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INDEX. 
Uspensk (Donetz), coal mines worked at, 107, 108. 
, coal district one of the richest m Southern Russia, 118. 
, cretaceous fossils at, 266. 
Ussa river (tributary of the Volga), section of 7 lime- 
stone exhibited at the mouth o t, 8(i. 
Ust-Koiva, on the Tchussovaya, section of contorted carboni- 
ferous rocks near, 120 . 
Devonian and carboniferous rocks seen on the descent 
of the Tchussovaya to, 381 et seq. 
, transverse section of the Ural from this place to Verk- 
hoturie, 389. 
Ust-Kataevsk (Ural), Devonian limestones between Yuryuseusk 
and, 430. 
Ust-Serebriansk, on the Tchussovaya, black dolomite (Devonian) 
near, 385. 
Ust Simsk, near Sterlitamak, probable junction of the inner 
and outer zones of carboniferous limestones at, 130. 
Ust Sisolsk (government of Vologda), identity of its Oxfordian 
beds with those of other distant parts, 230. 
( the neighbourhood of, the limit of the Scandinavian 
blocks, 521. „ . , ... , -a, 
, direction of the Scandinavian drift, to, j it ■ 
Ust-Urt, the isthmus between the Caspian and the Aral Seas, 
shelly limestone of the surface of, 309, 310. 
, supposed by Humboldt to he the termination ot the 
Ural mountains, 811. 
, oceanic deposits in the, 325, 652. 
Ust-Vaga, on the Dwina, sequence of Permian strata near, 1 74. 
, sequence of rocks seen on the road from this place 
to Ustiug, 176. 
, post-pliocene deposits at, 329. 
Ustiug Veliki, on the Permian rocks exposed in ascending the 
Dwina from Archangel to this place, 172. 
> white marls and fossiliferous limestones (Permian) be- 
tween Vitcgra and this place, 175. 
f sequence of rocks seen on the road from tins place to 
Ust-Vaga, 176. 
, lithological character of the rocks around, 177. 
i argillaceous limestones seen in ascending the Suchona 
from this place to Vologda, 177. 
, account of the city of, 177. 
, granitic blocks at, 520. 
blocks of granite and greensand scarce at, 524. 
Usva river (Tchussovaya), coarse conglomerates at the mouth 
of, 127. (See PI.' 11. fig. 5.) 
Utva river (Orenburg), dial k observed at, 
Uvel.sk (east of the South Ural), granite near, 441. 
Uziansk (South Ural), zavod of, 458. 
Vaga, raised sea-bottoms found on the hanks of, 318. 
Vaigatz island, in the Northern Sea, prolongation ot the axis 
of the Ural to, 339. 
f doubtful condition of the rocks in, 411. 
Valdai Hills, the chief watershed of Northern Russia, 20*. 
, chiefly composed of Devonian rocks, 41, 44. 
lower carboniferous limestone surmounting the 
Devonian rocks of, 46, 70. 
t the carboniferous limestone extends from these 
hills as a centre, 77. , , , 
j their effect in arresting the masses of dnit trans- 
ported from the north, 519. ,, . 
^ submerged during the deposit ot the northern 
drift, 524. . , 
Vanuxem, Mr., his account of the geology of part of the state 
of New York, 4*. . .. _ 
Vase of avanturiue presented to Mr. Murchison by the Empe- 
ror of Russia, 434. 
Vashkina (Timan), upper Silurian fossiliferous schists on the, 
413. 
Vassili-Maidan, near the Alatyr, concretions of impure argilla- 
ceous limestone (Jurassic) at, 244. 
Yassilkova, on the Lava between the Volkof and the Siass, 
Ungulites mixed with other Silurian fossils at, 28. 
Vassilivrask, a pass in the Ural, talcose schists near, 360. 
Veduga, near Voroneje, section showing cretaceous series on 
the banks of, 271 . 
Vegetable remains, fossil, their intimate relation with copper 
ore in the Permian series, 154. 
Vegetation, influence of tlie blue clay of St. Petersburg on, 27. 
, its character in soils upon the carboniferous lime- 
stone, 76. 
. , change of, in advancing from Archangel south- 
wards, 176. 
, northern limits of. See Petchora, Map, PL \ I. 
, its superior quality (corn) on the black earth, 5o9. 
Veins of gold ore at Bcrezovsk (Ekaterinburg), 476. 
Velicovo, on the Kliasma, white carboniferous limestone of, 85. 
, ridge extending from Kosrof to this place, 85. 
Verblnya-gora, a spur of carboniferous limestone from the 
Gurmava hills (South Ural), 450. 
Verch Uralsk (east flank of South Ural), granitic rocks east of, 
443. 
, tTact. between this place and Orsk, 414. 
, section from this place to Sterlitamak (see PI. IV.), 
454. 
Verchny Barantchinsk (Ural), zavod of, 381. 
Verchni-Miask, gold workings near Miask so called, 488. 
Verehni-Moulinsk, near Perm, fossil fishes found at, 218. 
Verclnii Ozcrnaia (South Ural), Permian rocks at, 450. 
Verkhoturie, Siberian fortress of the North Ural, see view of, 
395, 653. 
, granite, tertiary grits, &c., 367, 394. 
Verkni Kuudriutcheskaya, near the Donetz, seams of coal at, 
102. 
, emergence of the carboniferous from beneath the cre- 
taceous rocks at, 109. 
Verkni-Podvolodchie, near Perm, ascending section of Permian 
rocks at, 142. 
Verkni-Troitsk, on tlu; Kidash, white marlstones (Permian) be- 
tween this place and Nijni Troitsk, 152. 
Verkni Usloii, on the Volga, gypsum (Permian) found at, 162. 
Verneuil, M. E. de, the origin and progress of his researches in 
Russia (Preface), passim. 
, his memoir on the palaeozoic fossils of the 
Rhenish provinces, 1*. 
, hi s description of the palaeozoic fossils of 
Russia. (See vol. ii.) 
, his observations on the tertiary deposits of 
the Crimsea, 301. 
Viasniki, on the Oka, extent of the red marls, 180. 
, section of variegated marls and sands at, with Cythe- 
rines and mineral milk or fossil leather found near, 182. 
Viatka river, near Perm, grits (Permian), 160. 
Vienilza (Poland), uiiocene deposits near, 294. 
Vim (Timan), gypsum in the upper part of the, 412. 
Vindin-Ostrof, on the Volkof, to near Bor, Devonian fossils of 
this tract, 43. 
Visilki (South Ural), fossiliferous Permian limestone at, 148. 
Visinga (tributary of the Sisola), Jurassic rocks ou the banks 
of, 417. 
Visiugs island (Sweden), the sandstone of, Silurian, 17*. 
Vissimo-Shaitansk, near tlie crest of tlie North Ural, Devonian 
limestone at, 376. 
— , platinum found by Humboldt at, 3J3. 
fistula river, mioccne tertiary shelly sands in the upper \ alley 
of, 283,291. . „ , 
arrangement of blocks in tlie valley of, 
/itchegda river (Timan), upper Silurian schists of, 413. 
fitchcgda and Ukhta, Permian limestones on, 412. 
fitegra, section of Devonian strata near the high road leading 
to.’ 47. 
t extension of the carboniferous limestone to, >3. 
, sequence of rocks at, 74, 75. 
carboniferous fossils found at, 75. 
, white marls and fossiliferous limestones (Permian) be- 
tween Ustiug and, 175. 
