10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SURTURBRAND»
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1
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
Now, exclusive of the other vegetable characters which are so evident in many of
the varieties of Bovey coal, of the Sussex coal, of surturbrand, &c. &c. the
presence of resin must' be regarded as a strong fact: for this sub, stance has
always ...
2
British Mineralogy: Or, Coloured Figures Intended to ...
TAB. CLXXXIX. Surturbrand. 1 His is found near the mouth of the Ouse, ten miles
from Brighton, Sussex, and is of the same kind as the Surlm*- brand of Iceland.
Near the surface of the ground its changes are somewhat different from those of ...
3
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
Deposits of volcanic tufi'a, partly of submarine origin, form here extensive hills, in
which the brown coal or Surturbrand constitutes no unimportant part. Olafsen, in
his Travels in Iceland, so early as the middle of last century, directed attention"6 ...
4
The Philosophical Magazine: Comprehending the Various ...
It certainly was very natural that Bergmann should entertain this opinion in
respect to the surturbrand ; and it is remarkable that the leaves contained in the
sehistus latelv described are of the same nature, and are found in the same
country.
It was ' one of the most interesting displays of surturbrand to be met with in the
island.' Sir George Mackenzie could procure no satisfactory account of the
situation in which surturbrand occurs ; some said it was found on rocks, others in
alluvial ...
William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, 1818
6
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
We have denied the probability of the Bovey coal being of a ligneous origin,
farther than is the cafe with every kind of coal ; but the surturbrand displays the
concentric circles of wood, marking its annual increase; and the substance,
though flat, ...
Tobias George Smollett, 1799
7
A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
Its strata agree It may however be proper to observe, that the Bovey coal s"
thtband°f *S *ounc* '" strata, corresponding in almost every particular with those
of the surturbrand in Iceland, described by Von Troil*, and by Professor
Bergmann f.
8
The Quarterly Review (London)
It was ' one of the most interesting displays of surturbrand to be met with in the
island.' Sir George Mackenzie could procure no satisfactory account of the
situation in which surturbrand occurs ; some said it was found on rocks, others in
alluvial ...
9
The history of Devonshire
There is a remarkable kind of fossil wood, which much resembles the Bovey Coal
, and in like manner is arranged among the bituminous woods, which is found in
Iceland, and called by the inhabitants Surturbrand. This is rather harder than the
...
Thomas Moore (writer on Devon.), 1829
10
The Oxonian in Iceland, Or, Notes of Travel in that Island ...
I now ride to Trollatunga, two miles inland, and on the road perceive surturbrand
cropping out in various places. The clergyman of this place belongs to the
Temperance Society, but nevertheless he placed wine before me. The
sacramental ...
