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Show 502 INDEX, Plants, Baron Humboldt on the laws go. voruing the distribution of, 101 Plastic force, fossil shells ascribed to, 23 Plastic virtue, theory of, 77 Plastic cla.y, destitute of mammiferous remains, 152 Plato, remarks on Egyptian cosmogony in the ' Timreus' of, 9 Playfair, on the Huttonian Theory, 65, 69 -- ou extinction of species, 86 -- on the instability of the earth's surface, 197 Pliny the elder, 20 -- on the delta of the Rhone, 232 -- his account of the islands at the mouth of the Texel, 288 -- on the gain of land at the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates, 290 -- his. wonder that a day should 1)ass ~Vlthout general ~onflagration, 470 -- k1lled by erupbon of Vesuvius A.D. 79,331 Pliny the younger, his account of the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79,331 -- does not mention the overwhelming of Herculaneum and Pompeii, 331 Plomb du Can tal, description of the, 395 Plot, organic remains ascribed to a ' plastic virtue,' by, 31 Pluche, theory of, 1732, 41 Plutarch, 9 Po, river, frequent shifting of its course, 183 -- embankment of tho, 184 -- its surface above the houses of Ferrara, 184 -- delta of the, 235 -- and Adige, their union not yet comvlete, 253 Point del Garclo enlarged by earthquakes, 437 Polistena, fissures caused by earthquakes near, see woodcut No. 19, 417 --circular subsidence near, see woodcut No. 25, 422 ....-- part of the town of, rletached into a contiguous ravine, by landslips, 426 Pompeii, how destroyed, 349 -- section of the mass enveloping, 350 -- depth to which the ashes of the eruption of 1822 covered, 350 · --has not been overflowed by lava, 352 -- was a sea port, 353 -- one-fourth now excavated, 354 -- number of skeletons found in, 354 -- objects preserved in, 354 -- rolls of papyrus illegible in, 356 Pomponius Mela, his description ofMese, 233 Pomponius Mela, on the origin of Lake Flevo, 288 Pontanus, his account of the eruption in Ischia, 333 Ponte Leucano, quarries of travertiu at 2~ I Pont Gibaud, gneiss rocks decomposed by carbonic acid, 216 -- calcareous springs near, 201 Poole Bay cut deeply into by the waves ~0 I Popayan, volcanos in, 316 -- shaken during earthquake of Bogota, 1827, 401 Port at~ Prince destroyed by earthquake lll 1751, 440 Portland, Hooke's remarks on the fossil ammonites of, 33 -- its peninsula continually wastes, 281 Port Royal, subsidence of the houses &c., 446 ' Portugal, frequent earthquakes in, 323 --the mountains of, shattered by earthquake of, 1755, 438 Port V allais ancient town in the delta of the Rhone, 221 Po Vecchio, a deserted channel of the Po, 183 Prevost, M., on the gypseous springs of Baden, near Vienna, 212 Prichard, Dr., on the cosmogony of the Egyptians, 9 on the Egyptian theory of eternal succession, 156 Priory of Crail, its last remains swe1)t . away by the waves, 265 Procida, ~emarksofancient writers on,327 Progressive development of organic life, theory of, 144 Promontories, their effect in protecting low shores, 264 Psalmodi, formerly an island, 233 Puglia, fossil elephant found at, 25 Purbeck, its peninsula continually wast-ing, 281 Purchas, on the elevation of the coast of Chili, 442 Puzzuoli, Temple of Serapi!i near, 449 -- gronnd plan of the environs of~ see woodcut No. 30, 450 -- sections on the shore to the north of, 451 -- date of the re-elevation of the coast of, 457 -- rate of the encroachment ofthe sea near, 458 Pyrenees, their rel11.tive age, height, &c., 137 -- M. Bou~ on the strata of the, 138 -- M. Dufrimoy on the relative age ofthe, 138 . 1 INDgX. 503 Pyrenees, M. Elie de Beaumont on the relative age of the, 138 Pythagoras, on Etna, 313 Pythagorean system, 12 QuADRU?rfANOUS animals not found fossil, 152 Quebec, excessive climate of, 107 Quero destroyed by earthquake, 1797, 410 Quilotoa, Lake, cattle killed by suffocating vapours from, 410 Quintero elevated by earthquake of1822, to the height of four feet, 402 Quirini, theory of, 30 Quito, earthquake of, 1797, 410 -- extent of the district convulsed, 410 -- earthquake in, 1698,445 RAl'T, the, an immense mass of drift timber in the Mississippi, 187 Raffles, Sir S., his account of the eruption in Sumbawa, 1815, 404 Ramazzini ridicules Burnet's theory, 41 Raspe on islands shifting their position (note), 14 -- his theory, 1 763, 51 -- on earthquakes, 51 -- on the systems of Hooke, Ray, Moro, Buffon and others, 51 -- on the former heat of the climate of Europe, 52 -- on new islands raised within the time of history among the Azores, &c., 52 --- his admiration of Hooke's writings, 52 -- on the basalt ofllesse, 58 -- on the elevation of the coast of Chili, 442 Ravenna formerly a sea-port, now four miles inland, 236 Ravines, size of those formed by Galabrian earthquake in 1783,421 - in Calabria filled up with mud dur-ing earthquake of 1783, 427 Ray, his physico-theology, 35 ___._ on earthquakes, 35 --on the effects of running water, 36 -- on the encroachment of the sea UJ)Oll the shores, 36 --on the consuming of the world by fire, 36 --his remarks on Woodward's diluvial theory, 37 - · - on the encroachment of the sea at Dunwich, 273 Re-creation of species after catastrophes taught by the ancients, 17 -- taught by the Gerbanites, an Arabian sect, 17 Reculvcr cliff, encroachment of the sea on, 275 Recupero, his account of the advance of a lava-current, 366 Red River, formation of new lakes by the, 190 -- and Mississippi, their junction probably very recent, 252 Refrigeration, Leibnitz's theory of, 40 Rennell, Major, on the delta of the Ganges, ~41 --on the new islands formed by the Ganges, 243 --on the quantity ofwater discharged by the Ganges per second, 247 -- on the proportion of sediment in its waters, 247 -- on the causes of currents, 258 -- his description of the wave called the Bore, 292 -- on the drift sand at the mouth of the Nile, 300 Renovation and destruction of the world, an oriental dogma, 9 Reproductive cfl'ccts of running water, 220 Resina overflowed by lava, 338 Rhine, description of its course, 285 --inroads of the sea upon its delta, 286 -- size of its present d~lta, 286 Rhinoceros fossil, found entire by Pallas in Siberia, 54 Rhone, delta of the, in the Mediterranean, 232 -- marine and freshwater shells in its delta, 234 -- delta of the, in t.he Lake of Geneva, 250 -- debris deposited at its confluence with the Arve, see diagram No. 6, 254 Riccioli, Signor, on the formation of a granular kind of travertin, 206 Richardson, Dr., on imbedding of animals in snow, 98 --on the formation of icebergs, 98 -- on a calcareous formation near the Mackenzie river, 127 Riobamba destroyed by earthquake, 410 Rivers, difference in the sediment trans• ported by, 90 --sinuosities of,·see diagram No.2, 170 -- two equal, when they become con-fluent clo not occupy bed of double surface, 173 Rocks, first divided into primary, secondary, and tertiary, by Arduino, 49 Kirwan on the aqueous origin of all, 68 hardest, rendered fit for soils by oxygen of the atmosphere, 169 |