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Swanage Bay excavated by sea, i. 531 

 * Swatch' in the Eay of Eengal, i. 475 

 Sweden, rise of land in, i. 314 ; ii. 180- 



196 

 — map of, Ii. 184 



sinking of land in south of, ii. 190 

 Swinburn, Capt., on Graham Island, ii. 



60, 62 



Switzerland, towns destroyed by land- 

 slips in, ii. 513 



Sykes, Colonel, on rainfall in India, i. 

 330 



Syria, earthquakes in, i. 594 ; ii. 89 



TAELE of fossiliferons strata, i. 139 

 varying excentricities of 



earth's orbit, i. 293 

 Tahiti, coral reef of, ii. 592 

 Talus of Monte Nuovo, i. 615 



Tamed animals often will not breed, ii. 

 313 



Targioni on geology of.Tuscany, i. 59 



— ■ — formation of limestone in Tus- 

 cany, ii. 610 



Taxodium Distichum, ii. 506 



Tay, estuary of, encroachment of sea in, 

 i. 508 



Taylor on waste of Norfolk coast, i. 513 

 Eovd. E., on New Zealand earth- 

 quake, ii. 82 



Mr. E. C, on stalagmitic limestone 

 of Cuba, ii. 522 



Teatro Grande, on Etna, ancient lava 

 current of, ii. 13 



Temperature, formula for computing, i. 

 294 



how far shown by extinct orders and 

 genera, i. 215 



lowered by fog and melting of snow, 

 i. 271 



- effects of currents in equalisino:, i. 

 243 



of Glacial period, i. 288 

 space, i. 278 



supposed variations in, i. 301 

 See Climate and Heat. 

 Temples buried in Cashmere, ii. 553 

 Terraces of Lake Superior, i. 421 

 Terranuova, subsidence near, ii. 122 

 Terrestrial changes, the system of, i. 325 

 — and solar heat, supposed diminution 

 of, ii. 213, 241 



Tertiary formations, geographical 

 changes implied by, i. 251 



fossils of the newest, i. 311 



fossil mammals of successive, i. 

 160 



deposits, climate of, chiefly warmer 

 than at present, i. 199-203 

 Testa on Monte Eolca fish, i. (S5 



TIIA 



Testacea. See Mollusks and Shells. 



— burrowing, ii. 575 

 Texture, transition, of rocks, i. 141 



Thames, valley of. Tertiary strata in, i, 

 192 



— buried vessels in alluvial plain of, 

 ii. 547 



Thanet, Isle of, loss of land in, i. 525 

 Theophrastus, opinions of, i. 19, 20 

 Thera in Santorin, eruption and earth- 

 quakes of, 1650, ii. 67 



Thermal springs frequent in volcanic re- 

 gions, i. 394 



Thomson, Dr., on buried temples of 

 Cashmere, ii. 553 



Thury, M. H. de, on Artesian wells, i. 

 390, 393 



Thylaco'thermm Prevostii, figured, i. 159 

 Tibet, yak or wild ox of, in ice, i. 190 

 Tidal currents, depositing power of, i. 565 

 Tides, difference in the rise of the, i. 493 



— height to which they rise, i. 493 



— their destroying and transporting 

 power, i. 565 



absence of internal, a proof against 

 central fluidity, ii. 208, 241 



Tierra del Fuego, temperate climate of. 

 i. 241 



Tigris and Euphrates, their union a mo- 

 dern event, i. 484 ' 



— delta of the, i. 484 



Time, prepossessions against lengtli of 

 past, i. 91 



Tivoli, flood of, i. 354 



travertin of, i. 405 

 Torell, Mr., on date of marine upraised 



strata in Sweden, ii. 193 

 Torqua}^, submerged forest of, i. 544 

 Torre del Greco overwhelmed bv lava, 



i. 65 



Torrents, action of, in widening valleys, 



i. 344, 346 

 Totten, Col., on expansion of stone by 



heat, ii. 235 



Towns overwhelmed by sandfloods, ii. 



508 

 Toynbee, Capt. H., on moths flying far 



from land, ii. 380 



Trade winds, i. 497 



Traditions of deluges, i. 593; ii. 154 



Transition texture, i. 141 



Transitional forms between species, ii. 

 339 



Transmutation, objections urged against 



theory of, ii. 261 

 Trap rocks of many different ages, i. 117 

 Travers, Mr. Locke, on rapid spread of 



European plants in New Zealand, ii. 

 453 



Travertin of the Elsa, i. 400 



San Vignone, i. 400 





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