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INDEX. 



Laminated or upper secondary formation, appa- 

 rent geological position of, with respect to the 

 English series, 297. 



general shape of the 



hills belonging to the formation, 298. - 



..^ probable manner in 



which the hills have been formed, 299. 



Land gaining on the sea, notices of, inCutch, 305. 



Langley, coal section at, 478. 



field pits, section of, 481. 



La Petite Riviere, account of change of level 

 near, 97. 



Laterite, remarks on the relative age of the, and 

 trap of India, 573. 



Lavenham, section of well at, 375. 



Leamington, section near, 343. 



Lecka Hill, in Cutch, notice of, 316. 



Leraus, elevation of the island of, by an earth- 

 quake, Nov. 1837, 605. 



Lias, account of, in the north-east of Antrim, 77. 



in Worcestershire, 260. 



. the Squaloraia found in, 83. 



subdivisions of, on the Yorkshire coast, 237. 



distribution of 



fossils in, 215, 223. 

 Lidbrook Valley, Forest of Dean, contortions in 



the coal measures of, 201. 

 Lighthouse, woodcut of the cliff between Hoierup 



and the, 248. 

 Lightmoor wimsey pit, section of, 475. 

 Lignite, notice of, between the Jumna and the 



Ganges, 270. 

 Lilleshall fault, description of, 457. 

 section of the carboniferous series at, 



427. 

 Limerick, height of the limestone plain of, 6. 



notice of rolled debris in, 67. 



Limestone, description of, forming the Mingin 



islands, 92. 

 on the south coast of 



the St. Lawrence, 102. 

 ofthe Bermudas, containsrecent shells, 



preserving their colour, knee buckles, Sec. 



113. 



Limestone of South Devon, characters of, 654. 

 — . upper beds generally 



occur in great unconnected masses, 651. 

 separated by organic remains from 



the mountain limestone, 652. 

 . interpolated between two great groups 



of slate rock, 652. 



— — transition, description of, in the south 



of Ireland, 7, 9, 16. 



— . list of fossils in, 21. 



remarks on the effects of heat on per- 

 fectly dry, 560. 



fault, Coalbrook Dale, description of. 



oolitic bed of, in the millstone grit 



ofthe Forest of Dean, 203. 



pit, Lincoln Hill, section of, 480. 



Lindley, Prof., observations by, on the fossil 



plants of the new red sandstone at Hadley, 340. 

 remarks by, respecting the culm- 

 plants of Devonshire, 681. 

 the fossil 



plants from Sloly, 683, 

 Linnel Braes, notice of fossil wood from, 209. 

 Linton, remarks on the neighbourhood of, 640, 644. 

 Lippe Buckeberg, description of a piece of wood 



partially petrified from a Roman aqueduct, in 



the principality of, 207. 



— further notice of, 213. 



Little Wenlock, section of coal pit, 477. 

 Lizard, notice ofthe rocks near the, 667. 

 Lodge pit, Madeley, sections of coal shafts, 477. 

 Lodgewood, north of Donnington, coal-pit section, 



479. 

 Lonar lake, account ofthe, 562. 



— • analysis of the waters, 563. 



description of the sesquicarbonate of 



soda obtained from, 562. 

 London clay, observations on a well dug in, on 



the south side of Hampstead Heath, 131. 



list of fossils found in the well, 134. 



■ description ofthe new 



species, 136. 

 • vegetable remains 



found in, similar to those at Sheppey and High- 

 gate, 131. 



notice of, near Harwich, 259. 



in Sufliblk, 361. 



