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Show 488 INDEX. Dicotyledonous wood in the coal strata of Northumberland, 147 --in the graywacke of Cork, 147 Dikes in Vesuvius, how formed, 342 Diluvial theory, 29 --progress of geology retarded by the, 30 ·--opposed by geolo~ists ofTus.cany, 42 --supported by Insbtute ofBologna,42 Dimlington height, rapic1 waste of, 266 Diodorus Siculus on early eruptions of Etna, 363 Dion Cassius, his account o( the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, 332 Dioscorides, 25 Disputations, scholastic, effect of in dark af?CS, 25 Dollart, formation . of the estuary of the, 289 Dolomicu on the strata of the Val di Noto, Vicentin, and T,r-ol, 60 --on the ancient lavas of Etua, 59 --on the decomposition of granite, 217 --on the earthquake of 1783 in Cala-bria 413 Don, trans~ortation of rocks by the river, 174 Donati, his investigation of the bed of the Adriatic, 1750, 47, 85, 236 Dorsetshire, description .of a landslip in, 281 Dover, waste of the chalk cliffs of, 276 --depth of the sea near, 276 -- formation of the Straits of, 277 Dranse, river draining the Valley of Bagucs, 194 . --shifted its course after the debacle of 181 S in Valley of Bagnes, 195 Drift sand of the African deserts, cities buried under, 301 - ·-wood of the Mississippi, 187, 245 Drongs, granitic rocks of Shetland worn away by the sea, see woodcuts No.9 and 10, 262 Druids, their belief in future catastrophes of the world, 19 Ducic's Isle, Captain Beechey on the formation of coral in, 130 Dufu~noy, M., on the relative age of the Pyrenees, 138 Dunes, hills of blown sand, coast of Nor-folk protected by, 268 -- on coast of France, 300 - near the estuary of the Tay, 300 --on the shores of the Nile, 300 Dunwich, its gradual destruction by the sea, 272 -- Gardner's account of the destruction of, 272 Durham, magne~ian limestone of, in· vaded by the sea1 266 EARTII1 antiquity of the, 24 -- centre of gravity of the, a change in it supposed by Ray, 36 -- axis of the, has not cl).anged according to Newton and Laplace, 39 -- a cl1ange in the axis of the, a leading dogma in Burnet's theory, ~9 -- inorganic causes of change on 1ts surface, 167 Earthquake in Murcia, 1829, 400 --in Bogota, 1827, 401 --in Chili, 18'22, 401 --in Aleppo, 1822, 403 --in the Ionian isles, 1820,403 --in the island of Sumbawa, 1815, 403 --of Cutch, 1819,405 --in Caraccas, 1812, 407 --in South Carolina, 1811,407 -- in the Aleutian isles, 18061 408 --in Quito, 1797,410 --in Cumana, 17971 410 --in Caraccas, 1790, 410 --in Sicily, 1790, 411 --in Java., 1786, 411 --in Calabria, 1783, 412 -- duration of the shocks, 412 --numerous accounts of, 413 --extent of the territory convulsed, 414 --iu Java, 1772, 436 -- in the Caucasus, 1772, 43.7 --in Java, 1771 1 437 --in Colombia, 1766, 437 -- in Chili, 1760, 437 --in the Azores, 1757, 438 --in Lisbon, 1755, 438 --in St. Domingo, 1751, 440 --in Conception, 1750, 440 -- in Pen1, 17 46, 442 --in Kamtschatka, 1737, 443 --in Martinique, 1727, 443 --in Iceland, 1725, 443 --in Teneriffe1 1706, 443 --in Java, 1699, 444 -- in Quito, 1698, 445 --in Sicily, 1693, 445 --in the Moluccas, 1693, 445 --in Jamaica, 16921 445 Earthquakes, Asia always subject to, 10 --Egypt nearly exempt from, 1 0 -- Strabo's theory of, 18, 34 -- Hooke on the chauges caused by, 34 -- under the sea, Hooke's opinion of, 34 --simultaneous extent of, mentioned by Hooke, 34 --Lazzoro Moro on, 1740, 42 -- Generelli's .account of, 45 -- Michell on the cause and pheno-mena of, 50 --originalit~ of Michell's theory of, oO INDEX. 489 Earthquakes~ Raspe's theory of, 1763, 51 -- Boscov1ch on the effects of 1772 53 --Hutton's theory of, no ad'vance' on that of Hooke 63 --Hutton's !heory of, compared to Generelh's, 64 --energy of, probably uniform as regards the whole earth, 64 -- force of, confined for ages to one place, 64 -- their wadual operation in former ages, 88 --earth's surface continually remodelled by, 113 -- in the basin of the Mississippi in 1812,191 -- all countries liable to slight shocks of, 324 --their effects, 399 -- deficiency of ancient accounts of 399 ' --atmospheric phenomena attending 400 I -- difficulty of measuring the effects of, 416 --excavation of valleys aided by, 433 --reflections on those of the nineteenth century, 409 -- reflections on those of the last one hundred and forty years, 447, 473 - deficiency of historical records con-cerning, 447 --·renovating effects of, 474, 479 -- uniformity of the action of, 460 --opinions of the ancients concerning, 462 --and volcanos, their relation, 463 -- cause of the wave-like motion of, and retreat of the sea during, 470 Ecchellensis, Abraham, 17 Edmonston island at the mouth of the Ganges, 242 Egypt, hills of, known by the priests to contain fossil shells, 1 -- nearly exempt from earthquakes, 11, 323 Egyptian theory of eternal succession of events, 156 --cosmogony, 9 Elephant, fossil in India, (note) 8 -- fossil, in ice on shores of the North Sen, 54 -- fossil tusks of the, found at Puglia, 25 --fossil of Italy, Targioni on the, 49 Elephants covered with shaggy hair in the Delhi territory, 99 Elevation of land by earthquakes, Hooke on the, 34 • - of continents, not by 'paroxysmal crurtions; 88 Elevation craters, Von Buch's theory of, considered, 386 -- of the coast of Chili, 402 -- of the Bay of Conception, 441 --anrl subsidence, proportion of, 476 Elk, fossil, noticed by Generelli 44 Elsa, travertin formed by the 20 l Embankment, system of in Italy 18-l -- noticed by Dante in the fo~rtecnth century, 184 --gain of land in the Adriatic more rapid in conS()quence of 236 Engelhard, on the Caspian se; 319 Englan?, Sm~th's map of, 70 ' --D AubUJsson's eulogium on Smith's map of, 71 --waste ofland on the east coast of, 266 -- encroachments of the sea on the south coast of, 278 --slight shocks of earthquakes felt in 325 ' Epomeo, Monte, structure, height &c. 328 --of submarine origin, 329 ' ' --. volcanic cones on, 329 Equmoxes, procession of the, 110 Eratosthenes, 18 Eruptions, volcanic, number of per year 397 , Erzgebirl?e, mistake of Werner as to the tmca slate of the, 57 Escher, M., on the flood in the valley of Bagnes, 195 Essex, inroads of the sea. on the coast of. 275 I Estuary of the Thames both gains and loses land, 275 Estuaries described, 265 -- new ones formed by the sea in Holland, 289 -- kept open by the combined influence of tides and currents 304 -- tide longer flowing down than up in some, 304 -- gain of land in, docs not compensate loss of coast, 304 Etampes, Voltaire's remarks on the discovery of fossil bones near, 66 Etangs, or salt lakes in the delta of the Rhone, 234 Etna, Dolomieu on ancient lavas of, 59 -- difference between the lavas of and those of submarine volcanos: 128 --lavas of, excavated by rivers, 177 -- quantity of lava poured out in 1669 by, 248 -- comparison between the lavas of and the se<liment of the Ganges: 248 -- unusually active llnring the great pause in the eruptions of Vesu.vius, 334 |