a stony substan...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150010738
- ISBN 13 9781150010736
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages118
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