INDEX 
A. 
Abingdon, pebbles of porphyry in gravel, 198. 
- bones of elephants and other animals 
in gravel at, 175. 
- quartzose pebbles in the valley of, and 
on the hills adjacent, 252. 
Abbotsbury, rolled tooth of elephant in Chesil 
Bank, at 247. 
Abscess, marks of, discovered on antediluvian 
wolf s bone by Mr. Clift, 74. 
Abury, Druidical temple built of grey wethers, 
248. 
Accidents, many joust concur to the discovery of 
bones in caverns, 97- 
Actual causes, their effects on lake Huron, 216. 
- began at the period usually as¬ 
signed, 228. 
-cannot have produced diluvial phe¬ 
nomena, 227. 
Adelsberg, cave in Carniola, containing bears’ 
bones, 161. 
Adipocere, in human foot at Paviland, 88. 
rElian mentions hyaenas’ enmity to dogs, 23. 
Africa, proofs of diluvial action in, 220. 
Agates, obtained from diluvium, in Hindoostan, 
ibid. 
Aikin, Mr. his acconnt of gravel at Litchfield, 
195. 
Album graecum, calcareous excrement of hyaenas 
in cave at Kirkdale, 20. 
-- shows hyaenas to have eaten 
Allan, Mr. his account of osseous breccia at Nice, 
151, 152. 
Alluvium of two distinct eras, 185. 
- term applied too vaguely, 190. 
- recent, Mr. Bald’s description of it, 
186. 
-ancient, Mr. Bald’s description of it, 
ibid. 
Alps have been under water, 221. 
-effects of diluvial action in them enormous, 
212 . 
Alpine limestone in Franconia, 124. 
Alternation, none of stalagmite with beds of loam 
and pebbles in the caves, 110. 
-none of mud and stalagmite at Biels’ 
Hohle, in the Hartz, 123. 
Althorp, chalk flints in gravel near, 197. 
America, proofs of diluvial action in, 215. 
- was inundated at the same time with 
Europe and Asia, 218. 
-North, pebbles of lead in stream works, 
177. 
-South, proofs of diluvial action in it, 218. 
Analogy of diluvial phenomena in all countries, 
227. 
Angular fragments, more abundant in fissures 
than in caves, 151. 
-in Mediterranean breccia. 
150. 
in caves, are of two eras. 
143. 
-flints, on summits, in Devon and Dorset, 
bones, 37. 
245. 
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