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Show 90 INDEX. Conybeare, Rev. W. D., on the thickness of the London clay, 279 -- on the organic remaius of the London clay, 280 Crocodile of the Ganges found in both salt and fresh water, 330 -- on indentations in the chalk near Rochester, 282 Croizet, M., on extinct quadrupeds of Mount Perrier, 218 --on alluviums of different ages in Auvergne, 267 -- on the transverse valleys of the North and South Downs, 298 -- on the former continuity of the chalk of the North and South Downs, 303 -- his objection!~ to the theory of M. E. de Beaumont, 348 Coomb, view of the ravine called the, near Lewes-see wood-cut No. 75, 301 Coquimbo, parallel roads of, 131 Corals standing erect among igneous and aqueous formations at Galieri, 73 Cornwall, granite veins of-see wood-cut No. 87, 355, 370 --argillaceous schist, containing organic remains in, 376 Costa de Pujou, structure of the hill ofsee frontispiece, 186 Corstorphine hills, parallel grooves on their summits, how formed, 147 Cotentin, tertiary formation of the, 276 Coudes, tertiary red marl and sand-stone of, like 'new red sand-stone,' 229 Couze, river, lake formed by the filling up of its ancient bed by lava, 264 Crag of England, organic remains of the, 19 --its relative age, 171 --number of shells found in the, 171 --its mineral composition, 171 -- relative position of the-see diag. No. 30, 172 -- lacustrine deposits resting on the, 173 -- forms of stratification of the-see wood-cuts 173, 174, 175 --dip of the strata of the, 174, 175 -- comparison between the Faluns of Touraine and the, 203 -- derangement in the strata of thesee wood-cuts, 177 --passage of, into alluvium, 181 -- its resemblance to formations now in progress, 177, 182 --proportion of living species in the fossil shells of the-see Appendix I., p. 47 -- number common to Italy and the, ib. 47 -- number common to Sicily and the, ib. 47 -- number common to Italy, Sicily, and the, ib. 47 Cromer, lient strata of loam in the cliffs nea1·-see wood-cut No. 37, 178 Crowborough hill, height of, 288 -- thickness of strata removed from the summit of, 313 Cruckshanks, Mr. A., on distinct lines of ancient sea-cliffs on the coast of Pei'U, 130 Cuckmere,transverse valley of the, 298,299 Curtis, Mr. J., on the fosMil insects of Aix, in Provence, 277 Cussac, bones of extinct quadrupeds in alluvium under lava at, 219 Cutch, changes caused by the earthquake of 1819 in, 104,249, 318 Cuvier, M., on the mammiferous remains of the Upper Val d'Amo, 221 ·-- on the tertiary strata of the Paris basin, 16, 247, 243 --- on the fossil organic remaius of the Paris basin, 253 Cyclops, view of the island of, in the Bay of Trezza-see wood-cut No. 14,79 -- its height, &c., 79 -- stratified marl resting on columnar lava in the-see wood-cut No. 14, 79 Cypris, abundance of the remains of, in the fresh-water strata of Auvergne, 230 -- habits of the living species of, 230 , Darent, transverse valley of the, 298, 299 Daubeny, Dr., on the Val di Noto lime-stone, 66 -- on the volcanic region of Olot1 in Catalonia, 184 --on the volcanic district of the Lower Rhine and Eifel, 201 -- on the age of the Auvergne volcanos, 269 D'Aubuisson, on the appearance of some of the Auvergne lavas, 94 Daun, lake-craters of the Eifel seen near, 195 Dax, tertiary formations of, 20, 206 -- section of tertiary strata overlying the chalk near,-see diag. No. 51,207 --section of inland cliff near-see woodcut No. 53, 210 -- geographical distribution of the living species found in the, ib. 47, 51 Craters, volcanic, of the Eifel, how formed, 196 Creta, argillaceous deposit called, 67, 76 -- resting on columnar lava in the Isle 1 of Cyclops-see wood-cut No. 1<1, 79 -- fossil shells of-see tables Appendix I. De Beaumont, M. Elie, on the cause of the historical deluge, 148, 272 -- his theory of the contemporanous origin of parallel mountain chains con. sidered, 337 -- his proofs that different chains were raised at ditferent epochs, 340 INDEX. 91 De Beaumont, M. Elie, objections to the theory of, 341 -- on modern granite of the Alps, 358 De Candolle on the longevity of trees, 99 De Ia Beche, Mr., on M. Elie de Beau-mont's theory, 347 Delta, of the Niger, size of the, 329 -- of the Nile, preyed on by currents, 28 -- of Rhone, in lake of Geneva, 27 De Luc, on the deluge, 271 Deluge, on the changes caused by the, 270 -- M. Elie Beaumont, on the cause of the historical, 148 Denudation, effects of, 30, 32 --of the Valley of the Weald, 285 Deposition, sedimentary, shifting of the areas of, 26 Descartes, 97 Deshayes, M., his comparison of the fossil shells of Touraine, S. E. of France, Piedmont and Vienna, 21 -- his tables of fossil shells, 49-see Appendix I. --on the shells of the Val di Noto, series, 65, 67 -- on shells of the sub-Etnean beds, 79 --on the fossil shells of Ischia, 126 -· on the fossil shells of the Antilles, 133 -- on the fresh-water shells of Colle, 138 --on the fossil shells of the Crag, 171 -- on the limestone of Blaye, 208 -- on the fossil shells of Volhynia and Podolia, 215 -- on the fossil shells of Hungary, 223 -- on the abundance of Cerithia iu the Paris basin, 245 --on the changes which the Cardium porulosum underwent during its existence in the Paris basin, 250 -- on the microscopic shells of the Paris basin, 251 -- on the fossil shells of the Nether. lands, 276 -- on the number of shells common to the Maastricht beds, chalk, and upper g1·een sand, 325 -- on the distinctness of the secondary and tertiary fossil shells, 327 -- on the secondary fossil shells of the Pyrenees, 34~ Desmoulins, M. Ch., on the Eocene tleposits of the environs of Bordeaux, 209 Desnoyers, M., on the organic remains of the Faluns, 205 -- on the tertiary formations of Touraine, 20, 203 -- on the resemblance of the English Crag and the Faluns of the Loire, . 204 Desnoyers, M,, on the fossil organic remains of the Orleanais, 219 -- on the alternation of the plastic clay and calcaire gro~sier in the Paris basin, 244 --on the tertiary formations of the Co· tentin, 276 -- on the marine tertiary strata ncar Rennes, 276 Devil's-dyke, view of the chalk escarpment of the South Downs, taken from the-see wood-cut No. 65, 290 Diagonal stratification of the Crag strata-see wood-cuts, 174, 175 --cause of this arrangement, 176 Dikes, intersecting limestone, 69 -- traversing prperino near Palagonia, -see diagrams Nos. 6 and 7, 69 --on the summit of the lime-stone platform, Val di Noto, 70 --off tuff or peperino, how formed, 70 -- changes caused in argillaceous strata. by, 70 -... on Etna, their form, origin, and com. position, 90 -- at the base of the Serra del Solfizio -see wood-cut, No. 19, 90 --changes caused by, in the escarp-ment of Somma, 91 --in the Val del Bove, as seen from the summit of Etna-see wood-cut No. 22, 93 -- some caused by the filling up of fissures by lava, 122, 123 -- of Somma-see wood-cut No. 25, 122 -- cause of the parallelism of their op-posite sides, 1~2 -- varieties in their texture, 124 --volcanic, in Madeira, 134 -- strata altered by, 368 Diluvial theories, 270 Diluvial waves, whether there are signs of their occurrence on Etna, 101 -- no signs of, in Campania, 128 Dip and direction of the tertiary strata of Sicily, 73 -- of the marine strata at the foot of Etna, 78 Dominica, alternations of coral and lava in, 133 Dorsetshire, Yalleys of elevation in, 308 Dorsetshire and Cambridgeshire, great line of chalk escarpment between, 315 Doue, M. Bertrand de, on the fossil mammiferous remains of Velay, 219 -- on the lacustrine deposits of Velay, 235, 236 -- on the igneous rocks of Vclay, 26~ |