Jussieu, M., 551. 



Kaaterskill Falls, description and view 

 of the, 284. 



Kadu, a native of Ulea, his enforced 

 voyage, 610. 



Kalofaro, the ancient Charybdis, 368. 



Kamenis, volcanic isles of the, 374. 



Kamtschatka, 588. 



Kandal Steig Lake, view of, 310. 



Kangaroo, the, 591, 594. 



Kaup, Professor, 714, 748. 



Keith, Mr, on the dissemination of 

 plants, 565. 



Kelloway rock, the, 726. 



Kentish ragstone, 730 ; chalk, 731. 



Keppler, John, is invited to Prague by 

 Tycho Brahe, 26; his birth, educa 

 tion, and discoveries, 27 ; his three 

 great laws, 27 ; becomes a zealous 

 Copernican, and was the harbinger of 

 Newton, 28 ; his observations on the 

 comet of 1604, and others, 28; falls 

 into distress in his latter years, 28 ; 

 his death, 29 ; was the discoverer of 

 the general laws of the universe, 33 ; 

 surmised those of gravitation, 38; 

 also the existence of other planets, 

 46 ; was a zealous watcher of the 

 stars, 158 ; his familiar refutation of 

 the Epicurean atheism, l',7 ; his 

 graphic account of a new star, 168 ; 

 divined the true cause of tides, 352. 



Kerguelen's Land, flora of, 563 ; has no 

 indigenous population, 596. 



Keswick, rainfall at, 4G9, 474. 



Khamsin wind, 447. 



Killarney, lakes of, 310. 



Killicrankie, 659. 



Killingworth coal-mine, 602. 



Kimmeridge clay, the, 726, 727. 



Kinderscout, eminence of, 694. 



Kingsclere, valley of, illustrated, 630. 



Kirby, Eev. Mr, 543. 



Kirby and Spence's Entomology 

 quoted, 746. 



Kirkcudbright, illustration of rocks at, 

 655. 



Kirkdale Cavern, fossil bones found in, 

 251 ; view of opening to, 252. 



Knight, Mr T. A., 678. 



Koferstein's estimate of fossils, 635. 



Konig, Mr, 721. 



Konigsberg in Norway, huge mass of 

 silver found at, 634. 



Koran, mentions the stars as used iu 

 navigation, 144. 



Labiatae, botanical region of the, 560. 



Laborde, Count A., 712. 



Labyrinthodon, the, 713. 



Laccpdde, 575, 578. 



Lacustrine deposits, 775. 



Ladoga, Lake, 318. 



Lagoons, what they are, 308 ; common 

 in coral isles, 384. 



Lakes, chapter on, 308 325; their 

 characteristics, and origin, 308 ; those 

 of primary regions, 309 ; of secondary 

 regions, 310 ; of Britain, 310 ; of Ire 

 land, 311; of Europe, &c., 311; 

 lakes without affluents or outlets, 

 those with outlets and no affluents, 

 those with affluents, but without 

 outlets, and those with both affluents 

 and outlets, 312 318 ; characteris 

 tics of various, 318 ; floating islands 

 in, 313320, 693; fluctuations and 

 changes in, 320 ; the American, 321 ; 

 depth of various, 322 ; periodical, 

 322 ; decrease in, 323 ; of Wales, 324. 



Lalande, M., anecdote of, 158 ; his cata 

 logue of the stars, 158. 



Lamarck, M., 750. 



Lamartine, M. de, 559. 



Laminar structure of rocks, 624 ; for 

 mations, hypothesis of, 658. 



Lammermuir hills, the, 662. 



Lancaster Sound, 450. 



INDEX. 



i Land changes, interior, chapter on, 

 407 435 ; in mountainous regions, 

 407 ; in sandy regions, 421423 ; in 

 active volcanic districts, 423 ; in in 

 active volcanic regions, 427 ; after 

 earthquakes, 430 ; concluding reflec 

 tions on, 434 ; land-slips and moun 

 tain-slips, their causes, 408 ; of 

 Mount Carnans, 408 ; of the Rosen 

 berg, 408 ; of Mont Conto, 410 ; of 

 Les Diablerets, 411 ; of Mont Grenier, 

 411 ; in the Alleghanies, 419, 420 ; at 

 Seminaria, 433 ; view of a, 613 ; of 

 Marley Hill and Kynaston, 679. 



Landes of Bordeaux, 237, 402. 



Langnedoc, extinct volcanoes of, 417. 



Laplace, M., 3,436; solved the problem 

 left by Newton and Keppler, 34 ; 

 eulogises Flamstead, 37 ; his estimate 

 of Newton's Prindpia, 38 ; and of 

 Bradley"s merits, 42 ; his opinions of 

 temporary stars, 169. 

 ! Lapland, swarms of insects in, 573 ; 

 white fox of, 588. 



Latham, Mr W., his account of some 

 remarkable atmospheric phenomena, 

 536. 



Latitude of a country much determines 

 its climates, 485. 



Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, his account 

 of the Morayshire floods, 292, 416 

 420 ; of Glen Roy, 778. 



Lauren, hill of, 649. 



Laurentine Chapel, Florence, 650. 



Lava, streams of, 428, 434 ; recent and 

 ancient, has the columnar form, 626. 



Lavoisier, M. de, 130, 501. 



Lawrence, Mr, his hypothesis of races, 

 609. 



Lawrence, St, river, islands of the, 

 280 ; rapids of the, 284, 294 ; eleva 

 tion of the waters of the, 292. 



Lay Well, near Torbay, 268. 



Lead, where found, 634; black, or 

 plumbago, is a carburet of iron, 624. 



Leaves, fossil, 631. 



Lebanon, cedars of, with an illustration, 

 559. 



Leeambye, or Zambesi river, falls of. 

 286. 



Leeuwenhoek, 577. 



Lehman, his classification of rocks, 637. 



Leibnitz, first classified rocks, 635. 



Lemur, 591. 



Lepidodendrse, view of fossil, 704. 



Leschenault, M., 563. 



Leslie, Sir John, observations of, 463, 

 468, 478, 506, 507, 509, 514. 



Lesson, M., 591. 



"Letters from the Baltic" quoted, 506. 



Leucous or albinous variety of human 

 kind, 599. 



Level of the sea, height of lakes above 

 the, 317. 



Lewis, curved strata in the isle of, 627, 

 628. 



Lias, oolitic group of, 718 ; of Whitby 

 and Lyme Regis, 720, 724. 



Libra, or constellation of the Balance, 

 151. 



Library, Alexandrian, the, 8, 11 ; de 

 struction of, 17. 



Librations of the moon, 80. 



Lichens, 551, 563. 



Light, its transmission through space, 

 35 ; action of, 50 ; zodiacal, 62 ; 

 stellar, tremulous omission or 

 twinkling of, accounted for, 145, 146 ; 

 its relative intensity, 146. 



Lightning, 516 ; electrical origin of, 

 517. 



Lignite, 738. 



Lima, city of, its inhabitants character 

 ised, 410 ; corn grains first taken to, 

 567. 



Lime, carbonate of, 614, 623. 



Limestone, mountains of, 612 ; in 

 Arcadia, 616 ; mountain limestone 

 used in building the new houses of 



797 



parliament, 620, 711 ; intermingling 

 of, with granite, 631 ; metallic veins 

 in, 634 ; human skeleton found in, 

 636 ; strata, 654. 



Lincolnshire, peat-mosses of, 770. 



Lindley, Dr, 548, 706. 



Link, M., 714. 



Linnaeus, observations of, 551, 552, 557, 

 564 5GC, 590, 591, 593, 595, 598, 774. 



Lion, the, 589, 590. 



Lisbon, earthquake of, 386 ; its remote 

 influence, 270, 431. 



Liverpool, prevailing winds at, 450. 



Lizard class, animals of the, 579 ; leth 

 argy they are occasionally subject to, 

 580 ; general tribes of, 592. 



Llama, the, 589, 594. 



Llampeter, fossil remains at, 666. 



Llandeilo rocks, 669, et al. 



Llanos of South America, account of 

 the, 230, 576, 587. 



Loch Dee granite, 649. 



Loch Earn, 659. 



Loch Katrine, 311, 659 ; view of, 309. 



Loch Leven, view of, 524. 



Loch Lomond, 320, 542, 776. 



Loch Sunart, 658. 



Loch Tay, 659. 



Locke, Professor, 672. 



Locomotive powers of birds, 582. 



Locust, particulars of, and its ravages, 

 573 ; serves as food in the East, 597. 



Logan-stone, the celebrated, 648. 



Loire, descent of the river, 281. 



Lombardy, plain of, 553. 



Lomonosov, a Russian poet, his verses 

 on the northern lights, 524. 



London, anemometer of, 459; climate 

 of, 492 ; winters and summers of, 

 498 ; built on tertiary strata, 739. 



London basin, strata of, illustrated, 

 741. 



Longevity of mankind, 607. 



Lonsdale, Mr, 670. 



Lophiodon, 745. 



Lowerz, lake of, 409, 410. 



Lowland, or ground-level of Europe, 

 defined, 223. 



Lubec Bay, account of, 773. 



Lucretius, citations from, 271, 275, 295, 

 457, 571, 615. 



Lucrine Lake, 403, 405. 



Lucullus introduced the cherry-tree, 

 568. 



Ludlow rocks, 669, et al. ; site of town 

 of, 678. 



Lunar observations of Flamstead, 37 ; 

 influences examined, 86, 482. 



Lunardi, the aeronaut, 437. 



Lyell, Sir Charles, 687 ; his theory of 

 thermal springs, with an illustrative 

 diagram, 273 ; his account of the 

 force of river-currents, 283 ; his sum 

 mary of losses at sea, 373 ; observa 

 tions at Sheringham, 395 ; at Dun- 

 wich, 395 ; on the Rhone, 398 ; on 

 the temple of Serapis, 405 ; on earth 

 quakes in Chili, 406 ; on the absence 

 of heath-plants in America, 558 ; 

 on the dissemination of plant-seeds, 

 566, 567 ; on fish of inland seas, 578 ; 

 on stray birds, 583 ; his Principles of 

 Geology, 615, 616 ; his geological re 

 searches, 643, 657, 661, 684, 731, 740, 

 741, 743, 750, 774, 787. 



Lyon, Captain, 528. 



Lyons, Gulf of, 450. 



Lyra, constellation of, 163. 



Macculloch, Dr, his geological observa 

 tions, 619, 628, 633, 635, 643, 654, 655, 

 658, 659, 661, 702, 774, 784. 



Madras, surf at, 350 ; description of a 

 monsoon at, 442 444. 



Mseander, river of, 282, 398. 



Maelstrom of Norway, 367. 



Maestricht, mososaurus found near, 

 735, 736. 



Magellan's voyage, incident of, 520. 



