Between theseclefts are three intermediate furrows, one of which runs N.
Ariadaeus originates one of the longest and most noteworthy clefts on the moon's visible surface, discovered more than a century ago by Schroter of Lilienthal.
Since the erection of the great Lick telescope on Mount Hamilton, our knowledge of the details of some of the lunar cleftshas been greatly increased, as in the case of the Ariadaeus cleft, and many others.
Two fine clefts are easily visible within the ring, one running for some distance on the S.
The two principal clefts follow a nearly parallel course up to the face of the Apennines near Mount Bradley, crossing in their way, almost at right angles, other clefts which run at no great distance from the E.
I have seen two short unrecorded clefts in connection with these objects.
There are at least two distinct clefts on the floor, one running from the W.
Apparent prolongations of clefts in the form of rows of hillocks or small mounds are very common.
Several clefts may be seen on the floor under suitable illumination, among them a forked cleft on the N.
There are between 30 and 40 clefts in the interior, the majority being confined to the S.
Barrancas are those immense cleftsor ravines, some of them several thousand feet deep, which abound upon the plateau, or table-land, on which the city of Mexico stands.
Now and then Indians emerged, with rapid but silent step, from the clefts and passes of the mountain, and joined the party; others left it and disappeared with the same noiseless dispatch.
They are essentially terrestrial, and live in old tree-trunks, or clefts in rocks.
It lives in thickets, under stones, and in theclefts of rocks.
Crossing this region are many mountain ranges of limestone structure, which by water, weather and other causes have been worn away into the most fantastic fissures and clefts and the most picturesque peaks and pinnacles.
There are rocks and clefts and patches of sterile soil.
Strange vegetable forms grow in the clefts and hang over the rocks.
Jesus told Paul that the birds nested up among the clefts yonder and were most destructive in the spring when the ewes were lambing.
Mothers who had done their duty in the camp, leading their children by the hand went to the spring and showed them the spot where Moses' staff had pointed out to his people the water gushing from the clefts in the granite.
These greatclefts seem to be, as Owen says, "lines [1.
Followed caudad the pharynx becomes depressed until, in the region shown in figure 5B, it is a mere narrow slit, g, extending transversely across the embryo and opening through the gill clefts to the exterior on each side.
The gill clefts no longer communicate with the exterior.
For the sake of simplicity the gill clefts are not represented, and the pharynx, mouth, and liver are represented in outline only.
Although not visible externally in the surface view shown, the gill clefts are beginning to form, and the first one opens to the exterior as will be seen in sections of another embryo of this stage.
Compared to the size of the gill clefts the cavity of the pharynx is, at this stage, comparatively small.
They pushed through yonder thicket to the face of those rocks there, which to their eyes took the form of an immense old castle; and the clefts resembled Gothic pointed doors, and the crannies and crevices looked like windows.
High, bare mountains, seamed with clefts and gullies, with steep, overhanging cliffs, which assuredly have never been trodden by the foot of man.
Here and there, runnels of water streamed down over the naked, gray walls of rock into the sea, or found their way down the deep clefts which ran, darkly outlined as though with black chalk, down the face of the cliffs.
On one hand was a range of steep green bluffs hundreds of feet high, the white huts of the natives here and there nestling like birds' nests in deep clefts gushing with verdure.
Its nest is generally placed on tall trees, or the clefts and chasms of rocks and hill sides.
Their building-places are cliffs and precipices, church towers, caves and rocky fissures, and the clefts between the forked branches of tall trees.
On a protruding bush at the edge of one of the wooded clefts of the mountain flank something was hanging, and in the freshening southerly wind was flapping heavily, like a raven's wing, or as if still saturated with the last night's rain.
The setting sun shone kindly on her through the deep clefts of the snow-capped mountains that bounded the horizon, as he cast his beams on the gold leaved shrub, called Dsaac, which bloomed on the brink.
Peribanu struck the wax figure with her sceptre, it broke, and a hideous knot of poisonous serpents rolled from its bowels, and fled into the clefts of the rocks for fear of her wand.
It is (says he) of the bigness of an ox's head, rough and uneven on its surface, and on which are also perceived some clefts and crevices.
There are plants, and even trees, which take root and grow in the clefts of rocks, without any soil.
Wulferus, in the Philosophical Collections, gives an account of a woman buried at Nurenberg, whose grave being opened forty-three years after her death, hair was found issuing forth plentifully through the clefts of the coffin.
It showed a long stretch of breaks, fissures, caves, yellow crags, crumbled ruins and clefts green with pinyon pine.
Even the little town upon the saddle of the island begins to glow white and sparkling, and the limestone precipices show their clefts and shadows in the increasing light.
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