INDEX 



Agents of denudation, 65, 66. 

 Air currents, 32-37. 

 Alabaster, 116, 117. 

 Alluvium, 96, loo. 

 Ammonites, in, 187, 206. 

 Anticline, 64, 65. 

 Archaean rocks, 213. 

 Aristotle, 6. 



Atlantic ocean, currents of, 48. 

 Atmosphere, the, 29-39. 

 Avalanches, 268, 269. 



Bakewellia,) 120. 

 Basalt, 77, 82, 83, 85. 



controversy regarding origin of, 

 12, 14, 16. 



exploitation for road metal, 182, 

 .183, 185. 



microscopic section of, 106. 

 Beach terraces, 76, 77, 81. 

 "Bedding "of rocks, 63. 

 Brachiopoda, fossil, 134, 154. 

 Buffon, 10. 



Cainozoic rocks, 68, 69. 

 Catamites, 129. 

 Calymene, 152. 

 Cambrian rocks, 69, 70, 210. 

 Carbonic acid, 30. 

 Carboniferous limestone, 152. 

 fossils of, 185. 



rocks, 69, 70. 

 Cave, a, 147. 



exploration of, 157 et seq. 



plan of, 168-169. 

 Chalk-hills, 109. 

 Chamberlin, Prof., 24. 

 Chlorite schists, 213. 

 Chromite-iron ore, 293. 



Clay, 61. 



Clay-ironstone, 297. 



" Cleavage," 62. 



Coal, 62, 63. 



Coalfield, a, 123-138, 297. 



Coast-line, the, 73-89. 



Conglomerate, 62. 



Copper Pyrites, 294, 295. 



Corals, fossil, 187. 



Cosmogony, 3. 



Cretaceous rocks, 68, 69, 81. 



Current-bedding, 101. 



Cyrlograptus. 204. 



Deluge, the Noachian, 9. 

 Demarest, Nicholas, 12. 

 Devonian rocks, 69. 

 " Dip " of rocks, 63. 

 Drainage system, 95. 



underground, 155-179. 

 Dyke," a, 85, 105. 



Earth, early history of the, 1-28. 



relations in the Solar System, 20. 

 Embankments, natural, 94, 97. 

 Eocene rocks, 68, 69, 104. 

 Equinoxes, the, 32. 

 Estheria minuta, 204. 

 Exogyra columba, 85. 

 Exogyra sinuata, 1 1 1. 



Fault, "the Camp," 143, 190-203. 

 Fault, "the Lake," 152, 204, 221. 

 "Faults," 65, 87, 143, 152, 193, 



194. 



Felspar, 59, 258. 

 Fire-clay beds, 297. 

 Flagstones, 62. 

 Flints, no, 115. 



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