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INDEX. 
Spa, caves and fissures, near Spa, contain dilu¬ 
vium, 111. 
Spain, bones in a cave in Arragon, 160. 
Sparman, his account of hysenas at the Cape, 23. 
Species, identity of, in caves and gravel, 145. 
Spencer, Earl, gravel in his Park at Althorp, 197. 
Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, the nearest red chalk to 
Shipston, 250. 
Splinters of bone in Kirkdale cave, 16. 
--stamped by pebbles at Bauman’s 
Hohle, 119. 
Springs of Cherwell and Evenlode, without the 
escarpment of the oolite, 254. 
Squirrel, bones of, in cave at Kostritz, 167. 
St. Asaph, section of shaft in gravel near, 179. 
Stafford, granite blocks on the west of it, 199. 
Staffordshire, granite blocks on its plains, ibid. 
Stainmoor, blocks of Shap granite there, 194. 
Stalactite, definition of, 9. 
-- on roof and sides of cave at Kirkdale, 
10 . 
- tube found in horizontal position at 
Kirkdale, 44. 
-invests bones in German caves, 102. 
-- beautiful in Biel’s Hohle, 122. 
Stalagmite in Forster’s Hohle, 127. 
-upper crust of it above the mud, in 
cave at Kirkdale, 11. 
-does not alternate with beds of mud, 
ibid. 
• -under crust of it below the mud, ibid. 
-of different periods, at Kirkdale, 48, 49. 
-upper crust of, at Kirkdale, 51. 
-single crust in all the caves of Germany, 
108. 
-crust much broken on the floor at 
Scharzfeld, 114. 
■-crust still perfect in Bauman’sHohle, 120. 
• -—— single crust in Biel’s Hohle, 123. 
-crust and pillar at Gailenreuth, 134. 
-does not alternate with mud or peb¬ 
bles, 144. 
Stirlingshire, proofs of diluvial action in, 201. 
Stokes, C. Esq. his communication on Halkin 
mines, 174. 
Strabo, mentions importation of ivory ornaments 
to Britain, 91. 
Strangways, Hon. William, his account of mud 
veins near Petersburg, 112. 
-, his distinction of allu¬ 
vium and diluvium, near Petersburg, 187. 
Stream works, for procuring metals from diluvial 
gravel, 118. 
-containing pebbles of lead, 177. 
-affordproofs of diluvial action, 218. 
Stockton on Tees, diluvium near it, 192. 
Stonehenge, made of grey wethers, 248. 
Stonehouse, caves in quarry near marine barracks 
at, 68, 69. 
Stow in the Wold, ridge affecting locally the 
course of the diluvial waters, 251. 
-- 1 ■ ■ valleys of denudation near, 
257. 
Stutgard, remains in the Royal Cabinet, 180. 
Suffolk, elephants on the coast, 173. 
-- character of diluvium, 193. 
Sumatra, diluvial tin in islands near it, 220. 
Summary of facts proving an universal deluge, 
226. 
Sumner, Rev. I. B. his opinion of the force of 
water, 237. 
Sundwick, bones found there, 25. 
—-caves, with bones, 112. 
Superga Mountain, near Turin, boulders on it, 
211 . 
Surface, affords noindication of cavities below, 70. 
-fissures and caves at Gibraltar, communi¬ 
cate with, 154. 
Swallow holes, extent of them in England, 6. 
-—- ; n Derbyshire, ibid. 
- -- or fissures, modern cattle lost in 
them, 79. 
Sywcll, near Northampton, pebbles of chalk there, 
197. 
