CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES, 

 ALLUVIAL AND DILUVIAL FORMATIONS. 



Diluvium. — Causes of Diluvial Deposites.— General Deluge.— 

 Existing Causes, — Diluvium of Cape Cod. — Alluvium. — 

 Where Found. — Banks of Rivers. — Seas. — Lakes. — Long Isl- 

 and. — Dunes or Downs. — How Found. — Phenomena of 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 

 FOSSIL GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Definition. — Paleontology. — Buckland's Remarks on the Study 

 of Fossil Geology. — Tournefort's Idea of Fossils. — John 

 Locke's do. Petrifactions. — How produced. — Illustrations. — 

 Organic Remains.— How Coloured.— Fossil Mammalia of the 

 United States. — Big Bone Lick. — Mastodon. — Megatherium, 

 &c. — Period when these Remains were deposited. — Most re- 

 markable Forms of Fossil Organization.— Encrmital or Cri- 

 noideal Limestone .... . . . . 290 



CHAPTER XXVIII 



MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



General Remarks. — Coal. — Rhode Island Coal-fields. — Massa- 

 chusetts Coal-fields. — Mansfield. — Anthracite Coal-fields of 

 Pennsylvania. — Amount Produced and Consumed since the 

 Mines first opened. — Bituminous Coal-fields of Pennsylvania. 

 — Coal-fields of Maryland— Of Virginia— Of Ohio— Kentucky 

 —Tennessee.— Other Coal Measures of the United States 302 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES 



(Continued). 



IRON. 



iron.— Its importance in the Arts.— Iron in Maine— New-Hamp- 

 shire — Salisbury (Conn.)— -State of New-York — Columbia — 

 Dutchess and Orange Counties. — The Stirling Mine.— Iron in 

 Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties. — Iron Ores of New-Jer- 

 sey— Of Pennsylvania and Ohio — Dr. Hildreth's Report 324 



