CONTENTS. 



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I. Disclosure of the Subject 13 



II. The Ordeal by Water 18 



III. The Ordeal by Fire 28 



IV. The Solar System in a Blaze 36 



V. The Reign of Fire 49 



VI. Old Ocean commences Work 56 



VII. A Ray of Life 65 



VIII. The Front of the Procession of Life 73 



IX. Discovery of the Programme 94 



X. The Garden of Stone Lilies 105 



XL The Fairy Sailor and his Cousins 110 



XII. Onward through the Ages 122 



XIII. An Underground Excursion 139 



XIV. The Scenery of the Coal Period 149 



XV. The Scouts of the Reptile Horde 164 



XVI. The Reign of Reptiles 173 



XVII. The Geography of the Empire of Reptiles 195 



XVIII. The Reign of Mammals 199 



XIX. The Reign of Ice 213 



XX. Labors of the Ice-born Torrents, and the Ocean 



Burial 222 



XXL Resurrection of the Continent 229 



XXII. Former Higher Level of the Great Lakes 241 



XXIII. Vitality of Buried Vegetable Germs 249 



XXIV. Prairies and their Treelessness 264 



XXV. Something about Oil 272 



XXVI. Something about Rock-salt and Gypsum 294 



XXVII. Method in the Growth of Continents 307 



XXVIII. Method in the History of Life 311 



XXIX. World-thoughts 323 



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