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INDEX. 



Immaterial principle revealed, 306 seq 

 Insects of Coal Period, 245. 

 luterual heat, 84. 

 Inversion of strata, 78. 

 Invertebrates, reign of, 230 seq, 

 Iron and its geology, 125. 

 Iron in earth's center, 129. 



Joggins, coal beds at, 177. 

 J upiter in his stormy stage, 224. 

 Jurassic mammals, 253. 



Karaboghaz, Gulf of, 130. 

 Kazwini, opinions of, 69. 

 Kilauea, eruption of, 90 ; lava of, 221. 

 King Crab and his relatives, 190 seq. 

 Knox County gas, 142. 



Labyrinthodonts.177,245, 247, 260. 



Laccolites, 95. 



Lacustrine deposits, 41. 



Lffilaps, 251. 



Lakelets, origin of, 280. 



Lakes, Tertiary, 269. 



Lakes the Great, floods of, 41 ; inun- 

 dation by, 42, 43. 



Lamellibranchs, 193. 



Laminae, 63. 



Lamination, 63 ; oblique, 63. 



Lands of primitive times, 233, 235. 



Langford, N. P., on "Giantess gey- 

 ser," 82. 



Langley, S. P., on solar heat, 212. 



Lapilli, 86. 



Laurentide Hills, 112. 



Lava of Vesuvius, 85. 



Lavas, ancient, 91; on Pacific slope, 

 92, 269, 275; in interior, 93; ages of 

 eruption of, 94, 269 ; Triassic, 250 ; 

 Tertiary, 269 ; Quaternary, 275, 281. 



Lead mines, 124. 



Leadville mining district, 124. 



Lepidodendron, 174, 241, 245, 246, 247. 



Lessons from fossil fishes, 240. 



Levees, 49. 



Lewis, H. C., on early man, 282. 



Lewiston escarpment, 43. 



Life, dawn of, 20 ; immaterial princi- 

 ple of, 307. 



Limbs of vertebrates, 255, 301. 



Limestone, 40; Devonian, 179; Silur- 

 ian, 186 ; how formed in primeval 

 ocean, 225. 



Limonite, 126. 



Limulus, 190. 



Liugula, 192, 195, 234. 



Links missing, 304. 



Liquid earth, 220. 



Lizards, 251, 261. 



Lodes, 28. See " Comstock Lode." 



Lodestoiie, 127. 



Lost rocks, 14. 



Machaerodus, 257. 

 Mackinac Island, 41. 

 Magnetite, 127. 

 Mallet, R., on earthquakes, 103. 



Mammals, reign of, 73; extinct spe- 

 cies of, 154 seq., 162 seq. ; Triassic, 

 252; Jurassic, 253; in Bad Lands, 

 163 ; on Atlantic coast, 165 ; in Ala- 

 bama, 165 ; Cseuozoic, 254. 



Mammoth, 155 ; Siberian, 156, 274, 284. 



Mammoth Hot Springs, 83. 



Man, reign of, 73 ; prophesied, 243, 302 ; 

 structural rank of, 255; in the 

 light of science 300 seq. ; limbs of, 

 302; birth place of, 302; the last 

 term, 303; a cosmopolite, 303; 

 marks a period, 304 ; advent of, re- 

 cent, 304 ; of geology not inferior, 

 304 ; revelation of mind, 305. 



Man, primitive, advent of, 28 seq.; an- 

 tiquity of, 281, 286 ; a Mongoloid in 

 America, 282 ; and in Europe, 286, 

 304; a Glacial phenomenon, 282; 

 contemporaries of, 284 ; character- 

 istics of, 285. 



Marine Invertebrates, reign of, 72. 



Marl, 35. 



Marsh, O. C., on fossil mammals, 166, 

 253 ; on fossil reptiles, 172. 



Marshall Sandstone, 242. 



Marshes, origin of, 48. 



Mashing together of rocks, 116,117. 



Mastodon, 155, 257. 



Mauna Loa, eruption of, 90. 



Mechanical adaptations, 309. 



Megatherium, 159. 



Meniscoessus, 254. 



Menodus, 257. 



Mesozoic, Great System, 72; events, 

 241 seq.; rocks and fossils, 167 seq.; 

 246 seq.; coal, 173; erosions, 267. 



Metamorphism, 117, 118, 202, 231. 



Metcalf, W., on Pittsburgh gas, 144. 



Meteors, 210. 



Method in nature, 207, 259, 263, 300, 

 301 ; the evidence of mind, 310. 



Method of creation, 294 seq.; 306 seq. 



