CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. 
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Rhine. — Former course of the Rhone.— The Danube. 
- — Age of the Swiss rivers 212 
CHAPTER IX. 
LAKES. 
Height and depth of Swiss lakes. — Classes of lakes. — 
Lakes of embankment, of excavation, and of sub- 
sidence. — Crater lakes. — Corrie lakes. — Lakes due to 
rockfalls. — The great lakes.— Theories of Ramsay, 
Tyndall, and Gastaldi. — Lakes in synclinal vallej's. — 
Lakes due to moraines. — Lakes due to changes of 
level of the land. - The Italian lakes. — Colour of the 
Swiss lakes. — The Beine or Blancford 234 
CHAPTER X. 
THE INFLUENCE OF THE STRATA UPON SCENERY. 
Character of scenery dependent on weathering, the climate, 
the character and inclination of the rocks. — Siliceous 
rocks. — Calcareous rocks. — Argillaceous rocks. — 
Gneiss.— Granite. — Crystalline Schists. — Porphyry. — 
Dolomite. — Karrenfelder. — Glaciated scenery. — Mo- 
raine scenery. — Rockfalls. — Earth pyramids . . . 258 
TABLE OF LINEAR MEASURE. 
I inch = 25.40 millim. 
1 foot = 0.305 metre. 
I yard = 0.914 metre. 
I mile = 1.609 kilom. 
