INDEX. 



Aconcagua, 311 

 Affluents, 4 

 Africa, 303, 308 

 Air, 87 



Alluvium, 142, 281 

 Alps. the. 141, 154 

 Amazin, the, 313 

 Amenca, 186 — 188, 311, 312 

 Ammonia, 85 

 Ampney spnng, 37 

 Analysis, iii 

 Andes, the, 64. 311 

 Anemones, 247 

 Animal remams, 225 246 

 Anio, falls of the, 122 

 Antarctic circle, 356 



sea, 178 

 Anthracite, 244 

 Aphelion, 354 

 Aquafortis, 86 



Arctic regions, 61, 64, 163, 314 

 Artesian wells, 33 

 Asiatic islands, 310 

 Atlantic Ocean, 42, 167, 174 — 178, 263^ 



267, 270,291, 292, 300, 311 

 Atlas mountains, 308 

 Atmometers, 69 



Atmosphere, 40, 50, 66, 75, 8g, 106 

 Atolls, 254, 260 

 Australia, 240, 253 

 - Auvergne, 121, 194, 203 

 Avalanches, 154 

 Az.te, 79 



B 



Bagnigge Wells, 28 



Bagshot sand, 25 — 37, 287 



Barnsley, rainfall at, 49 



Barometers, 91. 92 



Barrier-reefs, 253, 258, 259, 260 



Basins, is, 20, 214 (.s^^ThamesBasm, Sic.) 



Bathj hot springs at, 202 



Battersea, 28 



Bedford Level, 325 



Behring's Strait, 178 



Bermuda, 176 



Better-bed coal, 239 



Bihn, siliceous deposit at, 23J, 232 



Black Sea, 307 



" Blocs perches," 164 



Boihng-point, 67 



Borax, preparation of, 203 



*'Bjre," 180 



Borings for wells, 32, 273 



Bovey Tracey coal, 244 



Buxwell sprmg. 37 



Brahmaputra, the, 145 



Brain-stone coral, 252 



Brent, the, 5 



B.-entford, 28, 281 



Brick -earth, 280—284, 287 



Bristol Channel, 180 



British Channel, 30, 128 



British Isles, 149,164, 183, 185, 203, 211. 299 



" Brown coal," 244 



Cachar, earthquake at, 188 



Cainczjic series. 290 



Caldy, cave in isle of, 123 



Camden Square, rainfall m, 48 



Cannon Street, secMon in. 275, 296 



Canons, 135, 137 



Carbonic acid. So — 85, 224 



Carboniferous pericd, 377 



Cardinal points, 6 



Caspian Sea, 306 



Catchment-basins, 34, 145 



Caverns, 122, 283 



Cells, 220 



Celts, 286 



Chalk, the, 37, 166, 213, 273, 290 



"Challenger" expedititn, 176, 177, 192, 



232, 261, 269 

 Charcoal, 238 

 Charles's Wain, 9 



