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Charles Lyell
 
Date of birth: 14 November 1797
Date of death: 22 February 1875
Country Of Origin: Scotland
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Geologist

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" A corpse cast into the stream first sinks, and must then be almost immediately overspread with sediment of a certain weight, or it will rise again when distended with gases, and float perhaps to the sea before it sinks again. "

Charles Lyell
" At the time when the ancient vessels, above described, were navigating the waters where the city of Glasgow now stands, the whole of the low lands which bordered the present estuary of the Clyde formed the bed of a shallow sea. "

Charles Lyell
" I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna. "

Charles Lyell
" In 1859, I examined, in a higher part of the same valley of the Oise, near Chauny and Noyon, some fine railway cuttings, which passed continuously through alluvium of the Pleistocene period for half a mile. "

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" In Ardekillin Lake, in Roscommon, an islet of an oval form was observed, made of a layer of stones resting on logs of timber. "

Charles Lyell
" In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation. "

Charles Lyell
" In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other. "

Charles Lyell
" In the lakes of Ireland alone, no less than forty-six examples of artificial islands, called crannoges, have been discovered. "

Charles Lyell
" In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. "

Charles Lyell
" In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. "

Charles Lyell
" It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. "

Charles Lyell
" Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession. "

Charles Lyell
" No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. "

Charles Lyell
" So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. "

Charles Lyell
" Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man. "

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