CONTENTS 



OF THE SECOND VOLUME 



CHAPTER I. 



Chiloe — General Aspect — Boat Excursion — Native Indians — 

 Castro — Tame Fox — Ascend San Pedro — Chonos Archipelago 

 — Peninsula of Tres Montes — Granitic Range — Boat-wrecked 

 Sailors — Low's Harbour — Wild Potato— Formation of Peat 

 — Myopotamus, Otter, and Mice — Cheucau and Barking- 

 bird — Opetiorhynchus — Singular character of Ornithology — ■ 

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CHAPTER H. 



San Carlos, Chiloe — Osorno in Eruption, contemporaneously with 

 Aconcagua and Coseguina — Ride to Cucao — Impenetrable For- 

 ests — Valdivia — Indies — Earthquake — Concepcion — Great 

 Earthquake — Rocks fissured — Appearance of the former Towns 

 — The Sea black and boiling — Direction of the Vibrations — 

 Stones twisted round — Great Wave — Permanent Elevation of 

 the Land — Area of Volcanic Phenomena — The Connectioa 

 between the Elevatory and Eruptive Forces — Causes of Earth- 

 quakes— Slow Elevation of Mountain-chains . . . 31 



CHAPTER HI. 



Valparaiso— Portillo Pass— Sagacity of Mules— Mountain Tor- 

 rents — Mines, how discovered — Proofs of the gradual Elevation 

 of the Cordillera — Effect of Snow on Rocks — Geological Struc- 

 ture of the two main Ranges, their distinct Origin and Upheav- 

 al — Great Subsidence — Red Snow — Winds — Pinnacles of 

 Snow — Dry and clear Atmosphere — Electricity — Pampas — Zo- 

 ology of the opposite Sides of the Andes — Locusts — Great Bugs 

 — Mendoza — Uspallata Pass — Silicified Trees buried as they 

 grew — Incas' Bridge — Badness of the Passes exaggerated — 

 Cumbre— Casuchas — Valparaiso 60 



CHAPTER IV. 



Coast-road to Coquimbo — Great Loads carried by the Miners — 

 Coquimbo — Earthquake — Step-formed Terraces — Absence of 

 recent Deposits — Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Forma- 



