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Rivers, colour of, caused by sediment, 309 



— floods in Scotland, 349 



— sinuosities of, 346 



— velocity of two united, 348 

 Roches moutonnees, 375 



near earth- pillars in the Ritten, 310 



Rocks, action of frost on, 367, 385 



older, why most solid and disturbed, 119 



—overturned by lightning and waves, 504 



— transportation of, by glaciers, 374 



— difference of texture in older and newer, 



140 

 Romney Marsh, gained from sea, 528 

 Ross, Captain Sir J., on floating icebergs, 382 

 high antarctic land, a source of 



cold, 242 

 grounded icebergs in Baffin's 



Bay, 245 



thickness of antarctic ice, 287 



erratic blocks in Victoria Land, 



2S7 

 Rotation of the earth, currents caused by, 500 



Runn of Kutch, salt deposit in, 228 

 Rutimeyer on monkey in Middle Eocene, 164 

 Habkeren blocks, 210 



ST. CASSIAN beds, marine fauna of, 221 

 St. Helena, tides at, 494 

 St. Lawrence River, view of rocks drifted by 



ice in the, 364 

 St. Michael's Mount, three views of, 540 



unchanged during many centuries, 539 



Sabine, General, on marine currents, 497 



Artesian well, 390 



casks carried by currents, 499 



solar magnetic period, 303 



Salt-springs, 410 

 Samothracian deluge, 593 

 Sand-bars on coast of Adriatic, 424 



Sand-dunes, 516 



Sandwich Islands, volcanos of, 590 



San Filippo, baths of, 402 



San Vignone, travertin formed by springs of, 



401 

 Saunders, Mr., on distribution of land and 



sea, 257—262 

 Saussure, de, on Lake of Geneva, 418 



Alps and Jura, 67 



Scacchi, Professor A., on formation of Monte 



Nuovo, 613 



cited, 615, 628 



Scandinavia, average rise of land in, 137 



Scheuchzer on fossil fish, 50 



Scilla on Calabrian fossils, 37 



Scoresby on influence of Gulf-stream in 



Spitzbergen, 245 

 Scotland, action of the sea on coast of, 508 

 — river-floods in, 349 

 Scoriae, ropy, of Vesuvius, 625 

 Scrope, Mr., on basalts of Vesuvius, 633 



■ Vesuvian eruption, 621 



formation of voJcanic cones, 629 



drawing of Ischia by, 601 



Scrope, Mr., cited, 605 



Scudder, Mr., on Devonian insects. 157 



Sea, its influences on climate, 248 



— action of, on the British coast, 502 



— apparent change of level caused by rise of 



land, 24 



— depth of, compared to height of land, 265 



— extent of open, at north pole, 285 



— encroachments of, on coasts, 502—517, 



548, 552, 556, 559 



— beaches, progressive movement of, 531 

 whether caused by attraction of ice- 

 cap, 290 



Sedgwick, Professor, on Devonian strata, 320 



Sediment of the Mississippi, 458 



— rate of subsidence of some kinds of, 573 



— area over which it may be transported by 



currents, 574 



— laws governing deposition of, 573 



— brought down by Ganges, 481 

 Sedimentary deposition, causes which occa- 

 sion a shifting of the areas of, 307 



uniformity of change in, 307 



Sequence of formations explained, 324 



Seven Sleepers, legend of, 97 



Severn, tides in estuary of, 494 



Shakspeare's Cliff, waste of, 526 



Sharpe, Mr. S., on deposition of Nile mud, 



436 

 Shells of Carboniferous period, 228 

 the drift as proofs of climate, 192 



— marine, in New Orleans Artesian well, 459 



— supposed fossil, of Somma, 637 



— upraised, of the Baltic, 314 



— fossil, of delta of the Amazons, 467 

 importance of, 312 



— number of recent, in different tertiary 



periods, 312 ! 



Sheppey, Isle of, waste of coasts in, 522 

 Shetland Isles, action of the sea on, 502 



rock masses drifted by sea in, 503 



effects of lightning on rocks in, 503 



Shingle beaches, 531—534 



Shoals and valleys in German Ocean, 56S 



Siberia, map of, 182 



— rhinoceros entire in frozen soil of, 183 



— lowland of, 181 



— extension of lowland of, 188 

 Siberian mammoths, 182—191 

 Sicily, earthquakes in, 594 



— recent testacea in limestone of, 313 

 Sidell, Colonel, on muddumps of Mississippi, 



451, 452 

 Silex deposited by springs, 403 



Siliceous springs of Azores, 408 



Silting up of estuaries, 557 



Silurian Period, climate of, 231 



Silver Pits, excavation of, 569 



Simeto, River, excavation of lava by, 357 



Siwalik Hills, fossils of the, 201 



Sleswick, waste of coast in, 557 



Smith, William, his tabular view of British 



strata, 84 

 Smyrna, volcanic country round, 592 



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