INDEX. 



¥=Fu, departmental city; C= Cliau, sometimes departmental-, but generally district-city: 'ii=^ liien, district 

 town ; T^ Ting, and Ts = Tsang, smaller towns. 



Abel, Clarke, 51, 52, 65 



on height of Lake 

 Lo, 48 

 Abura, tufa-sandstone at, 



99 

 Achase, tufa-conglomerate 



near, 98 

 acioularis, Podocarpites, 



123 

 Actinoptychus, 127 

 Agates, lit), 117, 118 

 Agate pebbles on plains of 



Mongolia, 70 

 Ainos, settlement of, 90 

 Alacodiscus, 127 

 Alluvial watersheds, 28 

 deposits near Itu, 7 

 loam deposit near Bili- 

 ka Noor, 71 

 Altai mountains, 67, 68 

 rocks of Eastern, 74 

 Altan Kingan mountains, 



67 

 Alteration of rock by vol- 

 canic gases, 9S 

 Alum produced by altera- 

 tion of felspar, 96 

 and sulphur on Esan, 86 

 in China, 56, 57, 58 

 Amaksa, limestone and 



sandstone on, 107 

 Amber, 116, 117, 118 

 Amethyst, 117, 118 

 Amherst's embassy, ob- 



seryations of Lord, 7 

 Ammonites from N. Yesso, 



106 

 Amur river, 2, 67 



recent terraces along, 

 108 

 Amygdaloid, 22 



in conglomerate of Oou- 



ta, 100, 104 

 of W. Yesso, age of, 101 

 of the Ousubetz creek, 



101 

 in Kunnui gravel, 91 

 at Kxinnui, 91 

 near Kunnui, 91 

 Analyses of Chinese and 

 Japanese coals, 123 

 of Chinese coals : 

 Futau (bitum.), 15, 



123 

 Hsingshun (bitum.), 



15 

 Tatsau (anthr.), 16, 



123 

 17 August, 1866. 



Analyses of Chingshui 

 (bitum.), 17, 124 

 Tehyih, 19, 124 

 Yiugwo, 19, 125 

 Tashhitang, 19, 124 

 Ancient lake area, present 

 drainage of, 44 

 gold washings, remains 



of, at Kunnui, 93 

 method of gold wash- 

 ing, 91 

 lake system of northern 



China, 40 

 lakes of northern China, 



islands in, 40 

 lake deposit independ- 

 ent of pi'esent water- 

 courses, 32 

 lake loam a river-silt, 42 

 lakes, extent of, 44 

 watch-towers near the 

 Te Hai, 30 

 Angara river, tables along, 



75, 76 

 Angouli Noor, 26 

 Anki (H.), 115 

 Anko, 58 



anthracite at, 65 

 Anthracite, 11, 122 

 in China, 119 



localities of, 56, 57, 

 58 

 and coals, analyses of, 



123, 124, 125 



of Tatsau mine, 15, 123 



assay, production, 



and cost of, 16, 123 



of Kiming, 22 



from Tashhitang mine, 



analyses of, 19, 124 

 of Yingwo mine, analy- 

 ses of, 19, 125 

 of Kwei basin, 6, 124 

 Anticlinal axis of south- 

 eastern peninsula of 

 Yesso, 106 

 ridges, 44 



central axis of China, 2, 

 63 

 Aphanite at Oouta, 100, 

 101 

 of western Yesso, rela- 

 tive age of, 104 

 near Futoro, 100 

 Appalachians, 69 



analogous to the Sini- 

 ans, 62, 68 

 Appendix No. 1, 119 



Appendix No. 2, 123 

 No. 3, 126 

 Arachnoidiscus, 127 

 Aralo-Caspian depression, 



69, 77 

 Arch of marble at Kiyung- 



kwan, 12 

 Arctic Ocean, 74, 77 

 Arenaceous limestone of 



the steppe deposit, 71 

 Argillaceous and talco- 

 argillaceous rocks 

 near Nagasaki, 107 

 rock with fossil plants, 



on Kaiyanobetz, 97 

 schist in Kiugau moun- 

 tains, 68 

 Argillite with vermiform 

 fossil, 102, 104, 105 

 at Kunnui, 91 

 at Isoya, 93 

 near Achase, 98 

 near Washinoki, 90 

 metamorphic, at Yu- 

 rup, 102 

 Argillites of Ichinowatari, 



80 

 Argun river, 68 

 Art based on the curious 

 in nature in China and 

 Japan, 62 

 Artificial deposit in a lime 



quarry, 12 

 Ascent to the plateau north 



of Kalgan, 25 

 Asterolampra, 127 

 Auliscus, 127 

 Aulopora tubseformis, 55 

 Auriferous gravel of Kun- 

 nui, 91, 105, 106 

 Australian coal flora, 119 

 Ava, 66 

 Axial granite, 2 

 Axis, central anticlinal, of 

 China, 2, 63 

 east of coast range, 65 

 coast, of elevation, 65 

 Aying, 112, 116 



Bagley, Rev. P., 56, 57 

 Baikal, lake, 75 



volcanic rocks of lake, 



75 

 N.E., S. W. trend of, 1 

 Baltic, 69 



Baltimore, 122, 128 

 Bamboo, species of, on 

 Yesso, 79 



Barabinski steppe, 69, 77 

 Barkoul, 60 



Barrier range, 23, 31, 32, 

 63 

 gorge traversing, 32 

 metamorphic 



schists of, 32 

 hornblendic rooks 

 of, 35, 36 

 Barro'w's estimate of silt 

 discharged by Yellow 

 river, 49 

 Bars isolating lakes, 41 

 Barytes in Yurup veins, 



102 

 Basalt hills, 74 

 Basaltic lavas of the pla- 

 teau, 38 

 cones on the Gobi 

 desert, 73 

 Bay of Odaszu, 106 



of Yeddo, 107 

 Beds of chert in limestone, 



12 

 Beech trees on Yesso, 93 

 Belgium, 54 

 Betz (creek), 90 

 Biddulphia, 127 

 Bilika Noor, beds of lime- 

 stone, gypsum, etc., 

 near, 71 

 erosion near, 77 

 earth from, under mi- 

 croscope, 127 

 Eiot, E.,48, 56, 57 



memoir of, on the 

 Yellow river, 47 

 on the Yukung, 47 

 Birch trees on Yesso, 93 

 Bituminous coal at Ching- 

 shui, 17, 124 

 Blackiston, Capt., 5, 6, 8, 

 64 

 observations of, in Sz'- 

 chuen, 62 

 Black slate near Kanchau, 



52 

 Black sea, 77 

 Blake, Prof. W. P., 80, 126 

 Blast, first, made in Japan, 

 89 

 furnaces on European 

 model smelting 

 iron ore in Nam- 

 bu, 88 

 European, at Kobi, 



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