LIST OF THE ENGRAVINGS. 



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No. of Fig. ^ Page 



272. Edible Air-borne Lichen — Lecanora esculenta, ..... 5.55 



27.3. First Granite Beds and First Upheavals, 574 



274. Impression of a Gigantic Club-moss of the Coal Period, . . . 580 



275. Imaginary View of a Forest of the Coal Period, .... 5S1 



276. Archegosaurus, the First Antediluvian Reptile — Archegosauriis Decheni, 583 



277. Iraagioary View of a Landscape of the Secondary Epoch, witli Ptero- 



dactyls. Lias Period, ......... 587 



278. Labyriuthodon Restored, ......... 589 



279. Skeleton and Head of the Common Ichthyosaurus, .... 591 



280. Meriau's Opossum — Didelphis dorsigera, ...... 594 



281. Fossil Shells of the Secondary Period, 595 



282. Imaginary View of a Landscape of the Tertiary Period, with group.s 



of Palajotheria and Anoplotheria, 597 



283. Great Palajotherium — Palceotherium magnmn, 600 



284. Common Anoplotherium — Anoplotherium commune, .... 601 



285. Fossil Shells of the Tertiary Epoch, 603 



286. Fossil Libellula of the Secondary Epoch, 619 



287. Impressions of Rain -drops and Animals' Footsteps on Antediluvian 



Rocks, 620 



288. View in the Himalayas. The Kaurisankar, or Mount Everest, the 



highest Mountain on the Globe, ....... 627 



289. Modern Upheaval — Jorullo in Mexico, 630 



290. View in Tierra del Fuego. Conical Peaks of Admiralty Strait, . 631 



291. Cascade in the Gorges of Mount Taurus. Valley of Erosion, . , 635 



292. Spectres of the Brocken in the Harz, 639 



293. A Hell Valley in the Mountains of Spain (Alpujarras), . . . 643 

 293 (*'»i- Plateau of the Dance of Witches in the Harz, . . . .643 



294. Circus of Gavarnie in the Pyrenees, ....... 646 



295. Goenong Api, Banda Islands, in the Moluccas, 649 



296. Summit and Crater of Orizaba, ........ 651 



297. View of the Interior of the Crater of Popocatepetl, .... 653 



298. The Crater of Etna, 656 



299. Ruins at Torre del Greco, Bay of Naples, 657 



300. Pimelodes of the Cyclops — Pimelodus Cyclopum, .... 660 



301. The Great Geyser, Iceland, 664 



302. Entrance to Fingal's Cave, StafJa, ....... 665 



303. Basaltic Cliffs and Giant's Causeway, Staffa, 665 



3ti4. A Bay in Spitzbergen, 669 



305. Mount Erebus, Antarctic Regions, 671 



306. Glaciers in the Bay of the Magdalen, Spitzbergen, .... 673 



307. A Chain of Icebergs in the Polar Regions, ..... 677 



308. Young Esquimaux, 680 



309. Kennely Channel, 681 



310. Morton Planting the American Flag on the Shores of the Polar Se.a, 683 



311. Proteus of the Subterranean Rivers of Carniola, .... 686 



312. C^yprinodons r^f the Mammoth Cave, ....... 688 



313. The Styx, a Subterranean River in the Mammoth Cave, . . . 689 



314. Dead Sea in the Mammoth Cave, ....... 692 



315. Travellers attacked by Vampires, 699 



316. The American Vampire — Vampirus spectrum, ..... 700 



317. The Desert — A Caravan Assailed by the Khamsin, .... 703 



318. The Mirage in the Desert, 706 



319. Island of Phila;', or the Sacred Island, Nubia, 700 



