Waves, how formed, "49 ; their charac 

 teristics, 349, 350 ; height of, 369. 



Wealden clays, perfect fossil shells 

 found in, 639 ; oolitic group, 718, 724, 

 728, 729. 



Weaver, salt-rocks near the river, 71-. 



Weeding well, Derbyshire, 208. 



Weight of various quadrupeds, 584. 



Wells, Dr, his theory of dews, 480, 

 481. 



Welsh lakes, characteristics of the, 324. 



Wenlock group of Silurians, C75; corals, 

 C78. 



Werner of Freiberg, the illustrious 

 founder of modern geology, 617 ; his 

 Neptunian theory, 618. 



West Indies, hurricanes in the, 453 

 455. 



Westmannshavn in the Farue Islands, 

 extraordinary bird colony at, 580, 

 581. 



Westminster Hall, stone of, 711. 



Westphal and Hoffmann, their account 

 of the site of Home, 427. 



Wetter, Lake, 320. 



Weymouth, burning hill at, 719. 



Whale fishery, losses and perils of the, 

 340, 344, 345 ; tribes, 578. 



Wheat grown from grains found in 

 Egyptian sepulchres, 570. 



Whichwood Forest, 724. 



Whinstones, 652. 



Whitby Abbey, view of, 380 ; its 

 foundation and position, 394 ; am 

 monites found near, 617, 720 ; burn 

 ing cliff at, 719 ; lias of, 720 ; strata 

 near, 727. 



White Mountain in the AUeghanies, 

 view of the, 419. 



INDEX. 



Wight, geology of the Isle of, 738, 742, 

 776, et al. 



Wildness of birds instinctive, 582. 



Wilkes, Captain Charles, an American 

 explorer, his researches, 196, 2C9, 

 380, 381. 



Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, 307. 



Will-o'-the-wisp. See Ignis-fatuns. 



Willeys, family of the, killed by a land 

 slip, 420. 



Williams, Dr, 495. 



Williams, Rev. John, 455. 



\Villoughby and Ray, their theory of 

 the ignis-fatuus, 543. 



Wilson, Sir Robert, 479. 



Winandermere, and other English lakes, 

 310. 



Winch, Mr N. J., his coal statistics, 

 697. 



Winds, influence tides, 357 ; table of 

 the velocity of the, 437 ; are of three 

 kinds, permanent, periodical, and 

 variable (see Atmosphere), 437 ; of 

 Great Britain, tables of prevailing, 

 459, 460 ; influence evaporation, 402 ; 

 affect temperature, 496 ; also distri 

 bution of animals, 592. 



Winifred, well of St, account and view 

 of, 264. 



Winters, severe, in England, 493 ; 

 chronological list of, in various re 

 gions, 509513. 



Witham, Mr, 706. 



Wolf, the, 592. 



Wollaston, Dr, 543. 



Women, complexions of, 599, 601. 



World, one of the smallest provinces in 

 the great empire of nature, 2 ; chart 

 of the, 195. 



805 



Wrath, Cape, 653, 681. 

 Wrekin, hill of the, 680. 

 Wye, contorted strata of the river, 627, 

 628 ; gorge of the, 630. 



Xanthous, or fair-haired races of men. 

 599. 



Yellow Sea, the, 329, 371. 

 Yokuls of Iceland, 207. 

 York minster, stone of, 711. 

 Yorkshire, chalk of, 734 ; peat of, 769 ; 



sea-beach of, 773. 

 Young, Dr, 727. 



Zamang del Guayre, a famous tree, 550. 



Zambesi, Falls of the, 286. 



Zante, bituminising springs in the 

 island of, 275. 



Zigzag lamination in strata, 625. 



Zimmerman, 588. 



Zodiac, the, an imaginary zone or 

 girdle in the heavens, origin of the 

 signs of the, 5, 143 ; list of constella 

 tions in the, 148, 149; Aries, 149, 

 150 ; Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, 150 ; 

 Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagit 

 tarius, Capricornus, 151, 152 ; Aqua.- 

 rius and Pisces, 152. 



Zones of the globe, amount and rela 

 tive proportion of land in the several, 

 196 ; tables of plants found in the 

 various, 551 ; torrid zone, vegetation 

 in the, 553; insect life in, 573; 

 human food in the various, 597. 



Zoophytes, or plant-animals, 572 ; fos 

 sil, 639. 



Zug, Lake of, 408. 



Zuider Zee, the, 390. 



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