IND EX. 
337 
DSP 
Depths at Mauritius, the Bed 
Sea, and in the Maldiva 
archipelago, 113 
at which other corals and 
corallines can live, 116 
Dhalac group, 261 
Diego Garcia, slow growth of 
reefs, 92 
Dimensions of the larger groups 
of atolls, 123 
Discovery shoal, 245 
Disseverment of the Maldiva 
atolls, and theory of, 50, 
143 
Distribution of coral-reefs, 80 
Dolomitisation of coral, 18, [330] 
Domingo, St., 273 
Dory Port, recently elevated, 179 
Dory Port, 231 
Duchassaing on rapid growth of 
corals, 107 
Duff’s islands, 221 
Durour, 225 
Eap, 227 
Earthquakes, 
at Keeling atoll, 25 
in groups of atolls, 131 
in Navigator archipelago, 178 
East Indian archipelago recently 
elevated, 179 
Easter, 200 
Echequier, 225 
Ehrenberg, 
on the banks of the Bed 
Sea, 78, 260 
on depth at which corals 
live in the Bed Sea, 113 
on corals preferring the surf, 
85 
on the antiquity of certain 
corals, 96 
Eimeo, 201 
Elevated Beef of Mauritius, 71 
of Bodriguez, [307] 
of Cuba, [308] 
Elevations, recent, 
proofs of, 175, [291] , [314] 
immense areas of, 190 
FEI 
Elivi, 227 
Elizabeth island, 98 
recently elevated, 176, 186 
Elizabeth island, 200 
Ellice group, 216 
Encircled islands, 
their height, 62 
their geological composition, 
62, 68 
Eoua, description of, 177 
Eoua, 213 
Erupted matter, probably not 
associated with thick 
masses of coral rock, 
155-157 
Fais recently elevated, 179, 191 
Fais, 227 
Fanning, 209 
Farallon de Medinilla, 229 
Farsan Group, 262 
Fataka, 220 
Fidji archipelago, 214, [310] 
Fish, 
feeding on corals, 20 
killed in Keeling lagoon by 
heavy rain, 27 
Fissures across coral islands 
132, 262 
FitzBoy, Capt., 
on a submerged shed at 
Keeling atoll, 25 
on an inundation in the Low 
archipelago, 130 
Flint, 206 
Flores, 236, 259 
Florida, 270, 275, [287] 
Folger, 230 
Formosa, 243 
Forster, theory of coral forma- 
tions, 127 
Frederic reef, 222 
Freewill, 231 
Friendly group recently elevated, 
177, 186 
Friendly archipelago, 212 
Fringing-reefs 
absent where coast preci- 
pitous, 69 
