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486 INDEX. Coal strata, rarity of dicotyledonous wood in the, 147 --formation, not found in the south of Europe, 126 Colebrooke, Mr. II. T., on the crocodiles of the Ganges, 243 Colebrooke, Major, on tho course of the Ganges, 247 - on the transportation of matter by the Ganges, 24 7 Colle, travertin of, 201 College, trausportation of rocks by the, . 174 Collini, ou the igneous rocks of the Rhine, 1774, 58 Colombia, eartl)quakes in, 437 Colonna, his theory of organic remains, 27 -- first distinguished between marine and land fossil shells, 27 Comet, deluge attributed by Whiston to a, 39 Concentric travertin of Tivoli, 208 Conception, destruction of the town of by earthquake, in 1750, 440 -- great elevation of the bay of, 440 Conflagration of the world, 24 -- of the earth, described by Burnet, 38 Conglomerate forming at the foot of the maritime Alps, 2f>2 -- forming at the mouth of the Isonzo, 237 -- volcanic, in the Isle of Lancerote, 383 Convergence of deltas, 251 Conyl)eare, Rev. W. D., on the rocks of the Bristol coal field, 132 Cook, Captain, his conjecture as to the existence of high land near the South Pole, 109 Copernican theory, edicts against re­pealed at Rome in 1818, 62 Cordier, M., on the temperature of the interior of the earth, 142 Cordilleras shaken by earthquakes in 1812 and 1827, 401, 407 Cork, dicotyledonous wood in the gray­wacke of, 14 7 Cornwall, Mr. Boase on waste of the cliffs of, 283 - land inundated by drift saud in, 301 Cortesi, 53 Cosmogony distinct from geology, 4 -- of the Hindoos, 5 -- Egyptian, 9 -- of the Koran, 22 Costantini, deluge vindicate<l by, 42 Cotopaxi, 315 Cowper, 67 Craters of elevation, Von Buch's theory of, considered, 386 Crawfurd, Mr., his discovery of fossils in Ava, S3 Creation, Mahomet's account of the, 22 -- Moro's theory of the, adapted to th1J Mosaic account, 43 Cremona, lakes filled up or drained ncar, 183 Crimea, waste of the cliff9 in the, 294 Crocodiles of two species in the delta of the Ganges, 243 Cromer, waste of the cliffs of, 269 -- its ancient site now part of the German Ocean, 269 Culver cliff, composed of chalk, 279 Cumana, earthquake of, 1797, 410 -- town of, destroyed, 410 Current along the shores of Egypt, 239 -- along the coast of Africa, 309 --sediment of the Amazon trans11orted by,309 Currents from equatorial regions, 108 -- from the Pole to tho Equator, 118 -- section of debris deposited by op-posing, see diagram No. 6, 254 -- cau5ieS of, 256 -- destroying and transporting power of, 256 -- in estuaries, their power, 264 -- in the Straits of Gibraltar, 295 ......_ sediment conveyed to immense dis­tances by, 308, 310 -- gain of land on coast of Syria caused by, 308 -- re11roductive effects of, 303 -- their course on the British shores 303 Curves of the Mississippi, 186 Cutch, in Bombay, earthquake of, 1819, 405 Cuvier, his 6logc of Desmarest, 60 -- on the opossum of Stonesficlu, 150 -- his remurk on the durability of tho hones of men, 154 Cyprus, rocks reported to have risen ncar, during earthquake in 1822J 403 DANmu,, on the trade-winds, 118 Danish Archipelago, undermined by cur~ rents, 294 Dante, embankment of rivers noticed by, 184 Dantzic, waste of the land ncar, 294 Darby, on the drift wood of the Missis­sippi, 187 --his account ofthenewlakcs formed by the Red Rivor, 190 -- on the marine strata of Lower Louisiana, 191 487 Deltas, oceanic, 240 INDEX.· Darby, 2~~ the delta of the Mississippi, Daubeny, Dr., on the volcanic origin of -- remark!! on the grouping of strata in, 2-19 the country round the Dead Sea 215 • ' -- on the vicinity of volcanos to the sea, 468 D'Aubuisson, his eulogium of Smith's map of England, 71 Davy, Sir H., on the waters of the lake of the Solfatara, 207 -- on the formation of travertin 207 -- his theory of progressive d~velop-ment, 144 -- on the rebuilding of cities on the same spot after their destruction by lava, 358 Davy, Rev. C., on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755,438 Dead Sea, muriatic salts abundant in its waters, 215 -- the country around it volcanic, 322 Dee, river, bridge over, swept away by floods, 174 Deficiency of ancient accounts of earth­quakes, 399 De la Beche, Mr., on the delta of the Rhone in the lake of Geneva, 221 De la Hire, on fossil wood from Ava 1692,33 ' Delhi territory, elephants covered with shaggy hair in tho, 99 Delta of the Rhone, in Lake of Geneva, 221 -- proofs of its advance in the last eighteen centuries, 232 -- of the Rhone in th~ Mediterranean, 232 -- its gradual advance, 232 -- in great part composed of calcare-ous rock, 234 -- of the Po, 235 -- of the Isonzo, 236 -- of the Tagliamento, 236 -- of the Brenta, 236 -- of the Adige, 236 -- of the Nile, ~38 -- changes in, since the time of Ho-mer, 238 -- of the Burrampooter, 240 - . - of the Ganges, 240 -- animals inhabiting the, 241 -- stratification of the, 253 -- of the Mississippi, 245 -- its advance since New Orleans was built, 245 -- its stratification, 253 Deltas, chronological com1mtations of the age of, ~23 -- of Lake Superior, 225 - of the Baltic, 227 -- convergence of, 251 -- independent in same basin, 251 -- of the Po and Adige have become confluent, 251 -- of the Ganges and Burrampooter have probably become confluent in historical times, 252 De Luc, his treatise on geology, 1809, 68 -- affirmed that religion was attacked by geology, 68 -- o~ the excavation of valleyR, 70 -- h~~2remarks on the age of delta!!, -- his natural chronometers, 301 Deluge, of Deucalion, 15 ~- described in the Koran, 22 -- me~tioned by Persian magi, 22 - fossll shells referred to the, 23 -- Ray on the causes of the, 36 -- Burnet and Woodward's account of the, 37 -- attributed by Whiston to a comet 39 1 -- all stratified deposits referred to by Whiston, 39 ' -- cause of, how explained by Leib-nitz, 40 -- Scheuchzer's theory of the, 40 -- Pluchc on the, 41 -- truth of the, supported by Costan~ tini, 42 -- Catcott's treatise on the, 50 -- Bishop Clayton's explanation of the, 50 -- Cimbrian, 205 Deluges part of the present course of Nature, 89 --local, how caused, 192 --traditions of different, 320 Denmark free from earthquakes, 232 Derbyshire, Whitehurst on the rocks of 53 ' Deshayes, M., on the fossil shells of the Paris basin, 100 Desmarest considered geology a branch of physical geography, 4 -- Arduino's views confirmed by, 58 --on Auvergnc, ~9 -- characte1· of his map of, 59 --his answer to a Nclltunist, 60 -- on the separation of England from France, 277 Destruction and renovation of the world, an oriental doctrine, 9 Deterioration of mankind, 9 --origin ofthe doctrine, 10 Deucaliou's deluge, Aristotle's opinion of, 15