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Koran, cosmogony of tho, 22 Kossa, his history of tho Patriarchs and Prophet!:', (note) 23 Kurile Isles, nine active volcanos in the, 317 L.\CUS'l'RINE formation, none yet discovered of the carboniferous era, 130 Lake Eril', rapid filling up of, 182 -- of Geneva, delta of Rhone iu the, 221 -- 1\.Jat·eotis filled up by the Nile, 23!) -- Superior, deltas of, 225 Superior, greatest depth and extent of, 225 Superior, height of above the sea, 225 -- Superior, currents in, 226 -- Superior, nature of its sediment, 226 -- Superior, analogy between it.s de-posits ancl tho marls, &c., of Central :France, 227 -- inundation caused by the bursting of a, in the valley of Bagnes, 1 !)4 -- furmecl by subsidence in the Caraccas, 411 -- formed by the earthquake near Seminara, 422 Lukes, bursting of, 192 -- filling up of, 223 -- formed by landships in Calab1·ia, 424 -- formation of, in tho basin .of the Mississippi, 190 -- fOt·mecl by earthquakes in the valley of tho Mississippi, 408 -- number of new ones formed in Calabria. by earthquakes ofl783, 427 Lancashire, submarine forests on the coast of, 283 Lancerote, volcanic eruption in, 381 -- villages overflowed by lava in, 381 -- cattle in, suffocatecl by putrid va-pours, 381 -- thirty new cones thrown up in, 382 -- recent eruption in the island of, 384 Land, irregular distribution of, 121 -- qnantity of in northem and southern hemispheres, 121 -- animals, why rare in oldest strata., 149 Landguo.rd Fort, waste of tho point on which it stands, 274 La.ndslips in Dorsetshiro, 281 -- ncar Mileto, houses carried down a. ravine, but uninjured, ·12G -- in Calabria, lakes formed by, '12-l -- nt J?ra Ramoudo, see wooucut No. 26,425 -- in Jamaica dlll'ing earthquake, 446 Langsdorf, on tho new island thrown up near Kamtscha.tka, 408 Languedoc, Marsilli on the deposits of the coast of, 235 Laplace decide!! against change in the earth's axis, 39 -- on the mean depth of the AUautic an<l Pacific Oceans, 115 -- proved that no contraction of the globe hatl takeu place for 2000 years, 141 Lapland, why milder than Greenland,107 Lapitlifying juice, 25 Latitude only one of the causes which influence climate, 111 Laureano., ravines fillecl up with mud during earthquake of 1783 ncar, 427 Lava., excavation of in Central France, 176 --of Etna excavated by t·ivCt·s, 177 -- mineralogical composition of that cut through by the Simeto, 178 -- effects of decomposition on, 346 -- flowing under water, 348 Lavas, parallel between those of Iceland and Central 'France, 373 -- comparative volume of ancient and modern, 374 --pretended rlistinclion between an-cient and modern, 384 La.zzoro Moro, see Moro Lehman, treatise of, 1759, 4!) --divided mountains into three classes, 49 Lcibnih, his Protogroa., 1680, 40 -- imaginecl this planet to have been a. burning luminous mass, 40 --his theory of gradual refrigeration, 40 -- diluviD.l theory of, 40 -- universal ocean of, waters how lowered, 40 -- his theory afterwards adopted by Buffon tmcl De Luc, 40 Leman Lake, delta of the Rhone in the, 221 Lesbos, Ant.issa. joined to, by delta, 13 Loybucht, its bay formed in thirteenth century, 289 Lightning, remarkable effect of in the Shetlantl islands, 260 Lima destroyetl by earthquake, 442 l .. imestone, caverns how formed in, 211 Lincolnshire, incm·sions of the sea on the coast of, 267 -- its coast protectetl hy embankments, 267 Linnrous advocates Celsius's theory, 40 -- his remark on the filling up of the Gu.lf of Bothnia, 228 INDEX. 497 L~on~esse, tradition in Cornwall 283 Lq>art, 1!) ' Lippi, his account of tho destruction of . . Ilcrculanoum aml Pompuii 351 L1psms, 15 ' Lister, the first to propose geological maps, 31 -- described fossil shells as turbinated antl bivalve stones 31 Lisllon, earthquakes at, 3123 -- eartl:quake of, 1755, 438 -- subsHlence of. the quay at, 438 -- area over wh1ch the earthquake of, extended, 43!) -- great wave caused by the earth-quake of, 43!) -- the shocks felt far out at sea, 439 -- velocity of the shock:; at, 440 Lloyd, Mr., on the relative levels of the Atlantic and Pacific, 293 Lochead, on tho gain of land Oil coast of Guiana, 310 Loch Lomond, agitation of its waters during Lisbon earthquake, 440 Locke, panegyrizes Whiston's theory, 3!) Loffredo, on the elevation of tho recent deposits in tho Bay of Baioo, 45G London, height of the tides at, 257 London clay, organic remains of the, 100, 152 Lontuc, river, in Chili, converted into a. lake by landslips, 438 Lough N eagh, supposed petrifying power of, 214 Louisiana, Darby on tho ma1·ine strata of lower, 1!>1 Lowestoff, small rise of the tides at, 257 -- current off the coast of, 271 -- roatls, their breadth a.ntl depth, 272 -- Ness, description of, 272 -- rise of the tides at, 272 --cliffs undermined ncar, 272 Lubeck, 22!) Luckipour, its inhabitants swept away by the Ganges, 244 -- new islantls formed near, 243 Luckput, subsidence in the channel of tho Indus ncar, 406 Lulea., ra.picl advance of the land at, in tho Gulf of Bothnia., 228 Luzon, three active volcanos in, 318 Lyme Regis, gradual tlecay of tho lias clitls of~ 282 MACEDONIA always. subject to earthquakes, 323 Mackenzie river, formation of icebergs on the shores of the, 98 --drift wood of the, 102 -- a calcareous formation ncar its mouth, 127 Vor .. I. Mncmurdo, Captain, ou the earthquake of Cutchin Bombay, 181!), 406 Madagascar said to contain active vol. canos, 324 Matleira, earthquakes violent in, 324 Maastricht, calcareous bods of, 139 --Dr. Fitton on the calcareous beds of, 140 Magda~cna, fis~ destroyed by earthquake lll the rtver, 401 Magnesia,_ sul+>hate of, deposited by ~pnn~s 111 Tuscany, 204 Mag11Cs1an hmestono and tmvertin compared, 205 Ma.homedan doctors opposed to cultivation of science, 21 Mahomet, his cosmogony 23 M:ajoli, fi~st taught that s!'telly strata were ratsed by volcanic explosions 15!)7, 26 I Mallet, Captain, ·on petroleum of Tri-nidad, 218 Malpais, recellt change of climate in the plain of, 124 -- theories to account for the con• vexity of the plain of, 377, 387 Malte-Brun, on the heat derived by the western part of the old continent from Africa., 107 -- on the comparative iusi~nificance of the height of mountams, 113 Mammoth, Oil the climate, &c., probably required by the, 96 --bones of the, found in Yorkshire 96 -- Siberian, 97 ' -- Dr. Fleming on the, 97 Man, unfavourable position of, for observing changes now in progress 81 ' -- recent origin of, 1 53 -. - his remains only found in the most modern stmta, 153 remains of~ not more perishable than those of other animals, 154 --remarks on the superiority of, 155 -- analogy of changes caused by, to those produced by other animals, 161 Manetho, 77 Manfredi, on the quantity of sediment in river water, 246 Mantell, Mr., on the fossils of the chalk, 140 Manwantaras, oriental cycle of ages, 6 Maracaybo, lake, subsidence of its waters, during earthquake, 407 Marble deposited from springs, 211 Maritime Alps, conglomerates forming along the base of the, 252 Marsilli, on the arrangement of shells in the Adriatic, 44, 47 2K |