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Show 500 INDEX. Newhaven, arsenal and dock overflowed by the sea, 265 New York, excessive climate of, 107 New Zealand has no indigenous land q uadmpeds, 120 Niagara, excavation caused by the re-cedin~ cataract of, 80 -- falls of, 179 -- Capt. Hall on, 180 --Mr. Bakewell, Jun. on, 181 -- width, &c. of the falls of, 180 -- their gradual recession, 181 -- probably once at Queenstown, 181 -- probable time which they will re-quire to reach Lake Eric, 181 Nicaragua, volcanos in, 316 Nictl, depth of the Mediterranean ncar, 237,252 -- tertiary conglomerate of, 238 Nicolosi destroyed by earthquake, 364 Niebuhr cited, 7 4 Nile, dtllta of the, 238 -- its delta modified since the time of Homer, 238 -- its ancient mouths, 238 Nipon, great number of volcanos in, 318 Norfolk, waste of the cliffs of, 267 -- ancient villages washed away in, 269 -- gain of land on its coast, 270 Norte, transportation of sediment by the river, 310 North America, animals imbedded in icc and snow in, 08 Northmavine, blocks of stone drifted by the sea, see woodcut No. 7, 260 N orthstrand, account of its destruction by the sea, 290 Northum berland, dicotyledonous wood found in the coal-field of, 147 -- land destroyed by the sea in, 266 Notre Dame des Ports, formerly a harbour, now a league from the shore, 23.'3 Norway free from earthquakes, 232 Norwich once situated on an arm of the sea, 269 Nugent, Dr., on the Pitch I~akc of Trinidad, 218 Nymphs, temple of, under water in the Bay of Bairo, 454 Nyoe, a new island formed in 17831 372 OnsEQUENs, his account of an eruption in Ischia, 92 B.C., SU}lposed erroneous, 334 Obsidian, regarded by W ernorians as of aqueous origin, 60 Ocean, permanency of the level of the, 459 Oceanic deltas, 240 Odoardi,,on the distinct ages of the Apeumne and Subapennine stntta, 51 Ogygian deluge, 320, 33~ Oh10,junction of with the Mississippi, 185 Old red sandstone, scales of fish found in the, 148 Olivi considered fossil remains as sports of nature, 1552, 26 -- on the distribution of souiment in the Adriatic, 237 Omar, persecuted for his work on the "Retreat of thtl Sea," 21 Oolitic series, remains of cetacea in tho, 150 Opossum, remains of an, found in tho Stonesficld slate, 150 Oppiuo, t.hc central point of the Cala· brian earthquake, 415, 420 -- houses engulphed in, 420 -- chasm in a hill near, see woodcut No. 23,420 Orcin, river, 203 Organic life, effect of changes in land and sea on, 113 Organic remains, controversy as to the 1·eal nature of, 23 -- marino, referred by some to the Mosaic deluge, 23 -- theory of Majoli conceming, 1597, 26 -- not rofenible to the ueluge according to Palissy, 15801 26 Moro on, 42 -- Genorelli on, 44 -- progress of the French in the study 0 f, 72 -- importance of the study of, 72 -- contemporary origin of rocks 11rovcd by, 72 -- growing im11ortance of the study of, 73 -- unity of the system in distant eras proved by, 73 -- from the lias to the chalk, inclusive, 133 -- abrupt tro.nsition from .those of the secondary to those of the tertiary rocks, 139 -- oftho oldest strata, 147 Orinoco, subsidence of a small island in the, 437 Orkney Islands, promontory of Sanda cut off by tho sea, 2G3 Orpheus, on the duration of the Annus Magnus,!) Orwell river has shifted its course very recently, 27 4 Otranto, fossils of, 94 Ovid, his account of the Pythagorean system, 12 Owthornc, village of, in great part destroyed by the sra, 26G -- mte of encroachment at, 266 INDEX. 501 Oxygen, its action on rocks, 16!J PAcwxc ocean, La Place on the mean depth of the, 115 shelly limestone now forming in the south, 130 -- its mean h!light above tho Atlantic 2!)3 ' -- a vast theatre of igneous action, 318 Padua, Arduino on tho mountains of, 4!) Prestum, formation of limestone near ~6 I Pal<efie.ld, waste of tho cliffs at, 272 -- v1llage nearly swept away, 272 Palermo, rocks in tho bay perforated by shells, 231 -- its outline not changed in last two thousand years, 231 Palestine shaken by earthquakes, 321 Paley, Dr., on the uniformity of the plan of nature, 15!) Palissy, first French writer who asserted the true nature of organic remains, 27 Pallas, on the mountain-chains of Siberia, 5! -- ou tho former greater extent of the Caspian Sea, 54 -- on the fossil bones of Siberia, 54 -- fossil rhinoceros found entire by, 54 -- on the calcareous Sllriugs of tho Caucasus, 210 ~- on the action of cunonts in the Euxine, 2!)4 on the former union of the Cas- 11ian and Azof Seas, 320 on the new island in tho Sea of Azof, 321 Palma, geological description of the isle of, 388 -- view of the isle of, and of the Caldera, see woodcut No.l61 388 Panama, rise of the tides in the Bay of, 293 Papandayang, volcanic eruption of, 436 -- its cone truncated, 437 Papa Stour, Shetland, waste of the granitic rocks of, 263 Paradise, Burnet on the seat of, 38 Papyrus rolls still legible discovered in Herculaneum, 356 · -- importance of their discovery entirely overlooked, 357 Paris Basin, alternation of marine and freshwater beds of the, first noticed by Soldaui, 52 -- freshwater fonnations of the, 99 M. Desha yes 011 tho fossil shells of the, 100 Paris Basin, organic remains of the, 151 -- num bcr of shells found in the, 151 Parma, recent organic remains at, 94 -- marshes and lakes filled up near, 183 -- thickness of tho tertiary marls ncar, 237 Parrot, on the Caspian sea, 319 Parry, Captain, highest northern latitude reached by, 109 Passo Manzanelli, waterfalls in the lava of, 178 Pasto, throe volcanos in, 316 Patrizio's dialogues, tll Pedamentin111 description of the, 343 Pelagian formations, their internal ar-rangement, 310 Pembrolu~shirc, tradition of great loss of land in, 283 Pennant, on the encroachments of the sea on the Yorkshire coast, 2661267 Pcnzancr, loss of land near, 282 Perforatiug shells, 231 Persian Magi on tho deluge, 22 Perthshiro, scales of fish iu the old red sandstone of, 148 Peru, on] y one volcano yet known in, 315 -- subject to earthquakes, 315 -- earthquake of 17 46 in, 442 -- volcanos in eruption at the same time in, 442 Petroleum springs in Sicily, 218 -- on the Irawadi. 218 Pharos ~~incd to Egypt by delta of Nile, -- formerly an island, 238 -- Horner on its distance from Egypt, 238 -- Strabo's remark on Homer's account of the isle of, 238 Phillips, Mr., on the rapid decay of the Yorkshire coast, 266 Phlcgrroan fields, volcanos of, see woodcut No. 12, 336 Physical Geography, proofs of former changes in, 125 Physico-theological systems ridiculed by the Italians, 41 Pichinco volcano, 315 Pietra Mala, escape of inflammable gas at, 1.4 Pignataro, on the earthquake of Calabria in 1783, 413 Pitch Lake of Trinidad, Dr. Nugent 011 tl1e, 218 Pitea, gain of land at, in the Gulf of Bothnia, 228 Pius VII., edict against Galileo and the Copernican system, repealed by, 60 Plants, fossil, of the coal strat!ll 100 |
