| 1816 - 676 pages
...state: they are brokeu, in every direction, into pieces of every size, from three inches diameter down to an absolutely impalpable powder. The flints thus...nothing different from other flints can be perceived, excepting fine lines indicating die fracture, as in a broken glass; but when moved, they fall all at... | |
| 1818 - 590 pages
...state : they are broken in every direction into pieces of every size, from three inches diameter, down to an absolutely impalpable powder. The flints thus...shivered, as if by a blow of inconceivable force, refain their complete form and position in their bed. The chalk closely invests them on every side,... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips - Geology - 1822 - 568 pages
...state ; they are broken in every direction into pieces of every size, from three inches diameter down to an absolutely impalpable powder. The flints thus...side, and till removed, nothing different from other Hints can be perceived, excepting fine lines indicating the fracture, as in a broken glass ; but when... | |
| William Daniel Conybeare, William Phillips - Geology - 1822 - 592 pages
...state ; they are broken in every direction into pieces of every size, from three inches diameter down to an absolutely impalpable powder. The flints thus shivered, as if by i blow of inconceivable force, retain their complete form and position' in their bed. The chalk closely... | |
| James Redding Ware - Isle of Wight (England) - 1871 - 226 pages
...retain their form and pofition in the bed. The chalk clofely invefts them on every fide, and until removed nothing different from other flints can be perceived, except fine lines indicating the fracture, as in broken glafs. But when moved, they fall at once to pieces. The fragments are as... | |
| Books - 1817 - 568 pages
...state: they are broken in every direction into pieces of every size, from three inches diameter down to an absolutely impalpable powder. The flints thus...complete form and position in their bed. The chalk clpsely invests them on every side, and till removed nothing different from other flints can be perceived,... | |
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