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INDEX. 



ICE 



Iceland, icebergs stranded on, 215 



— Miocene strata of, 201 



— geysers of, 409 



Ichthyosaurus in lias, lat. 77 Q N., 219, 232 

 Ictis of Diodorus Siculus, 542 

 Igneous action. See Volcanic. 



— causes, antagonistic to running water, 305, 



575 



— forces, supposed former intensity of, 117 



Infusorial tuff of Pompeii, 644 



Inland seas, deltas of, 417, 420, 421 



Inorganic causes of change, 327 



Insects, in Devonian strata, 157 



' Insular ' climates, 239 



Inter-glacial periods, 195 



Ischia, drawing of volcanic region of, 601 



— hot springs of, 409 



— volcanic eruptions of, 598, 605 

 Island, new, in Mediterranean, 1707, 51 

 Islands, destruction of, in Baltic, 554 

 on coast of Scotland, 506 



— formed by Ganges, 472 



Isle of Wight, waste of its shores, 530 

 Isothermal lines, their curves in Europe and 

 America, 236, 239 



— map of mean annual, 238 

 Isothermals, deflection of, in Glacial period, 



297 



Italy, alternation of earthquakes between 

 Syria and, 594 



— Pliocene strata of, 199 

 early geologists of, 30, 50 



Ivory, vast stores of, in Siberia, 185 



TAMES, Sir Henry, on Dead Sea level, 112 



J block of tin dredged up in 



Falmouth Harbour, 541 

 Jamieson, Mr., on glacier-lake theory, 379 

 Java, valley of poison in, 589 

 — volcanos in, 589 



Jones, Sir W., on Menu's institutes, 7 

 Jorullo, eruption of, 584 

 Jukes, Mr., on volcanic islands near Java, 589 



Jutland, inroads of sea in, 556 



I^AMTSCHATKA, volcanos in, 588 

 ^ Kaschnitz, Herr Von, on destruction of 



earth-pillars by rain, 339 

 Kaswini, on oscillations of land and sea, 29 

 Kaup, Dr., on gibbon, or long-armed ape, 200 



Kaye, C. J., cited, 213 



Keill on "Whiston and Burnet, 49 



Kent, inroads of sea on coast of, 522 



Keyserling, Count, cited, 251 



King, Rev. S. W., on Eccles Church, 513 



Kirwan, his geological essays, 82 



Koran, cosmogony of the, 28 



Kurile Isles, active volcanos in, 588 



LABRADOR, rocks drifted by ice on, 384 

 Lagrange on limits of excentricity of 

 earth's orbit, 269 



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Lake, dammed up by a glacier, 376 



— deltas, 417, 421 



Lakes formed in Louisiana, 454 

 Lamarck, his theory of progression, 147 

 Land, effect of, in distributing heat, 276 



— effect of, in warming the atmosphere, 



237, 241 



— height of, compared to depth of sea, 265 



— map showing antipodal, 258 



— now abnormal at the poles, 247 



— proportion of, to sea in tropics, 247 



— position of, which would favour warm 

 climate, 248 



— rise of. in Sweden, 121, 133 



— rise and depression of, 24 



— and sea, a normal state of, considered, 262 



— and sea, present unequal distribution of, 

 257 



Landslip in Dorsetshire, 536 

 Landslips on the Amazons, 469 



— floods caused by, 350 



Laplace, on no contraction of globe, 304 

 Lariviere, M., on ice- transported blocks, 364 

 Lassaigne, his analysis of Nile mud, 433 

 Lauder, Sir T. D., on Moray floods, 349 

 Lavas of Somma, slope of, 632, 638, 640 

 Lava-streams of Somma, 638 

 Lazzoro Moro. See Moro. 

 Leaves, fossil, of Casa dell' Acqua Somma, 



634 

 Lehman, treatise of 1756, 59 

 Leibnitz on origin of primitive masses, 40 

 Leidy on reptiles of the Chalk, 214 

 Lena, fossil bones on banks of, 181, 183 

 Leonardo da Vinci on fossil shells, 31 

 Leslie, Sir J., on heat received by poles and 



equator, 284 

 Leslie, Sir J., on temperature of hottest 



month in London, 294 

 Level of Dead Sea and Caspian, 112 

 Le vomer's computation of excentricity of 



earth's orbit, 270 

 Light, influence of, on plants, 226 

 Lincolnshire, waste of coast, 511 

 Lindley, Dr., on fossil plants of Melville 



Island, 225 

 Lippi on Herculaneum and Pompeii, 643, 



646 

 Lisbon, earthquakes at, 596 

 Lister on fossil shells, 40 

 Loess of Mississippi Valley, 463 



the Nile, 433 



London, Artesian well near, 389 

 Longmynds system of, Post-Silurian, 129 

 Louisiana, formation of lakes in, 454 

 Lowestoff Ness, Suffolk, how formed, 51S, 



519 

 Lubbock, Sir J., on deposition of Nile mud, 



437 

 term Neolithic, 176 



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