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IFDEX. 



Ascent of Mont Blanc, 56, 59 

 seq. ; motives to, 59 ; efforts to- 

 ward, (i3, 64,79, 91 ; repetitions 

 of, 96. See, also, " De Saussure " 

 and " Balmat." 



Assumptions intuitively made, 

 364 seq., 383, 884. 



Astronomical causes of glacia- 

 tion, 182. 



Athabasca, 195. 



Atheism not attributable to Hux- 

 ley, 320; nor to evolutionists 

 in general, 327, 332; supposed 

 promoted by science, 361 ; a 

 logical impossibility, 382, 383. 



Atlantis, 142. 



Auburn cemetery, 18. 



Australians, 140, 165. 



Austria, 181. 



Avalanche, 80. 



Azof, Sea of, 157. 



Aztecs, 166. 



Baer, von, cited, 157. 



Bagley, Col., 96. 



Balmat, Jacques, 40, 64, 79 ; story 

 of, 91 seq. 



Balme, 27. 



Baltic Sea, 167. 



Barns, Henry, 265. 



Bar of Mississippi, 149. 



Basel, 16. 



Basin of middle Tennessee, 147. 



Basin ranges, 129. 



Bean, 86 ; diary of, 86. 



Bear island, 180. 



Beautiful, the, is good, 104; is 

 true, 105. 



Beauty promotes human happi- 

 ness, 100, 101 ; fills the world, 

 101, 383; nature of, 103; where 

 found, 105 seq. ; of nature, 105 ; 

 of storm at sea, 108, 109; of 

 humanity, 110 ; of woman, not 

 wholly physical, 112; may be 

 cultivated, 113 ; vain appli- 

 ances of, 113; of man, 114; of 

 age, 115; of motion, 116 ; of 

 sounds, 116; of truth, 118; of 

 virtue, 119; of sorrow, 120. 



Beaver islands, 214. 



Behring's strait, 141, 166, 240. 



Belle Plaine, 262. 



Bells, beauty of sounds of, 117. 



Berbers, 144. 



Berlin, 181. 



Bernina, Monte, 54. 



Berosus cited, 158. 



Bex, 23. 



Biblical story of creation, 327. 



Bickmore, A. S., cited, 163. 



Biel, lake of, 20. 



Birds, variations among, 342. 



Black races, wanderings of, 1 65. 



Black Sea, 156. 



Blaire and the Mer de Glace, 36. 



Blatiere, 49. 



Blodget,L., cited, 201. 



Bois, Glacier des, 31, 47; village 



of, 50. 

 Bonneville, 27. 

 Bonnivard, 22. 

 Borneo, 175. 

 Bosphorus, 156. 

 Bossons, Glacier des, 30, 31, 57, 



67, 68, 70, 73, 80 ; motion of, 56. 

 Boston, 208. 

 Brachiopods, variations among, 



342. 

 Bravais, 90. 



Brazil, glaciation in, 180. 

 Br(^vent, 32,48, 71. 

 Brevoort, Miss, 97. 

 Brewer, T. M., 342. 

 Brines, origin of, in Michigan, 



201, 263, 271; Houghton's 



views on, 276; Hubbard's 



views on, 276. 

 Bronze in Great Britain, 167. 

 Brussels to Strasbourir, 13. 

 Bryant, William Cullen, 116. 

 Buet, 25. 

 Buffalo, 210. 

 Butterworth, R. E., salt well of. 



262. J-. 



BjTon, Lord, quoted, 20, 23, 33,- 



122; villa of, 22. 



Cabins of the Grands Mulets, 77. 

 Caillet, fountain of, 33. 



