INDEX 



Saharan desert, The, 22 



St. Pierre, Destruction of, by volcano, 186 



Salt Lakes, 57 



Sambon, Dr., 116 



Samotherium, The, 266 



San Francisco, Earthquake at, 140, 161 



San Gabriel River, effect of earthquake on, 141 



Sand-banks and mud-banks, how they are made, 20 



Sand-dunes, how they are made, 45 



Saturn as an abode of life, 119 



Scaly Saurians, 248 



Scandinavia, Ice in, 74 



Schist, 200 



Scotland, Ice in, 74 



Sea, depths of the, 189 ; in the Silurian Age, 210 



Sea, The, encroachment on land, 17 ; Isle of Wight, 17 ; 



British Isles, 17 ; Florida, 18 ; Heligoland, 18 ; Erosion, 



19; its work, 19 

 Seaquakes, 143 ; Chilian coast, 144 ; the Florence Nightingale, 



145 ; sensation of, 145 ; origin of, 147 

 Sea-water, The action of, 65 

 Sediment deposited by rivers, 20, 51 

 Sedimentary rocks, 104, 129 

 See, Dr. J. J., his theory concerning the interior of the 



earth, 88 



Seismology, 23 ; in Japan, 153 

 Seismometers, 24, 153 

 Shape of the Earth, The, 31 

 Sharks, 216 



Shingle, how it accumulated, 60 

 Shells found on dry land, 19 ; forests covered by, 19 



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