CONTENTS. 



AESTHETIC. 



PAQB 



I. MONT BLANC AND THE MER DE GLACE, 13 



II. ASCENT OF MONT BLANC, 59 



III. THE BEAUTIFUL, 100 



CHRONOLOGICAL. 



IV. THE OLD AGE OF CONTINENTS, .... 122 

 V. OBLITERATED CONTINENTS, ..... 134 



VI. A GRASP OF GEOLOGIC TIME, .... 152 



CLIMATIC. 



VII. GEOLOGICAL SEASONS, .._.._ 175 



VIII; THE CLIMATE OF THE LAKE REGION, - . 200 



IX. MAMMOTHS AND MASTODONS, ..... 234 



HISTORICAL. 



X. SALT ENTERPRISE IN MICHIGAN, ... 255 

 XI. A REMARKABLE MAORI MANUSCRIPT, . . .282 



PHILOSOPHICAL. 



XII. THE GENEALOGY OF SHIPS, .... 301 



XIII. HUXLEY AND EVOLUTION, ..... 319 



XIV. GROUNDS AND CONSEQUENCES OF EVOLUTION, - 332 

 XV. THE METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE, . . . .358 



