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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 



XV 



VI um 



CHAPTER XLV. 



BURYING OF FOSSILS IN ALLUVIAL DEPOSITS AND IN CAVES. 



Fossils in Alluvium — Effects of sudden Inundations — Terrestrial Animals most' 

 abundantly preserved in Alluvium where Earthquakes prevail — Marine AUu- 



Buried Towns— Effects of Landslips — Organic Eemains in Fissures and 

 Caves — Form and Dimensions of Caverns - Their probable Origin — Closed 

 Basins and Subterranean Eivers of the Morea — Katavothra — Formation of 

 Breccias with Bed Cement— Human Eemains imbedded in Morea- 

 on Litermlxture of Human Eemains and Bones of Extinct Quadrupeds as 

 proving the former Co-existence of Man with those Lost Species —Bone-brec- 

 cias formed in Open Fissures and Caves PAGE 511 



Sclimerling 



loes to -„,t Lis. 



^^ting.poinUr 

 ionary when iis 



marked Human 



Ogical Provinces 



5— Man, an Old- 



I Papuan Eaces 



Itiple Origin of 



r of his Organi- 



lese 



a*«-9<ied from 3 



ual Diminution 

 liate Forms be- 

 ship of Miocene 



1 according to 



^ ipacity of the 



u-.fher there iS 



-.ural Selection 



loped accord- 



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CHAPTER XLVI. 



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IMBEDDING OF ORGANIC REMAINS IN SUBAQUEOUS DEPOSITS 



Division of the Subject — Imbedding of Terrestrial Animals and Plants 



Increased 



Specific Gravity of Wood sunk to great Depths in the Sea — ^Drift- Timber 

 carried by the Mackenzie into Slave Lake and Polar Sea — Floating Trees in the 

 Mississippi — In the Gulf-stream — On the Coast of Iceland, Spitzbergen, and 

 Labrador — Submarine Forests — Examples on Coast of Hampshire and in Eay of 

 Fundy — Mineralisation of Plants — Imbedding of Insects— Of Keptiles — Bones 

 of Birds -why rare — Imbedding of Terrestrial Quadrupeds by Kiver Floods — 

 Skeletons in recent Shell-marl — Imbedding of Mammiferous Eemains ■ in 

 Marine Strata. 524 



r 



CHAPTER XLVII. 



IMBEDDING OF THE REMAINS OF MAN AND HIS WORKS IN SUBAQUEOUS 



STRATA, 



Drifting of Human Bodies to the Sea by River Inundations — How Human Corpses 



may be preserved in Eecent Deposits 

 Wrecked Vessels- 



Fossil Skeletons of Men — Number of 



-Fossil Canoes, Ships, and Works of Art— Chemical Changes 

 -which Metallic Articles have undergone after long Submergence — Imbedding 



of Cities and Forests in Subaqueous Strata by Subsidence' 

 in 1819- 



Earthquake of Cutch 



-Buried Temples of Cashmere— Berkeley's Arguments for the Eecent 

 Date of the Creation of Man— Monuments of Pre-historic Man discovered in 

 Post- tertiary Strata 541 



CHAPTEE XLVIII. 



IMBEDDING OF AQUATIC SPECIES IN SUBAQUEOUS STRATA. 



Inhumation of Freshwater Plants and Animals— Shell-marl— Fossilised Seed- 

 vessels and Stems of Chara — Eecent Deposits in American Lakes— Freshwater 

 Species drifted into Seas and Estuaries— Lewes Levels— Alternations of Marine 

 and Freshwater Strata, how caused — Imbedding of Marine Plants and Animals 

 Cetacea stranded on our Shores— Littoral and Estuary Testacea swept into 



the deep Sea 



■Burrowing 



Shells— Living Testacea found at considerable 



Depths— Blending of Organic Eemains of different' Ages 



565 



VOL, II. 



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