The Cruise of the Betsey
The Cruise of the Betsey
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Occurring as arectangular spit in the line of the shore, with the expanded streamwidening into an estuary on its upper side, and the open sea on thelower, it marks the scene of an obstinate contest between antagonistforces, --the powerful sweep of the torrent, and the not less powerfulwaves of the stormy north-east; and exists, in consequence, as a longgravelly prism, which presents as steep an angle of descent to the waveson the one side as to the current on the other. It is a true river bar, ...beaten in from its proper place in the sea by the violence of the surf, and fairly stranded. Dr. Emslie obligingly submitted to my inspectionhis set of Gamrie fossils, containing several good specimens ofPterichthys and Coccosteus, undistinguishable, like those I had seen onthe previous day, in their state of keeping, and the character of thenodular matrices in which they lie, from my old acquaintance theCephalaspians of Cromarty. The animal matter which the bony plates andscales originally contained has been converted, in both the Gamrie andCromarty ichthyolites, into a jet-black bitumen; and in both, theinclosing nodules consist of a smoke-colored argillaceous limestone, which formed around the organisms in a bed of stratified clay, and atonce exhibits, in consequence, the rectilinear lines of thestratification, mechanical in their origin, and the radiating ones ofthe sub-crystalline concretion, purely a trick of the chemistry of thedeposit.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Occurring as arectangular spit in the line of the shore, with the expanded streamwidening into an estuary on its upper side, and the open sea on thelower, it marks the scene of an obstinate contest between antagonistforces, --the powerful sweep of the torrent, and the not less powerfulwaves of the stormy north-east; and exists, in consequence, as a longgravelly prism, which presents as steep an angle of descent to the waveson the one side as to the current on the other. It is a true river bar, ...beaten in from its proper place in the sea by the violence of the surf, and fairly stranded. Dr. Emslie obligingly submitted to my inspectionhis set of Gamrie fossils, containing several good specimens ofPterichthys and Coccosteus, undistinguishable, like those I had seen onthe previous day, in their state of keeping, and the character of thenodular matrices in which they lie, from my old acquaintance theCephalaspians of Cromarty. The animal matter which the bony plates andscales originally contained has been converted, in both the Gamrie andCromarty ichthyolites, into a jet-black bitumen; and in both, theinclosing nodules consist of a smoke-colored argillaceous limestone, which formed around the organisms in a bed of stratified clay, and atonce exhibits, in consequence, the rectilinear lines of thestratification, mechanical in their origin, and the radiating ones ofthe sub-crystalline concretion, purely a trick of the chemistry of thedeposit.
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