The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (Volume 14) (Paperback)

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: or perforated cave-rock. A winding path, however, meets this part of the road, by which there is an easy ascent to the upper cave. A new road is also now forming by Mr Lloyd, with great taste and judgment, along the side of the cliff, near to which, and at no great distance above it, and about half a mile from the upper cave, another excavation in the rock presents itself, which, on examination, I found to be entirely blocked up with soil, and has clearly never been open to human observation. But I have no doubt, from its appearance and character, that it will prove closely analogous to this which has been the subject of the present communication, and will therefore, there is every reason to believe, exhibit as rich a prospect, whenever its recesses may be explored, in search of those organic remains of animals now unknown in the temperate zones. These roads and the situation of the caves shewn in Fig. 1. of Plate I. On the Silicification of Organic Bodies . With a Plate. By Baron Leopold Von Buch. Jr Kom the lively intercourse of naturalists with one another, it has happened that a number of minute observations have become far spread and well known, before any public mention has been made of them. Every communication of such observations, when made by persons of ability? will assume another form. Either one has to add other facts to those originally discovered, or knows how to place these same under other points of view; and thus give a new, more comprehensive, and detailed account of them, from the observations which they suggested. Then it is often difficult, perhaps impossible, to trace back to their origin the individual facts and observations, which at length afford rich and fruitful results. The priority as to the original discovery becomes lost, the more easily, tha...