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SEA 



Sea, depth of, compared to height of land, 



i. 265 

 extent of open, at north pole, i. 



285 

 encroachments of, on coasts, i. 502, 



548, 552, 556, 559 

 beaches, progressive movement of, 



i. 531 



— -whether caused by attraction of 



ice-cap, i. 290 

 preservation of human remains in 



the, ii. 542 

 proofs of permanence of level of, ii. 



181 



retreat of during Lisbon earthquake, 



ii. 150 



— weed, distribution of species, ii. 391 

 Sedgwick, Professor, on Devonian strata, 



i. 320 



on organic remains in fissures, 



ii. 522 



Sediment of the Mississippi, i. 458 



— rate of subsidence of some kinds of, 



i. 573 



— area over -which it may be tran- 

 sported by currents, i. 574 



— laws governing deposition of, i. 573 



— brought down by Ganges, i. 481 



— transfer of by rivers and currents, ii. 

 238 



Sedimentary deposition, causes which 

 occasion a shifting of the areas of, i. 

 307 



— uniformity of change in, i. 307 

 Seeds carried on feet and in stomachs of 



birds, ii. 396, 421 



— collected by savages for food, ii. 286 



conveyed to islands by icebergs, ii. 

 419 



Selection, natural, compared to artificial, 

 ii. 316 



— by man * unconscious ' and * methodi- 

 cal,' ii. 288 



Selkirk, Lord, on rise of land in Sweden, 



ii. 187 

 Sequence of formations explained, i. 324 

 Serapis, temple of Jupiter, at its period 



of greatest depression, ii. 172 



ii. 171 



ii. 165 



174 



elevation and subsidence of, 

 ground plan of environs of, 



history of, ii. 168 

 described, ii. 170 

 date of modern subsidence, ii. 



Serra del Solfizio, on Etna, dip and curve 



of lavas of, ii. 15 

 Sertularia, producing medusae, ii, 327 

 Seven Sleepers, legend of, i. 97 

 Severn, tides in estuary of, 494 



SIL 



Shakespeare's Cliif, waste of, i. 526 

 Sharpe, Mr. S., on deposition of Nile 

 mud, i. 436 



on earthquake at Lisbon, ii. 148 

 Sheep, Norfolk, hording apart, ii. 311 

 Shell-marl, animal remains imbedded in, 

 ii. 536, 565, 571 



lakes of, ii. 536, 565, 571 

 Shells of Carboniferous period, i. 228 



the drift as proofs of climate, i. 

 192 



marine, in New Orleans Artesian 

 well, i. 459 

 - supposed fossil, of Somma, i. 637 



upraised, of the Ealtic, i. 314 

 ■ fossil, of delta of the Amazons, i. 



467 



— importance of, i. 312 



number of recent, in different Tertiary 

 periods, i. 312 

 burrowing, ii. 575 

 fossil, at great depths, ii. 575 



in upraised marine strata in Swe- 

 den, ii. 193 



wdde range of some, ii. 373. See 

 MoUusks. 



Sheppoy, Isle of, waste of coasts in, i, 

 522 



Shetland Isles, action of the sea on, i. 

 502 



rock masses, drifted by the sea 



in, i. 503 



effects of lightning on rocks in, 

 i. 503 



— shelly formation now in progress 

 near, ii. 576 

 Shingle beaches, i. 531-534 

 Ships, fossil, ii. 546-548 



— number of wrecked, ii. 542-545 

 Shoals and submarine valleys in Ger- 

 man Ocean, i. 568 



Siberia, map of, i. 182 



— lowland of, i. 181 



- — extension of lowland of, i. 188 

 Siberian mammoths, i. 182-191 



— rhinoceros entire in frozen soil of 

 Siberia, i. 183 



Sichet, Dr., on deafness in cats, ii. 314 

 Sicily, earthquakes in, i. 594; ii. 113, 

 159, 519 



— recent testacea in limestone of, i. 

 313 



mud volcanos of, ii. 76 

 Sidell, Colonel, on mud-lumps of Mis- 

 sissippi, i. 451, 452 

 Silex deposited by springs, i. 408 

 Siliceous springs of Azores, i. 408 



Silkworms, improved by man's selec- 

 tion, ii. 290 



Silliman, Prof., on buried schooner in 

 Nova Scotia, ii. 548 



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