INDEX. 



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MAU 



Mauritius, 



f ringing-reefs of, 69 



depths at which corals there 



live, 109 

 recently elevated, 179 

 Mauritius, 242 

 Maurua, section of, 65 

 Maurua, 200 

 Menchicoff atoll, 28, 143 

 Mendana isles, 201 

 Mendana isles, 210 

 Mendana island, subsidence of, 163, 



201 

 Meiia, 98, 121, 183 

 Mexico, gulf of, 258 

 Millepora complanata at Keeling 



atoll, 9 

 Mindoro, 235 

 Mohilla, 244 

 Molucca islands recently elevated, 



177 

 Mopeha, 201 

 Moresby, Capt., on boring through 



coral-reefs, 99 

 Morty, 227 

 Mosquito coast, 262 

 Mosquillo atoll, 143 

 227 



Namourrek group, 143 



Natunas, 234 



Navigator archipelago, elevation of, 

 176 



Navigator archipelago, 208 



Nederlandisch islands, 212 



Nelson, Lieut., 



on the consolidation of coral- 

 rock, under water, 97 

 theory of coral-formations, 125 

 on the Bermuda islands, 264 



New Britain, 219 



New Caledonia, 



steepness of its reef, 57 

 barrier-reef of, 67, 136, 142, 

 163 



New Caledonia, 217 



New Guinea (E. end), 219 



New Guinea ( W. end), 225 



New Hanover, 219 



PEY 



New Hebrides, recently elevated, 176 



New Hebrides, 214 



New Ireland recently elevated, 177 



New Ireland, 219 



New Nantucket, 205 



Nicobar islands, 233 



Niouha, 210 



Nulliporse, 



at Keeling atoll, 12 



on the reefs of atolls, 33 



on barrier reefs, 57 



their wide distribution and 

 abundance, 116 



Objections to the theory of subsi- 

 dence, 151 

 Oceanislands, 208, 213 

 Ono, 212 

 Onouafu, 211 

 Or muz, 250 

 Oscar group, 212 

 Oscillations of level, 182, 190 

 Oualan or Ualan, 220 

 Ouluthy atoll, 101 

 Outong Java, 219 



Palawan, 



S.W. coast, 234 



N. W. coast, 235 



western bank, 239 

 Palmerston, 202 

 Palmyra, 206 

 Paracells, 238 

 Par aquas, 239 

 Patchow, 237 



Paumotu archipelago, 168, 198 

 Pelew islands, 222 

 Pemba island, singular form of, 180 

 Pemba, 248 

 Penrhyn, 204 

 Peregrino, 204 

 Pernambuco, bar of sandstone at, 



73,265 

 Persian gulf, recently elevated, 181 

 Persian gulf, 249 

 Pescado, 204 

 Pescadores, 238 

 Peyster group, 212 



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