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M. de Carosi has wrote a treatise upon certain petrifactions . In the doctrine of this treatise there is something new or extraordinary. It will therefore be proper to make some observations on it. [Note 38: Sur la Génération du Silex et du Quartz en partie. Observations faites en Pologne 1783,
And, indeed, geology gives us an answer; but it reads contradictorily: It says yes, and it says no. Geology does show us forms of transition, and, indeed, most frequently in the lower classes of animals. Who that has once studied petrifactions, does not know the mass of forms of the terebratulæ, the belemnites, and the ammonites, in the Jura formation?
In the yard, Master Nicless was stemming, with servile and imperious gestures, the cries of terror raised by Vinos and Fibi, as in great distress they watched Gwynplaine led away, and the mourning-coloured garb and the iron staff of the wapentake. The two girls were like petrifactions: they were in the attitude of stalactites. Govicum, stunned, was looking open-mouthed out of a window.
The passage quoted from Stephen Eddy's Life of Bishop Wilfrid, at p. 86 of Churton's "Early English Church," gives us one of the transformations or petrifactions of the wooden Saxon churches. "At Ripon he built a new church of polished stone, with columns variously ornamented, and porches." Mr.
It was then resolved, in case of any unforeseen invasion, to abandon the castle of San Antonio, after a short resistance, and to concentrate the whole force of the province round the mountains, which may be considered as the key of the Llanos. The top of the Imposible, as nearly as I could perceive, is covered with a quartzose sandstone, free from petrifactions.
Now, to show how really hard it is to foist a moral or a truth upon an unsuspecting public through a burlesque without entirely and absurdly missing one's mark, I will here set down two experiences of my own in this thing. In the fall of 1862, in Nevada and California, the people got to running wild about extraordinary petrifactions and other natural marvels.
"I was cleaning up the pasture for my beasts, when I found THIS" kicking a great redwood seven feet in diameter, that lay there on its side, hollow heart, clinging lumps of bark, all changed into gray stone, with veins of quartz between what had been the layers of the wood. "Were you surprised?" "Surprised? No! What would I be surprised about? What did I know about petrifactions following the sea?
In his impassibility, which was perhaps only on the surface, were imprinted two petrifactions the petrifaction of the heart proper to the hangman, and the petrifaction of the mind proper to the mandarin. In every savant there is something of the corpse, and this man was a savant. Only to see him you caught science imprinted in the gestures of his body and in the folds of his dress.
At length, in a lonely dell, we came on a huge wooden gate with a sign upon it like an inn. "The Petrified Forest. Proprietor: C. Evans," ran the legend. Within, on a knoll of sward, was the house of the proprietor, and another smaller house hard by to serve as a museum, where photographs and petrifactions were retailed. It was a pure little isle of touristry among these solitary hills.
Then, after a period of dumb exhaustion, his disordered imagination would suddenly transform the great apartment into a forecastle, and the hurrying throng of nurses into the crew; and he would come to a sitting posture and shout, 'Hump yourselves, HUMP yourselves, you petrifactions, snail-bellies, pall-bearers! going to be all DAY getting that hatful of freight out? and supplement this explosion with a firmament-obliterating irruption or profanity which nothing could stay or stop till his crater was empty.
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