The book The Physical And Moral Aspects of Geology was written by author Barbee, William J., 1816-1892. [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of The Physical And Moral Aspects of Geology book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Physical And Moral Aspects of Geology a good or bad book?
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It is adapted for crawling^ coiling^ rattling^ and striking. Go on a little further. There lies a dead rattlesnake on the surface of the earth ; the flesh is gone, and the skeleton remains. Tell me, what did he do when he was alive ? Why, to be sure, he crawled^ and coiled, and rattled, and struck. Why do you think so ? Because his bony structure is similar to the live snake, which was seen to perform those evolutions. You reason well. Let us walk on a little further, and dig about in a bed of ...modern alluvium, and we come to the skele- ton of a reptile imbedded in the heavy sand and loam. It is found, upon close examination, to be in every respect similar to the other skeleton, even to the rattle; and you pronounce it identical in species. One step further. Look in that bluff bank, where workmen have been excavating to make a wharf for the populous city. Twenty feet below the surface Digitized by Google 140 PHYSICAL AND MORAL of the earth they find that same snake. Above the soil an oak-tree has grown, the age of which, as estimated by its rings, is 750 years.
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