INDEX. 



Aberdeenshire, granite of, C47, 649. 



Aberration of the stars, 43. 



Abyssinia, wild oat found by Bruce in, 

 5(57; climate of, 601. 



Achray, view of Loch, 4C5; citation 

 from Walter Scott regarding, 405. 



Acotyledones, 551. 



Actynolite, the mineral, 623, 644, 663. 



Adaptation of external nature to man's 

 wants, 570. 



Adelsberg Cave, description and view 

 of, 243, 247. 



Adige, the river, its rapid descent, 284, 

 490; view of the valley of the, 413. 



Adour, the river, 402, 549. 



Adria, ancient city of, 400. 



Adriatic Sea, changes about the, 399. 



Adventurers, .mining, their ignorance 

 of geology, 620. 



-iSgina and jEgean Sea, view of, 346; 

 port of, 257. 



Aerolites, 130 143 ; derivation of the 

 word, 131; table of, by M. Izarn, 

 132; fall of, at Ensisheim on the 

 Rhine, 132 ; one seen to fall by 

 Gassendi, at Nice, 133 ; several fell 

 at La Grange-de-Juillac, in France, 

 133, 134 ; a remarkable one fell in 

 Yorkshire, 134 ; several fell near 

 Benares, in India, 134 ; an immense 

 fall of, in Normandy, 134 ; nature 

 and composition of aerolites, 135 ; 

 recent instance at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 1 35 ; many fall which are never 

 observed, 136 ; metallic masses sup 

 posed to be meteoric, 136 ; a remark 

 able fragment in the British Museum, 

 136 ; particulars of one that fell in 

 the Punjaub, 136 ; probable origin of 

 aerolites, 136 ; Laplace's theory, 137 ; 

 Chladni's, 137 ; Sir H. Davy's, 137 ; 

 Arago's and Olmstead's ideas on 

 meteoric showers, 142 ; the subject 

 involved in great uncertainty, 142. 



Africa, eastern and western, floras of, 

 562 ; animals of, 590 ; population of, 

 596 ; granite mountains of, 645. 



Agalysian rocks, C57. 



Agassiz, Professor, 670, 679, 684688, 

 713, 765. 



Aged persons, account of various, C07. 



Agriculture improved by geology, 620. 



Aiguilles, the Swiss, 647. 



Air, its nature and uses, 435 (see At 

 mosphere) ; effects of vitiated, 459 ; 

 its composition, 461. 



Aix, in Provence, hot springs of, 270. 



Alban Mount volcanic, 427. 



Albinos, 599. 



Aleutian islands, 375, 558, 688. 



Alexandria, city of, its foundation, 8 ; 

 its celebrated library, 8 ; the seat 

 of extended astronomical science, 

 8 ; Alexandrians early constructed 

 various instruments, including astro 

 labes, or armillary spheres, 16 ; bay 

 of, 397. 



Algae, or sea-weeds, 558. 



Algol, the star, its position, 170. 



Ali Pasha, 323. 



Alleghany Mountains, land-slip in the, 

 420 ; view of the, 494. 



Allen, Bog of, 769. 



Alligators, 580. 



Alluvium, chapter on recent formations 

 of, 766 783; organic, 767772; 

 marine, 772 775 ; lacustrine, 775 

 777 ; fluviatile, 386, 777 ; chemical 

 and mineral, 778 ; volcanic, 779 783. 



Almagest, or Great Collection of 

 Ptolemy, contents of the, 11 ; con 

 tained 48 constellations, 147. 



Alphonsine tables, their invention and 

 uses, 18. 



Alphonso of Castile, his irreverent 

 remark, 19. 



Alpine flora of south of Europe, 560. 

 j Alps, the, 207, 236, 408 415 ; cretins 

 of the, 459 ; Tyrolese, characteristics 

 and view of, 490; fossiliferous remains 

 of the, 635 ; granite mountains of, 

 645, 649. 



i Altai mountains, 645, 649. 

 I Alterations of coast-line, chapter on, 

 386 406; encroachments by the 

 ocean, 386 397 ; accretions to the 

 land, 397 400 ; accumulations of 

 shore sands, 400 402 ; volcanic ele 

 vations of shores, 402 406. 



Altitudes of various localities in the 

 globe, 205. 



Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, 623 ; fossils 

 at, 738, 742 ; view of, 742. 



Amazon, river of, 232 ; descent of its 

 waters and j unction with the Atlantic, 

 281, 294, 302, 304 ; east winds of the, 

 439 ; wooded banks of the, 555 ; 

 valley of the, 584 ; jaguars near the, 

 586 ; raft-islands at the mouth of the, 

 593. 



America, lakes of, 312 ; transparent 

 water of the, 322 ; climate of the con 

 tinents of, 492496; population of, 

 596 ; races of men, 603, 605 ; granite 

 mountains of, 645 ; coal districts of, 

 702 ; fossil elephants of, 753 ; mas 

 todon of, 754 ; megatherium of, 757 ; 

 sivatheriuni of, 758 ; fossil horses of, 

 758. 



Ammonite shells found at Wliitby, 

 617; catena, view of the, 640; at 

 Hornsey, 641 ; varieties of, 719. 



Amygdaloids, G55. 



Anacreon, citation from, 482. 



Analogy between the vegetable and 

 animal world, 571. 



Analysis of mineral water, 276 ; of sea- 

 water, 328330. 



Anaxagoras, 7, 8. 



Anaximander, 7. 



Ancients, the, noticed all the celestial 

 phenomena open to unaided visual 

 observation except annular eclipses, 

 14 ; their instruments of observation 

 simple and imperfect, 15 ; pyramids 

 and obelisks with them served as 

 measurers of hours, days, and years, 

 15 ; their clepsydrae or water-clocks, 

 15 ; the economy of the universe was 

 a sealed book to the, 16 ; had but a 



circumscribed knowledge of the glol >e, 

 194 ; carefully fortified mountain- 

 passes, 218 ; their limited knowledge 

 of physical geography, 346 ; were 

 little addicted to physical inquiry, 

 433 ; used lightning conductors, 521 ; 

 had glimpses of geological science, 

 C15. 



Andes, incidental notices of the, 219, 

 et ol., 645, 655. 



Andrews, castle and coast of St, C93. 



Anemometer kept by the Royal Society, 

 459. 



Angelucci, Father, his account of the 

 Fata Morgana, 539. 



Angitas, the river, sources of the, 299. 



Anglo-Saxon Race, the, 608. 



Angular lamination in strata, 625. 



Animalculse, fossil, 635 ; perfect pre 

 servation of, 641 ; tertiary, 749. 



Animals disseminate plant seeds, 566 ; 

 chapter on the distribution of, 571 

 594 ; modern and ancient classifica 

 tions, 571 ; plant animals, 572 ; in 

 fusoria, 572 ; mollusca, 672 ; insects, 

 572574 ; fishes, 574 578 ; whales, 

 &c., 578 ; reptiles, 679 ; buds, 580 

 584 ; quadrupeds, 584591 ; of the 

 Old World superior to those of the 

 New, 586, 587, 589, 590 ; localities of 

 animals, 592 ; distribution of, by the 

 Creator, 592 ; means of their dis 

 persion, 592 594 ; lime in the bodies 

 of, 623 ; bodies and traces of in strata, 

 631, et al.; the less complex tribes of 

 appeared the first, 639 ; list of fossil 

 of the several periods, 640. 



Anio, the, or Teverone, its cascade, 

 286 ; its ravages, 416. 



Annelidans, fossil, described and illus 

 trated, 666. 



Anning, Miss Mary, 723. 



Anoplotherium, the, 745; skeleton of 

 the, 641. 



Antarctic continent, flora of, 562 ; has 

 no indigenous human population, 

 596. 



Anthracotherium, the, 745. 



Anthropophagists, 597. 



Antipodes Island, its situation, 19G. 



Antiquity of the earth, 429, 434. 



Antisana, Mount, 203, 645. 



Antrim, granitic mountains of, 650. 



Ants, white, or termites of India and 

 Africa, 573. 



Apennines, the, 650. 



Apes, 590 ; class of, 592. 



Aphelia, 1. 



Appian, 575. 



Apples, fabled, of the Dead Sea, 315. 



Apricot, poisonous variety of the, 568, 

 569. 



Apteryx australis, the, 582, 787. 



Aquarius, or constellation of the Water- 

 bearer, 152. 



Aquatic plants, 548. 



Aqueous atmospheric phenomena, 

 chapter on, 461 483; atmospheric 

 vapours, their amount and distribu 

 tion, 4C1 463 ; forms and nature of 



