CONTENTS. XIX 



MINERALOGICAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 



BY PROFESSOR JAMESON. 



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A. On the Subsidence of Strata 187 



B. On Primitive Rocks 188 



C. Crystallized Marbles resting on Shelly Strata 190 



D. Ro]led Masses upon the Mountains of Jura..... ib, 



E. Salisbury Craigs *. 191 



F. On the Alluvial Land of the Danish Islands in the Bal- 



tic, and on the Coast of Sleswick.. ib. 



GeestLand. 192 



Marsch Lands 194 



Great Rise of the Ocean 197 



Frisian Colony ib. 



Enclosing the Marsches 198 



Uniting the Islands.... 199 



Building of Dikes ., 202 



G. On the Sand Flood 205 



H. Action of the Sea upon Coasts..* 208 



I. On Coral Islands 210 



K. On the Diminution of the Waters of the Ocean 214 



L. Werner's Views of the Natural History of Petrifactions 217 



M. On the Distribution of Petrifactions in the Different 



Classes of Rocks 219 



TRANSITION ROCKS. 



1. Transition Limestone , ib. 



2. Greywacke , 220 



3. Clay Slate ib. 



4. Greywacke Slate ,,,,..,.,. * ,....., ib. 



