INDEX. 



753 



Versclioyle, Archdeacon, notices on the geology 

 of the north coast of Mayo and Sligo, 149. 



Vertebra, Mr. Owen on the composition of a, 5 1 8. 



Vertebral column, exposition of the general cha- 

 racters of the, in Ple.siosauri, 521. 



Veryan Bay and Looe, Killas thrown into a trough 

 between, 666. 



Villarica, volcano of, not affected during the out- 

 bursts in the Cordilleras and the earthquake, 

 1835, 605, 631. 



• action of, during the earthquake, 1 822, 



605, 631. 



Volcanic eruptions, proofs of distinct periods of, 

 in Cutch, 312. 



recent outbursts of, in Cutch, 316. 



have occurred at all epochs in 



the earth's history, 624'. 



outbursts, considered to be effects of 



the same force as that which elevates conti- 

 nents, 606. 

 phenomena, tables of, by A. de Hum- 

 boldt and Mr. Darwin, 610. 



rocks, structure of, in part of Asia 



Minor, 584, 591, 592, 594, 595. 



and trappean rocks, account of, in 



Cutch, 306. 

 Volcanos, on the formation of, as one of the 



effects of the same power by which continents 



are elevated, 601. 



in South America, contemporaneous 



outbursts of, 604. 



Osorno, Minchinmadom, Cor- 



covado, Yantales, &c. Feb. 1835, 604, 607. 

 Osorno and Corcovado, Nov. 



1835, 604. 



Osorno, Aconcagua and Cose- 



guina, January 18.^5, 611, 612. 

 not equally affected 



during periods of renewed energy, though 



situated on the same chain, 605. 

 of the Cordillera may be grouped into 



systems, 614. 

 the vents of each system probably 



united, but no proofs that the systems are, 614. 



and earthquakes, apparent connexion 



of, in South America, 602, 611. 



Volcanos and earthquakes, apparent connexion of, 

 in South America ; eruptions of Osorno, Cor- 

 covado, &c. and the earthquakes of Feb. and 

 Nov. 1835, 604, 606. 



near Valdivia, and 



the destruction of Valparaiso, 1822, 606 note. 



■ : of Patas and Lucanas, 



and the overthrow of Lima, 1746, 606no<e, 614. 

 of Pasto and the de- 



struction of Riobamba, 606. 

 proofs of connexion not 



always decisive, 611, 612. 

 observation of Ulloa re- 



specting the connexion of, 615. 

 Voysey, Dr., notice of his discovery of fossil 



freshwater shells in India, 570. 

 ; by, of the country near the 



Taptee, 571. 



rivers Kistnah and Pennar, 574. 



on the 



W. 



Warwick, remarks on the upper portions of the 

 new red sandstone system near, '^37. 



■ sandstone of, described, 342. 



. ■ occupies the same po- 

 sition as the sandstone of Ombersley and 

 Bromsgrove, 342, 345. 



fossils found in, 343. 



• concluding observations 



respecting, 345. 



Warwickshire, description of the upper forma- 

 tions of the new red sandstone system in, 331. 



Water, account of supplies in the Bermudas, 120. 



Waterford, county, description of the metallife- 

 rous deposits in the transition series of, 24. 



transition 



series in, 12. 



mountains, highest point of, above the 



level of the sea, 6. 



Waters'-meet, notices respecting the strata near, 

 644. 



Wavellite obtained in Devonshire from the lower 

 culm measures, 671. 



. found in coal shales in South Wales, 



671 note. 



