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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CRUISE OF THE BETSEY. CHAPTER I. PreparationDeparture Recent and Ancient MonstrositiesA Free Church Yacht Down the Clyde Jura Prof. Walker's ExperimentWhirlpool near Scarba Geological Character of the Western Highlands An Illustration Different Ages of Outer and Inner Hebrides Mt. Blanc and the Himalayas " mere upstarts" Esdaile Quarries Oban A Section through Conglomerate and Slate examined M'Dougal's Dog-stone Power of the Ocean to move Rocks Sound of MullThe BetseyThe Minister's Cabin Village of TobermoryThe " Florida," a Wreck of the Invincible Armada Geologic Exploration and Diseovery At Anchor. The pleasant month of July had again come round, and for full five weeks I was free. Chisels and hammers, and the bag for specimens, were taken from their corner in the dark closet, and packed up with half a stone weight of a fine soft Conservative Edinburgh newspaper, valuable for a quality of preserving old things entire. At noou on St. Swithin's day (Monday the 15th), I was speeding down the Clyde in the Toward Castle steamer, for Tobermory in Mull. In the previous season I had intended passing direct from the Oolitic deposits of the eastern coast of Scotland, to the Oolitic deposits of the Hebrides. But the weeks glided all too quickly away among the ichthyolites of Caithness and Cromarty, and the shells and lignites of Sutherland and Ross. My friend, too, the Rev. Mr. Swan- son, of Small Isles, on whose assistance I had reckoned, wasin the middle of his troubles at the time, with no longer a home in his parish, and not yet provided with one elsewhere; and I concluded he would have but little heart, at such a season, for breaking into rocks, or for passing from the too pressing monstrosities of an existing state of tiling. to the old...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459004337 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459004337 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $35.44 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 320 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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