INDEX, 
oil 
NEW 
New Caledonia, 
steepness of its reef, 57 
bamer-reef of, 63, 67, 139, 
145, 166 
New Caledonia, 221 
New Guinea (E. end), 224 
New Guinea ( W . end), 231 
New Hanover, 224 
New Hebrides recently elevated, 
178 
New Hebrides, 218 
New Ireland recently elevated, 
178 
New Ireland, 224 
New Nantucket, 208 
Nicobar Islands, 239 
Niouha, 214 
Nulliporae, 
at Keeling atoll, 18 
on the reefs of atolls, 34 
on barrier reefs, 57 
their wide distribution and 
abundance, 117 
Oahu, borings at, [322] 
Objections to the theory of subsi- 
dence, 153 
Ocean islands, 211, 217 
Ono, 215 
Onouafu, 214 
Ormuz, 260 
Oscar group, 216 
Oscillations of level, 166, 184, 193 
Oualan or TJalan, 225 
Ouluthy atoll, 101 
Outong Java, 224 
Palawan, 
S. W. coast, 240 
N.W. coast, 241 
western bank, 245 
Palmerston, 204 
Palmyra, 209 
Paracells, 245 
Paraquas, 246 
Patchow, 243 
Paumotu archipelago, 170 
Paumotu archipelago, 200 
QUO 
Peel island, 230 
Pelew islands, 227 
Pemba island, singular form of, 
182 
Pemba, 255 
Penrhyn, 206 
Pcregrino, 206 
Pernambuco, bar of sandstone at, 
73, 277 
Persian gulf, recently elevated, 
183 
Persian gulf, 259 
Pescado, 207 
Pescadores, 244 
Peyster group, 216 
Philip, 227 
Philippine archipelago, recently 
elevated, 180 
Philippine archipelago, 241 
Phoenix, 208 
Pierre, St., 250 
Piguiram, 227 
Pitcairn, 201 
Pit island, 217 
Pitt’s bank, 152 
Platte, 250 
Pleasant, 217 
Porites, chief coral on margin of 
Keeling atoll, 9 
Postillions, 237 
Pouynipete, 168 
its probable subsidence, 169 
Pouynipite, 226 
Pratas shoal, 244 
Proby, 214 
Providence, 250 
Puerto Pico, 273 
Pulo Anno, 228 
Pulo Leat, 240 
Pumice floated to coral islands, 
157 
Pylstaart, 212 
Pyrard de Laval, astonishment 
at the atolls in the Indian 
Ocean, 2 
Quoy and Gaimard, 
depths at which corals live, 
114 
