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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Preliminary Kemarks on the Subjects treated of in this Work — Definition of 

 the Terms Recent, Post-Pliocene, and Post-Tertiary — Tabular View of the 

 entire Series of Fossiliferous Strata Page 1 



CHAPTER II. 



RECENT PERIOD DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS SWISS LAKE- 

 DWELLINGS. 



Works of Art in Danish Peat-Mosses — Remains of three Periods of Vegetation 

 in the Peat — Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron — Shell-Mounds or ancient 

 Refuse-Heaps of the Danish Islands — Change in geographical Distribution 

 of Marine MoUusea since their Origin — Imbedded Remains of Mammalia 

 of recent Species— Human Skulls of the same Period — Swiss Lake-Dwell- 

 ings built on Piles — Stone and Bronze Implements found in them — Fossil 

 Cereals and other Plants — Remains of Mammalia, wild and domesticated — • 

 No extinct Species — Chronological Computations of the Date of the Bronze 

 and Stone Periods in Switzerland — Lake-Dwellings, or artificial Islands 

 called " Crannoges," in Ireland , 8 



CHAPTER III. 



FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT PERIOD. 



Delta and Alluvial Plain of the Nile — Burnt Bricks in Egypt before the Roman 

 Era — Borings in 1851-54 — Ancient Mounds in the Valley of the Ohio — 

 Their Antiquity — Sepulchral Mound at Santos in Brazil — Delta of the 

 Mississippi — Ancient Human Remains in Coral Reefs of Florida — Changes in 

 Physical Geography in the Human Period — Buried Canoes in marine Strata 

 near Glasgow — Upheaval since the Roman Occupation of the Shores of the 

 Firth of Forth — Fossil Whales near Stirling — Upraised marine Strata of 

 Sweden on Shores of the Baltic and the Ocean — Attempts to compute their 

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