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INDEX. 



ATO 



Atolls, 



their lowness, 120 

 lagoons, 35 

 general range, 165 

 with part of their reef sub- 

 merged, and theory of, 37, 

 144 

 whole reef submerged and 

 theory of, 38, 144 

 Augustin, St., 213 

 Aurora island, an upraised atoll, 121 

 Aurora, 199 

 Austral islands, recently elevated, 



174, 183 

 Austral islands, 202 

 Australia, JSf.W. coast, 229 

 Australian barrier-reef, 63, 163 

 Australian barrier, 217 



Babuyan group, 237 

 Bahama banks, 258, 259 

 Balabac, 234 

 Bally, 230 

 Baring, 214 

 Barrier-reef 



of Australia, 63, 163 



of New Caledonia, 67 

 Barrier-reefs, 



breaches through, 133 



not based on worn-down margin 

 of rock, 66 



on banks of sediment, 67 

 on submarine craters, 68 



steepness of their flanks, 58, 

 162, 233 



their probable vertical thick- 

 ness, 64, 132 



theory of their formation, 131, 

 135 

 Bampton shoal, 217 

 Banks' islands. 216 

 Banks ioi the West Indies, 255 

 Bashee islands, 237 

 Bass island, 203 

 Batoa, 211 

 Beaupre reef, 217 

 Beechey, Capt., 



obligations of the author to, 30 



on submerged reefs, 37 



account of Matilda island, 100 



CET 



Belcher, Sir E. 



on boring through coral-reefs, 

 98 



on changes in Bow atoll, 170 



on Clipperton rock, 198 

 Bellinghausen, 198 

 Bengal, gulf of, elevation of eastern 



shores of, 179 

 Bermuda islands, 264 

 Beveridqe reef, 209 

 Bligh, 216 

 Bolabola, view of, 3 

 Bombay shoal, 239 

 Bonin bay, 232 

 Bonin group, 225 

 Borings through coral reefs, 98 

 Borneo, W. coast, recently elevated, 



178 

 Borneo, 



E. coast, 231 



8. W. and W. coast, 234 



K coast, 234 



western bank, 239 

 Boscawen, 211 

 Boston, 214 

 Bouka, 218 

 Bourbon, 242 

 Bourou, 227 

 Bouton, 232 



Brazil, fringing-reefs on coast of, 77 

 Breaches through barrier-reefs, 133 

 Brook, 204 

 Bunker, 204 

 Bunoa, 234 

 Byron, 213 



Cagayanes, 235 



Candelaria, 219 



Car g ados Carajos, 241 



Caroline island, 204 



Caroline archipelago, 220 



Carteret shoal, 226 



Caryophyllia, depths at which it 



lives, 116 

 Cavilli, 235 

 Cayman island, 262 

 Celebes, 228 

 Ceram, 226 

 Ceylon, recently elevated, 179 



