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INDEX. 



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Fortis on Italian geology, 62 



— and Testa on fossil fish, 65 

 Fossiliferous series, causes of breaks in, 317 



— strata, table of, 139 



Fossils, early speculations concerning, 34—38 

 Fossil shells, height of, in Alps, Andes, and 



Himalaya, 144; 

 Fracastoro, views of, 31 

 France, waste of coast in, 547 

 Freyberg, school of, 6S— 72 

 Fuchsel, 1762, opinions of, 63 

 Fundy, Bay of, wave called the ' bore/ in, 560 

 rain-prints in, 334 



GALAPAGOS Archipelago, reptiles of, 221 

 Ganges, Artesian borings in delta of, 478 

 Ganges and Brahmapootra, mud of, 571 

 Ganges, antiquity of delta of, 4S0 



— delta of the, 470 



— deposits in delta of, 474 



— islands formed by, 472 



— sediment brought down by, 481 

 Gaps, causes of, in fossiliferous strata, 318 

 Gastaldi on Miocene blocks of the Superga, 



206 

 Geikie, A., on second advance of glaciers, 



196 

 Gemmellaro on Etna eruption, 357 

 Generelli's illustrations of Moro, 52—56 

 Geneva, Lake, delta of llhone in, 417 



sediment deposited in, S08 



Geographical causes of change of climate 



more influential than astronomical, 273 



predominant in affecting climate, 283 



Geography, changes in, in Secondary and 



Primary periods, 255 



— former changes in, how affecting climate, 



261 



— changes in, revealed by geology, 248 



since the Glacial period, 250 



Eocene period, 251 



Geological epochs, dates and duration of, 300 



— Society of London founded, SQ 

 Geology, modern progress of, 87—89 



— distinct from Cosmogony, 4 



— historical progress of, Chaps. II. to V. 



— speculative tendency of early, 324 



— defined, 1 



— compared to History, 2, 4, 92 



— new school of, 85 



— prejudices which have retarded, 90 

 Georgia, U.S., new ravines formed in, 344 



— South. See South Georgia. 

 Gerbanites, theory of, 22 



German Ocean, shoals and valleys in, 568 



Gesner on petrifactions, 60 

 Geysers of Iceland, 409 

 Gibbosity of A trio in 1857, 610 

 Gibraltar, Straits of, 562 

 Glacial epoch, 19 1 

 changes of level since, 194 



— period, temperature of, 288 

 — possible dates of, 291—296 



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Glacial period, comparative duration of, 300 



species living before and after, identi- 

 cal, 313 



enduring through all phases of preces- 

 sion, 281 



hypothesis of greater warmth in, 



288 



— periods not constantly recurring, 299 



Glacier, moraines of, 368 



— supposed, at mouth of Amazons, Agassiz 



on, 468 



— view of, with moraines, 368 



— -lake of Switzerland, 376 

 Glaciers, motion of, 369—371 



— near the sea in New Zealand, 211, 224 



— of Alps receding before 10th century, 278 



— carrying and scoring power of, 374, 375 



Glen Tilt, granite veins of, 75 



Godwin-Austen, Mr., on stones drifted by 



ice, 218 

 current deposits, 572 



on valley of English Channel, 532 



Porlock Bay submerged forest, 545 



Golden age, doctrine of, whence derived, 13 



Goodwin Sands, 525 



Gould's survey of Mississppi delta, 1764, 461 



Granite, disintegration of, 413 



— formed at different periods, 142 



— veins observed by Hutton in Glen Tilt, 



75 



— of the Hartz, Werner on, 70 

 Greece, traditions of deluges in, 594 



— earthquakes in, 592 



Greek Archipelago, volcanos of the, 592 



Greeks, geology of, 14—23 



Green, Colonel, on fossil fish of Vicksburg, 



464 

 Greenland, sinking of land in, 131 



— why colder than Lapland, 237 

 Groins described, 531 



— effects of, 566 



Grotto del Cane, carbonic acid in, 411 



Ground-ice, 366 



transporting rocks in Baltic, 385 



Guatemala, active volcanos in, 583 



Guidotti, Professor, cited, 199 



Guinea current, 500 



Guiscardi, Signor, on stony beds of Somma, 



638 



— cited, 634 



Gulf-stream, causes and velocity of, 499— 501 



course and warming effects of, 244 



Gunther, Mr., on range of reptiles, 229 

 Guvot, M., on glacier motion, 371 



nAARLEM, land gained from lake of, 552 

 Habkeren blocks, disputed origin of, 



209 



Hall, Captain B., on flood of Bagnes, 353 



trade winds, 497 



geology of New York, 359, 361 



waste of Mississippi banks, 444 



snags of Mississippi, 446 



— Sir James, experiments on rocks, 75 



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