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CHAPTER XII. 
Carboniferous Eocks. 
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Great Primeval Flora the Source of the Old Coal Deposits. — General View of 
these Deposits and their Organic Remains in the British Isles . . . 286 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Permian Rocks. 
Changes of the former Surface. — Origin of the term ' Permian ' as applied to tht, 
highest Group of Palseozoic Deposits. — The Permian Rocks of Russia, Ger- 
many, and Britain. — The Organic Remains of the Group . . . . 308 
CHAPTER XIY. 
General View op the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous Rocks of 
Scandinavia and Russia . . . 345 
CHAPTER XV. 
Primeval Succession in Germany. 
General Sketch of the Character of the Older Rocks extending westwards from 
Turkey-in-Europe into the Carpathians and Alps. — Devonian and Carbo- 
niferous Rocks of Poland, Silesia, and Mora via. — Laurentian, Cambrian, and 
Silurian Rocks of Bohemia and Bavaria. — Silurian, Devonian, and Carboni- 
ferous Rocks of Saxony, the Thiiringerwald, &c 369 
CHAPTER XVI. 
Paleozoic Rocks of the Harz, the Rhenish Provinces of Prussia, and Belgium. 
Upper Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous Rocks of the Harz. — Devonian and 
Carboniferous Rocks of the Rhine and its Affluents. — Devonian and Carboni- 
ferous Deposits of Westphalia and Belgium 390 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Silurian and Overlying Paleozoic Rocks of France, Spain, Portugal, and 
Sardinia 406 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
Succession of Primeval Rocks in America. 
Order of the Palasozoic Rocks in South America (the Andes), the United States, 
and British North America . . . . . . . . 424 
