336 SUMMAKtf OF THE CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 



Salzwerk, near Minden), the greatest depth yet reached below the 

 level of the sea. The hot springs near Carthage led Patricks, 

 Bishop of Pertusa, in the 3rd century, to form just conjectures 

 respecting the cause of the increase of temperature in the interior 

 of the earth . 248 



The Vital Force, or the Rhodian Genius -p. 249 to p. 257. 



Note to "The Vital Force, or the Rhodian Genius"^. 259 to p. 263. 



The Rhodian Genius, the development of a physiological idea in a 

 mythical garb. Difference of views respecting the hypothesis of 

 peculiar vital forces 259, 260 



The difficulty of satisfactorily reducing the vital phenomena of 

 organisation to physical and chemical laws, is principally founded on 

 the complication of the phenomena, and on the multiplicity of 

 simultaneously acting forces, as well as the varying conditions of 

 the activity of those forces. Definition of the expressions " ani- 

 mate" and " inanimate" substances. Criteria derived from the 

 composition of the elements after a substance has been separated 

 into parts by external agency are the simple enunciation of 

 facts 260263 



The Plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient residence of the Inca Atahnallpa, 



and the first view of the Pacific from the crest of the Andes 



p. 265 to p. 302. 



Quina-producing forests in the valleys of Loxa. First use of the 

 fever-bark in Europe; the Countess of Chinchon, wife of the 

 Viceroy 267269 



