 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 700 pages
...wild, irregular profusion, over every portion of its surface. The effect if? heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the...as if by enchantment, into the forests of another wovU ; ho beholds trees, of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented... | |
 | Paul Ansel Chadbourne - Natural theology - 1871 - 336 pages
...portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of the plants with the light groundwork of the rock to which they...the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of form and character now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 1170 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light groundwork of the rock to which they are attached. An illustrated book on Vegetable Physiology is full of hints for plans and patterns. In Dr. Carpenter's... | |
 | Alfred Edward Lawson Lowe - Nottinghamshire (England) - 1876 - 340 pages
...profusion of extinct vegetable forms with which the galleries of these instructive coal-mines are hung. The spectator feels himself transported as if by enchantment...forests of another world; he beholds trees of forms and character now unknown upon the face of the earth—faithful records of extinct systems of vegetation,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Beck - 1878 - 280 pages
...contrast of the coal-black colour of this vegetation with the light groundwork of the rock to which it is attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of i another world ; he beholds trees of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth,... | |
 | Henry H. Bourn - Coal - 1882 - 232 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of...trees, of forms and characters now unknown upon the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigour of their primeval life ; their scaly... | |
 | Joseph Hands - 1882 - 96 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-bJack colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of...rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels as if transported by enchantment into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees and ferns of... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - Bible and astronomy - 1885 - 578 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached." THE CLIMATE OF THE DEVONIAN AND CAKBONIFEUOUS PERIODS. Sir Andrew Ramsay, in his splendid and most comprehensive... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - Bible and geology - 1887 - 862 pages
...over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black colour of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached." THE CLIMATE or THE DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS PERIODS. Sir Andrew Ramsay, in his splendid and most comprehensive... | |
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The roof is covered as with a canopy of gorgeous tapestry, encircled with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild, irregular profusion over every portion of its surface. The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coalblack colour of these... 
