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Show 482 INDEX, Arabian writers of the tenth century, 21 Arbroath, houses, &c., swept away by the sea at, 2G4 Arduino, memoirs of 1759, 49 -- on submarine volcanic eruptions, 49 -- first divided rocks into primary, secondary, and tertiary, 49 -- his views confirmed by Fortis and Desmarest, 51 -- on submarine lavas and trap rocks of the Vicentin, 85 Aristarchus, 197 Aristophanes, his ridicule of the mundane el?g, 12 Aristotelian system, 15 -- theory of spontaneous generation, 26 Arso, Campo del, volcanic eruption from the point called, 333 Arve, sediment transporteu by the, 232 -- section of the debris deposited by the, see iliagram No. G, 254 Ashes, volcanic, immense quantity ejected from the Tomboro mountain, 1815, 404 -- distance to which they were trans-ported, 404 Asia, always subject to earthquakes, 10 --coast of changed, 21 -- causes of the extreme cold of part of, 107 -- Minor, gain of land on the coast of, 308 Atchafalaya, drift wood in the river, 188 -- section of the banks of the, 245 Atlantic, La Place on the mean depth of the, 115 --its relative level, 293 --rise of the tide iu, 293 Atlantis, submersion of, 10 Atrio del Cavallo, 344 Auvergne, Desmarest on the relative ages of the volcanos of, 59 -- Montlosier on volcanos of, 60 --salt uepositefl by springs in, 215 -- carbonic acid gas plentifully dis-engaged in, 216 Ava, Mr. Crawfurd's discovery of fossils in, 33 -- fossil wood of, M. de la Hire's memoir on, 1692, (note) 33 Avalanches, cattle anu men buried by, in Switzerland, 98 Avernus, lake, mephitic vapours formerly exhaleu f1·om, 329 , __ a crater of au extinct volcano, 329 A vicenna, on mineralogy, 21 Azof sea, said to have been united with the Caspian, 320 -new island thrown up in1 321 Azores, icebergs drifted from Baffin's Bay to the, 111 --new islands thrown up near, 3911 438 --siliceous springs of the, 212 BADEN, gypseous springs of, 212 Baffin's Bay, enormous icebergs in, 109 Bagnes, valley of, bursting of a lake in the, 194 Bairo, changes on the coast of the bay of, 449 -- grounc1 plan of the coast of the bay of, see woodcut No. 30, 450 -- section of the strata in tbe bay of; see wooucut No. 31, 450 -- numerous proofs of subsidence in the bay ot~ 454 -- re-elevation of the coast of the bay of, 457 Bakewell, Mr., Jun., on the Falls of Niagara, 181 Baku, escape of inflammable gas in the ilistrict of, 14 . --volcanic tract called the field of fire near, 319 Balaruc, thermal waters of, in the delta of the Rhone, 233 Baldassari on the grouping of or~anic remains in the Sienese tm·ntory, 47 . Baltic sea, Celsius' theory of the iliminution of, 40 -- deltas of the, 227 -- supposed lowering of the level of the, 227 -- action of currents on its shores, 294 Banchina, in Sicily, sea deepened by earthquake near, 416 Banks, on the basalt of Hecla, 58 Barren island, a supposed crater of elev~ tion, 390 -- height of the cone of, &c., 390 --view of the cone and crater of, see woodcut No. 17, 390 -- supposed section of, 393 Basalt of Hesse, Raspe on the true na· ture of, 17G8, 58 --Werner's erroneous theory of, 58 -- of Hecla, Banks, Solander, and Troil, on, 1772, 58 -- of the Vivarais, Guettard on, 58 --of Velay ancl Vivarais, Faujas on, 1779, 58 -- columnar, of Central France, 346 Bursoe, rate of loss of land in the island of, 295 Bassano, Mr. Murchison on the tertiary de1)osits of1 137 lNDEX, 483 Batavia, ea~thquake at, lG99, 4H -- the nver obstructeu and fl l caused, 444 00( s -- cattle, &c., drowned 444 Bauza, his chart of the Gulf of M . 310 eXICO, Bayfield, Cal?t., on the geology of L k Superior, 225 a e Bay of Bengal, its depth opposite the mo~tths of the Ganges, 241 --of Fmclhorn blocked up by d 'ft sand, 300 n Beachey Head, fall of the chalk clt' .t:r f 278 us 0, Beaufort, Capt., on th? gain of land 011 the coast of As1a Minor 309 Beaumont, M. Elie de, on th~ relative age of mountain chains 138 -- on the relative age of the'Pyrenees 138 ' Beechey, Capt., on the depth at which corals grow in Ducic's island, 130 -- on the elevation of the Bay of Conception, 440 Belcher, Capt., on the elevation of Conception Bay, 4r!O Bell rock, stones of two tons weight thrown up by storms on the, 264 Bergmann, on waste of Yorkshire coast 267 ' Beshtau, earthquakes in the province of 437 ' Beudant, on travertine of Hungary 211 Bewick, 273 ' Bhooi, town of, destroyed by earthquake 405 ' Bies Bosch, new bay formed by the sea in Holland, 287 Bigsby, Dr., on the height to which autumnal gales raise the waters of Lake Superior, 226 Biron, ancho1·age at, altered by earthquake, 1815,404 Bin stead, tooth of an Anoplotherium said to have been found at, 153 Bison, found fossil in Yorkshire 96 Bistinea.u, a new lake formed by the Red River, 190 Bitumen, oozing from the bottom of the sea near Trinidad, 218 Bituminous springs, 218 -- shales, 219 Bizona, town submerged, 19 Black lake, 1 90 Black sea, cn.l~ar~ous springs near the, 211 Blue moun tams m Jamaica shattered by earthquakes, 4-!G Bluffs of Mississippi described 186 Boase, Mr., his account of the Lionnesse tradition, 283 -- on inroads· of sea ncar Penzance1283 Boase, Mr., on drift sand in Cornwall 301 Bogota, en~thquake of, 1827, 401 ' Bologna, mstitute of, supports diluvial . hypothesis, 42 BonnJutus, on the subsidence of the coast of Sicily, 445 Bore, tidal wave culled the, 292 the, very frequent in the Bristol channel, ~92 -- yery common in the Ganges, 292 - Its cause and velocity ~9\:l Boscombchine 281 ' Boscovich, hi~ theory of earthquakes. 1772, 53 ' -- supposed earthquakes to have grown feebler, 53 Bothnia, ~adual conversion of the gulf of, mto c.lry-land 228 Bout:, M., on the strata 'or the Pyrenees 138 ' Bourbon, island, volcanic 324 Bourdones, river, shoal ~pheaved at its mouth, 410 Boyle, remarks of on the bottom of the . . se~, (note) 30 Braclm, his clescrtption of Vesuvius before _the eruption of 1631 338 Brahmms, 7 ' Brander, on the fossils of Hampshire 52 Rr~nta, delta of the, 236 ' Bneslak, on the subsidence of the mole at Puzzuoli, 455 -- on the .temp~e of Serapis, 456 -- on pnsmabc lavas of Vesuvius 346 ' Br~ghton~ waste of the cliffs of, 279 Brme sprmgs of Cheshire 215 Brocchi, his discourse o~ fossil conchology, (note) 23 - on Humet's theory, 41 -- on.the deposition of the Subapen-nmc beds, 135 -- his account of the various writers on the uelta of the Po 236 Broderip, Mr., on the opossu~ of Stones. field, (note) 150 -- shell.s from Conception Bay ex~ mmed by, (note) 441 Brongmn:~ M. Ad., on the fossil plants of,the coal formation l 00 · -- on the fossil plants of strata between the coal and the chalk l 01 -- on the proportion of fe~·ns to othet I?lants in islands, 123 Brongn_un.t, ~-Alex., on the comparative msigtuficnnce of modem lava~ streams, 375 -- on s~1 ells o.f existing species at great l~e1ghts m Sweden, 230 Browalhus, on the filling 111> of the gulf of Bothnia1 229 · 212 |