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INDEX. 



Conybeare, Rev. W. D., on the thickness 

 of the London clay, 279 



on the organic remains of the Lon- 

 don clay, 2 SO 



on indentations in the chalk near Ro- 

 chester, 282 

 on the transverse valleys of the North 



and South Downs, 298 

 on the former continuity of the chalk 



of the North and South Downs, 303 

 his objections to the theory of M. E. 



de Beaumont, 343 

 Coomb, view of the ravine called the, near 



Lewes see wood-cut No. 75, 301 

 Coquimbo, parallel roads of, 131 

 Corals standing erect among igneous and 



aqueous formations at Galieri, 73 

 Cornwall, granite veins of see wood-cut 



No. 87, 355, 370 

 argillaceous schist, containing organic 



remains in, 37G 

 Costa de Pujou, structure of the hill of 



see frontispiece, 186 

 Corstorphine hills, parallel grooves on 



their summits, how formed, 147 

 Cotentin, tertiary formation of the, 276 

 Coudes, tertiary red marl and sand-stone of, 



like 'new red sand-stone.' 229 

 Couze, river, lake formed by the filling up 



of its ancient bed by lava, 264 

 Crag of England, organic remains of the ; 19 



its relative age, 171 



number of shells found in the, 171 



its mineral composition, 171 



relative position of the see diag. 



No. 30. 172 



lacustrine deposits resting on the, 1 73 



forms of stratification of the see 



\vuod-cuts 173, 174. 175 



dip of the strata of the, 174, 175 



comparison between the Faluns of 



Touraine and the, 203 

 derangement in the strata of the 



see wood-cuts, 177 

 passage of, into alluvium, 181 



its resemblance to formations now in 



progress, 177, Ib2 



proportion of living species in the fos- 

 sil shells of the see Appendix I., p. 47 



number common to Italy and the, il>. 



47 



. number common to Sicily and the, ib. 

 47 



number common to Italy, Sicily, and 



the,*/,. 47 



geographical distribution of the liv- 



inu species found in the, rl>. 47, 51 



Craters, volcanic, of the Eifel, how formed, 



19G 

 Creta, argillaceous deposit called, 67, 70 



re-tiug on columnar lava in the Isle 



of Cyclops see \vood-cut No. 14, 79 



Crocodile of the Ganges found in both salt 



and fresh water, 330 

 Croizet, M., on extinct quadrupeds of 



Mount Perrier, 213 

 on alluviums of different ages in 



Auvergne, 267 

 Cromer, bent strata of loam in the cliffs 



near see wood-cut No. 37, 178 

 Crowborough hill, height of, 283 

 thickness of strata removed from 



the summit of, 313 

 Cruckshanks, Mr. A., on distinct lines of 



ancient sea-cliffs on the coast of Peru, 



130 



Cuckmere,transverse valley of the, 298,299 

 Curtis, iMr. J., on the fossil insects of Aix, 



in Provence, 277 

 Cussac. bones of extinct quadrupeds in 



alluvium under lava at, 219 

 Cutch, changes caused by the earthquake 



of 1819 in, 104,249, 318 

 Cuvier, M., on the mammiferous remains 



of the Upper Val d'Arno, 221 

 on the tertiary strata of the Paris 



basin, 1G, 247, 243 



on the fossil organic remains of 



the Paris basin, 253 



Cyclops, view of the island of, in the Bay 

 of Trezza see wood-cut No. 14, 79 



its height, &c., 79 



stratified marl resting on columnar 



lava in the see wood -cut No. 14, 79 



Cypris, abundance of the remains of, in 

 the fresh-water strata of Auvergne, 230 



habits of the living species of, 230 



Darent, transverse valley of the, 298, 299 

 Daubeny, Dr., on the Val di Noto lime- 



stonej 66 

 on the volcanic region of Olot, in 



Catalonia, 181 

 on the volcanic district of the Lower 



Rhine and Eifel, 201 

 on the age ot the Auvergne volca- 



no* } 269 

 D'Aubuisson, on the appearance of some 



of the Auvergne lavas, 94 

 Daun, lake-craters of the Eifel seen near, 



195 

 Dax, tertiary formations of, 20, 206 



section of tertiary strata overlying 



the chalk near, see diag. No. 51,207 



section of inland cliff near see wood- 

 cut No. 53, 210 



fossil shells of see tables Appendix I. 



De Beaumont, M. E!ie, on the cause of the 

 historical deluge, 143, 272 



his theory of the contemporanous 



origin of parallel mountain chains con- 

 sidered, 337 



his proofs that different chains were 



raised at dili'erent epochs, 340 



