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GENERAL INDEX. 



Mississippi, River Result of borings 

 in alluvial lands of, ii, 



550- 

 The Discovery of the, 



ii, 552-3- 



Moab, The Mountains of, ii, 435. 

 Mohammedanism and Desert Re- 

 gions, i, 77. 

 Moisture, its influence upon forest 



growth, ii, I IO. 



Moltke, Field Marshal Von, on the 

 dream of Universal Peace, 



i, 333- 



Monsoons, i, 84, 248-9. 

 Montmorenci, The falls of, ii, 558. 

 Moonlight in the Polar Regions, ii, 



358. 

 Moose Hunting, iii, 182. 



Indians following the trail 



of a, iii, 132. 



Yards in snow-time, iii, 183. 

 Morris Tubes, iii, 212. 

 Mortally Wounded Animals, Insen- 

 sibility to fresh wounds, 

 i", 277. 

 Mosquito Stricken districts, Horses 



in, iii, 240. 



Mosquitoes and Malaria, ii, 152. 

 Failure of so-called 



remedies against, iii, 466. 

 Nettings, iii, 467. 



Moss, Dr. Edw. L., on the pro- 

 gressive cold of Arctic 

 Winters, ii, 343. 

 ,, on the fall of ice crystals 

 during Arctic Winters, 

 ii, 356. 



Motionless Game, Difficulty of 



catching sight of among 



cover, iii, 126, 1^7. 



Mountain Ranges Probable age of 



existing, ii, 392, 



394- 



,, probably each u-p 



heaved by a single 

 convulsion, ii, 



393-94- 



,, ,, as factors in Regula- 



tion of Climate, ii, 

 395- 



Mountain Ranges snow lines upon, in 

 Tropical regions, 

 ii, 396. 

 ,, ,, Malaria upon, ^,403, 



416. 



,, Malaria ascending by 



Ravines, ii, 425. 



Mountain Regions, The great, ii, 



373, ^ 376. 



,, Their axis of up- 



heaval, ii, 373. 



were orginally part 



of the Sea bottom, 

 ii, 378. 



,, ,, Relative proportions 



of to that of the 

 Earth, ii, 392. 



Mountains, seen in the far dis- 

 tance, i, 394-95; ii, 

 436 ; iii, 208-9. 

 Effect of rain in render- 



ing distant, visible, 

 iii, 210. 

 Panoramas seen from 



great, ii, 436-37. 

 ,, As types of endurance 



and Antiquity, ii, 

 385, 392. 



,, probably originally 



much higher than at 

 present, ii, 388. 

 Foothills of, in the tro- 



pics, generally mala- 

 rious, ii, 388, 403, 

 417. 

 In Rainless Regions, 



ii, 403. 



Torrents from, ii, 428. 



,, Snowfed, generally 



low at night, ii, 429. 



-Floods caused by 



melting snow, rise by 



day, u, 429. 



ascents, frequently dis- 



appointing, ii, 437. 

 ,, dangerous to per- 



sons with affected hearts, 



ii, 410; iii, 305-6. 

 Cloud Caps, and Fog 



Belts on, ii, 438. 



