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INDEX, 
VOL 
Volcanoes, 
authorities for their position 
on the map, 160 
their presence determined 
by the movements in pro- 
gress, 189 
absent or extinct in the areas 
of subsidence, 186 
Waigiou, 231 
Wallis island, 214 
Washington, 209 
Wells' reef, 222 
Wellstead, Lieut., account of a 
ship coated with corals, 
106 
West Indies, 
banks of sediment, fringed 
by reefs, 78 
recently elevated, 183 
West Indies, 266 
Wharton, Capt., on Masamarhu 
island, [329] 
ZON 
Whitsunday island, 
view of, 2 
changes in its state, 130 
Williams, Rev. J., 
on traditions of the natives 
regarding coral-islands, 
129 
on antiquity of certain corals, 
96 
Wolchonsky, 200 
Wostock, 206 
Xulla islands, 232 
York island, 208 
Yucutan, coast of, 272 
Zones of different kinds of corals, 
outside the same reefs, 
74, 90, 100 
