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Show 504 INDEX. Rocks, specific graviiy of, compared to water, 172 -- effect of carbonic acid on, 217 Roman road between Aix and Nismcs, 233 -- roads under water in the Bay of Baioo, 454 Rome principally built of travcrtin, 208 Romney marsh, land gained from the sE'a, 278 Ronchi, old Roman brid~c of, found bmiecl in fluviatile stlt, 237 Ross, Captain, on icebergs in Daffin's Bay, 109 Restock, 229 Rotaro, Monte, of recent aspect, 327 --structure of, 328 Rother, river, ancient vessel found in its old bed, 278 Runn, river in Bombay, subsidence of its channel, 406 Rye formerly destroyed by the sea, 278 SABINE, Captain, on tho distance to which the waters of the Amazon discolour the sea, 292 -- on tho velocity of the current crossing the mouth of the Amazon, 309 Sabrina, island of, 409 Saco, flood on the river, 193 Salamanca, university of, 69 Salt, remarks on its deposition in the Mediterranean, 297 Salt springs, in Sicily, 215 --in Cheshire, 215 --in Auvergne, 215 -- in Asia, ~2 Samothracian deluge, 320 Sand, estuaries blocked tlp hy blown, 269 -- cones of, thrown up during Calabrian earthquake, 428 -- blown, estuaries silted up 11y in Hampshire, &c., 300 Sanda, its promontory cut off by the sea, 263 Sandown Bay, exravatcd by the sea, 280 Sands ofthe Libyan desert, 301 Sandstone, old red, scales of fish found in the, 148 Sandwich laud, perpetual snow in, down to the level of the sea beach, llO ~an Filippo, travertin formed by the waters ofthe baths of, 203 --medallions formed by the travertin at, 204 Santa Maura, earthquake i·n, 403 Santorin, geological structure of, 385 - chart and section of, sec woodcut No. 15,385 Santoriu, new islands in the gulf of, 386 -- depth of the sea ncar, 386 San V ignone, travertin of, 202 Saracens, learning of the, 21 Saussure on the Alps and Jura, 5-1 Saxony, errors of Werner in the geology of, 57 --Werner on the basalts of, 58 Scandinavia reprcscuteclu.s an island by the apcicuts, 227 Scarpellini, Professor at Rome, 69 Scheuchzer, account of his theory, 1708, 40 -- on the remodelling of the earth at the deluge, 40 Scheveningcn, wn~>te ofthe cli~s of, 2~7 Scilla on the nature of orgamc remams, 1G70, 29 --fall of the cliffs from the rock of, 429 -- irruption of the sea on the rock of, 430 Scoresby, Captain, on the Gulf stream, 108 -- on the quantity of ice which floats below surface, 111 ---. on the formation of field icc, 11!) Scotland, highest mountains not covered by perpetual snow in, 111 --great floods iu, August, 1829, 174 -- waste of tho East coast of, 2G3 -- slight earthquakes felt in, 325 --great thicktwss of alluvions in, 433 Scrope, Mr. G. P., on the excavation of valleys, 171 --his account of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1822, 340 -- l1is account of the formation of the pisolitic globules at Pompeii, 351 -- on the eruption of Etnu. in 1811, 367 -- his account of the advance of tho Java of 1819, 3GB --on the cause of the convexity of the plain of Malpais, 377 -- on Monte Somma, 394 --on the columnar basalts of Vesu-vius, 346 --on the eruption of the Solfatara, 346 Scylax, Canopus an island in the time pf, 238 Sea does not change its level but lanrl, 18 -- said to diminish by Omar the Arabian, 21 -- encroachment of noticed by Ray, 36 --· Moro on the manner in which it • acquired its saltness, 43 --its iufluencc on climate, 111 --immense quantity of calcareous mat-ter conveyed to the, 211 INDEX. 505 Sea, its enct·oacllment on tho Shetland isles, 259 - -- on the E. coast of Scotland, 263 .,__ - on the E. coast of England 266 ' -- -- on the S. coast of England, 278 ---on the W. coast of Englund, 283 -- great rise of at Smnbawn. duriug eruption, 404 -- earthquake of Lisbon felt at, 439 --great rise of, during Lisbon earth-qun. ke,439 --cause of its retreat during earthquakes, 471 Seaford, its shingle Lank swept away and town inundated, 279 Sea-ports, changes of level best seen in, 416 Secondary strata, Moro on the formation of; 43 ---- time required for the formation of, 87 -- -- inference as to climate from the fo ssils of the, I 00 ----organic remains of the, 150 Sedgwick, Profc::;sor, on the tertiary deposits of the Salzburg Alps, 136 -- -- on the Caithness schists, 148 ---- on the Magnesian limestone, 205 Sediment, its distribution in the Adriatic, 237 --in river water, 246 --quantity of, in the Yellow river, 246 -- Rennell on the quantity of, in the Ganges, 247 -- of the Ganges compared to the lavas of Etna, 248 Seminara, new lake formed by earth-quake near, 422 --lantlslips near, 426 Sena, wood lapitlifiecl hy thP, 201 Seneca on a future deluge, 17 Serapis, temple of (see frontispiece), 449 ---- ground plan of the environs of the, sec woodcut No. 30, 450 ---- Carelli, Signor, on the, 453 -- -- perforation of the columns of the, 453 ----date of its re-elevation, 456 Severn, rise of the tides in the estuary of the, 257 -- gain of laud on the borders of its estuary, 283 Shakspeare, cited, 149 Hhu.k!li>eare's cliff decays rapidly, 276 Shales, bituminous, 210 Sheppcy, isle of, organic remains of the, 153 -- --rapid decay of the cliffs, 275 Sheningham, chalk clifi's undermined by the sea, 2G8 --rate of encroachment at. 268 Shetland Islands, action of the sea on the, 259 ---- rock masses drifted by the sea in, 259 ---- effect of lightning on rocks in the, 2GO ---- pas sage forced by the sea in the, 2G1 ---- action of the sea on the granitic rocks of, sec woodcuts No. 9 and 10, 262 Siberia, Pallas on the mountains of, 54 -- Pallas on the fossil bones ot~ 54 -- Rhinoceros found by Pallas entire in the frozen soil ot; 54 Siberian Mammoths, 97 Sicily, title deeds of monasteries in, refer to destruction of world, 24 -- organic remains of existing species found in, 94 -- change of submarine lavas of, into amygdaloids, 128 -- earthquake of, 1790, 411 -- great subsidence in, 411 -- sulphur, petroleum, &c. emitted by fissures in, 411 -- earthquakes in, 1693, 445 -- 100,000 people killed in, 445 -- and Syria, alternations of earth-quakes in, 322 Sidon, its ancient site two miles from the sea, 308 Sicnese territory, Baldassari on the grouping of organic remains in the marls of the, 47 Sienna, fossil shells of, 94 Silex, deposited by the Geysers of Iccland, 213 -- deposited by the hot.springs of Ischia, 214 -- deposited byspringsinSt.Michacl's, 213 -- piles of Trajan's bridge converted into, 214 Siliceous springs of the Azores, 212 Silicification of Plants in St. Michael, 213 Silla, subsidence of the mountain, 407 Simeto, lava excavated by the, see dia-gram No.3, 178 Sindree, subsidence of the forta.nd villag~ of, houses not thrown down, 406 Skapta, river, its channel filled by lava, 372 Skaptar Jokul, eruption of in 1783, 372 -- volume of the lava-current of~ 3.7a |