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INDEX. 



271, 272; not known to Hough- 

 ton, 274; foreshadowed by C. 

 C. Douglass and B. Hubbard, 

 275. 



Sah, geology of, in Michigan, 

 225 ; publications on, 267 



Salt production, 264, 266. 



Salt spring lands, 255, 256, 257, 

 259. 



Salt springs in Michigan, 255, 

 261 ; compared with those in 

 Ohio, 257; Houghton's opin- 

 ions on, 276. 



Salt Wells at Grand Rapids, 258, 

 259; on Saginaw river, 261, 

 263, 270, 271. 



Saussure, Aiguille de, 66. 



Saussure, H. de, quoted, 36 ; cited, 

 60, 90 ; sketch of 02 ; efforts of, 

 to ascend Mont Blanc, 63, 79, 

 91, 96. 



Savannah, 208. 



Savoy. Duke of, 22. 



Scandinavia, 166. 



Schliemann, 144. 



Schonkirchen, Count, 82. 



Schumakoff, 242 



Schwilgue, 14. 



Science, limits of, 352; defined, 

 358; seems to antagonize re- 

 ligious sentiment, 361 ; often 

 proceeds by deduction, 361 ; 

 recognized certainty of, 306; 

 grounds of validity of, 366; as- 

 sumes a persistent, thinking 

 being, 366; assumes the certi- 

 tude of phenomena, 367 ; this 

 only a belief, 367; assumes 

 uniformity of causation, 368; 

 inclines to overlook its own 

 subsumptions, 369 ; assumes 

 uniformity of nature, 370 ; this 

 not simply continuity of phe- 

 nomena, 371 ; contrasted with 

 philosophy, 373; implies pur- 

 pose, 374 ; does not furnish ul- 

 timate explanations, 378; au- 

 thority of, strengthened by 

 metaphysics, 385. 



Scribner, James, and salt enter- 

 prise, 260, 262. 



Scythian plains, 155. 



Sediments, geological, origin of, 

 123, 132; transportation of, 

 132; of rivers, 149, 162; on 

 coast of China, 162 



Selwyn, cited, 177. 



Sensibilit}', aesthetic, 103. 



Sequence not causation, 378. 



Seracs, 57, 74. 



Servetus, 108. 



Shansi, 161. 



Shensi, 161. 



Siberia, 141, 156, 199, 241; ad- 

 vent of glaciation in, 244. 



Siberian mammoth, 242. 



Sierra Nevada, 129. 



Sistine Madonna, 115. 



Skeletons of mastodons, 251. 



Smith, George, cited, 159. 



Smoothed rock surfaces, 177. 



Snow increased with increased 

 eccentricity, 189; enveloping 

 mammoths, 244. 



Socrates, 324. 



Solon, 142. 



Somerville, INIary, 116. 



Sounds, beauty of, 116, 117. 



Southall, J. C, quoted, 169. 



Southern hemisphere glaciated, 

 189, 198. 



Southey, quoted, 45. 



Space and time, 363. 



Spitzbergen, 167. 



St. Bernard, Great, 89. 



St. Clement, of Alexandria, quot- 

 ed, 113. 



Steppes, 156. 



St. Gervais, 29, 61, 79. 



St. Hilaire, 350. 



St. Lawrence river, 123, 137. 



St Louis, 208. 



St. Martin, 28. 



Stockwell cited, 196. 



Stoics on creation, 324. 



Storm at sea, sublimit}^ of, 108. 



St. Petersburg mammoth, 238, 

 242, 243. 



Strabo cited, 158. 



Strasbourg cathedral and clock, 

 14. 



Strato cited, 158. 



St. Roque, Cape of, 193. 



Struggle for existence, 350. 



