CONTENTS 
OF VOLUME 1. 
CHAPTER 1. 
THE GEOLOGY OF SWITZERLAND. Page 
The influence of geology on scenery. — Difficulty of sub- 
ject. — Geological history of Switzerland. — Igneous 
rocks. — Gneiss. — Origin of Gneiss.— Granite. — Por- 
phyry. — Protogine. — Serpentine. — Crystalline Schists. 
— Carboniferous period. — Ancient mountain chain. — 
Permian period. — Triassic. — Jurassic; Lias, Dogger, 
Malm. — Cretaceous. — Tertiary; Eocene, Flysch, Num- 
mulitic beds; Miocene. — Summary 25 
CHAPTER II. 
THE ORIGIN OF MOUNTAINS. 
Continents the true mountain ranges. — Two classes of 
mountain ranges : table mountains and folded moun- 
tains. — Peaks, two classes of: volcanoes, mountains 
of denudation. — Origin of mountain ranges, cooling 
and consequent contraction of the earth. — Crust con- 
sequently either broken up or folded. — Hence table 
mountains and folded mountains. — Table mountains. 
