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Show 506 INDEX. Sleswick waste of the coast of, 28~ the S. Lio, ~n Etua, great fissures m plain of, 364 f 1692 Soriano chango of relative level at, 416 __ l~velled to the ground by earth· quakes in 1783, 425 -- landslips near, see woodcut No. 26,425 Sloane, Sir Ila?H, on earthquake o in Jamaica, 446 S. Lucido, torrents of mwl caused by eal'thquake near, 427 . S t on the effect of wmds on the mea o:~rface of water, 257 . Smith, agreement of his system Wlth Werner's, 58 B 'f -- his ' Tabular view of the n IS 11 strata,' 1790, 70 -- his Map of Englan<l, 70 -- priority of his anangemcnt, ? 1 1 . -- adopted provincial names m us classifications, 71 ~<). Smyrna, volcanic country round, 3...,f th S n th Ca Jt., on the permanency o e I y 'level of the Mediterranean, 452 -- on tho height of Etna, 36.1 the del1th of the Mediterranean -- o~pposite the mouth of the Rhone, 234 M d't -- on the temperature of tho e I er-ranean (note), 53 . d Snow, be t.g ht of perpetual m the A.n es, 122 tua1 height of m· ,r... I.l ma1 a ya -- p~~~ntai~s, 122 Sodom, catastrophe of mentioned by Hooke, 34 , So lander on basalt of Hecla, o8 Soldani, theory of, .171:!0, fl2 f M di- -- on microscopiC testacea o e terranean, 52 t ~- alternation of marin~ andfreshw.a ~J beds of Paris basm, first nohce Solent, blts 5~hanne1 becoming broader, 280 . 'd. 't Solfatara, lake of the, carbomc aci m 1 s waters, 207 h If-extinguished volcano, see -- a woodcut No. 12, P· ~3 6, 330 -- tradition of an eruption from the, 333 . 't -- effects of the exhalations on I s structure, 346 b the temple of Serapis probab~y su f -- merged during the eruption o the 456 f Atl f Solon on s~bmersion oflslando an lS, 10 Somersetsbire, landb gam· fedl\ien~ i2n8 33 45 S great num er o I ' Soormbmonan, e, B uInPo n' s ' Declaration , made to the college of the; 48 . Sorea, volcanic eruption in the Island of, 445 Soriano, great fissures near' 416 South Carolina, earthquake of, 18~ 1, 407 South Downs, waste of the plastic clay on the, 279 South Sea Islands, proportiol!' of ferns to phanerogamic J?lants. m, 123 . S ada, his theory of manne rema.ms, p 1737 42 Spain, earthquakes in the southern part of, 323 't of Spallanzani, on analogy of depos~ s ancient and modern seas, 5 Spanish lake, 19~ b Species, re-creation of alluded to y Seneca, 17 t' f Spheroidal structure of the traver m o San Filippo, 204 __ travertin of Tivoli, 208 Spina, ancient city in the delta of the Po, 236 . . Spitz bergen, animals inhabiting, 98 __ glaciers of, 109 . . Springs, Vallisneri on the ?rigm of, 41 d -- matter introduced mto lakes an seas by, 90 __ transpor~ing p~wer ~f, 198 __ mineral mgredients m, ~ 98 . -- mineral, most abundant m volc:uuc regions, 199 th -- temperature of, altered by ear • quakes, 199 . . -- Michell, on the ongm of minera1 ' __ g!~:raphical distribution of, 200 k -- calcareous, rise through all roc formations, 200 . -- depositing sulphate of magnesia, 204 c . d -- calcareous between the asplan an Black Seas, 211 __ ferruginous, 214 __ brine, 215 rth k -- waters of, affected by ea qua es in Calabria, 423 Spontaneous ~enera~ion, theory of, 26 S urn Point, Its rapid decay, ~66 p ·n 'n time b.ecome an Island, 267 -Sta-biroW, I .obI jects preserve d l· n th e buried city of, 358 b the St. Andrew's, land swept away y sea, 265 Start Island, separated from Sanda by the sea, 263 . Staunton, Sir George, on the ~uanhty of sediment in the Yellow nver, .246 -- his remarks on the time reqmred to fill up the Yellow sea, 246 - INDEX. 507 St. Domin~o, subsidence of the coast of, durmg earthquake, 440 Steele, on Burnet's theory, 38 Stelluti, his theory of organic remains, 27 Steno, his theory, 1669, 27 -- fossil shells compared with their recent analogues by, 28 -- dissected a shark to compare with fossil, 28 -- his awe of popular prejudices, 28 Stephenson, his account of the eruption of 1783 in Iceland, 372 SteJlpes, Russian, geology of tho, 320 St. Eubal's in Portugal, engulphed by earthquake, 439 Stevenson, Mr.,his account of drift-stones thrown on the Bell Rock, 265 -- on the depth of the German ocean, 276 -- on tho bed of the German ocean, 306 Stewart, Dugald, on the E!:)yptian theories of eternal successwn, 156 -- on the uniformity of animal instinct, 161 St. Helena, height of the ti<les at, 257 St. Jago greatfy injured by earthquake in 1822, 401 St. Maura, houses and men destroyed by earthquakes in 1783, in the island of, 414 St. Michael, siliceous springs of, 212 St. Michael's Mount, tradition of inroads of the sea at, 283 Stonesfield, opossum of, I 03 Storm of November, 1824, effeot of, 279, 280, 282 Stotu· and Avon, cliffs at their mouth constantly undermine<!, 280 Strabo, his theory of elevation by earthquakes, 18 -- his <lescription of the delta of the Rhone, 232 -- his remark on Homer's account of Pharos, 239 -- on a volcanic eruption in Messina, 323 -- his account of the formation of the Isle of Proci<la, 327 -- on an eruption in Ischia, 327 Straits of Dover, Desmarest on the formation of, 277 -- their depth, 277 Straits of Staveren formed in the 13th century, 277, 288 Straits of Gibraltar, description of the currents in the, 296 -- supposed under-current in the, 298 - are becoming wider, 299 Straits ofPauxis, tide of the Amazon still sensible at the, 291 StralsunJ, 229 Strata formed by currents in the Mediterranean, 308 Stratification of now deposits in deltas, 253 -- of debri1:1 deposited by currents, see <liagram No. 6, 254 -- of submarine volcanic products, 390 Strato, hypothesis of, 18 Stromboli, its appearance during Calabrian earthquakes, 430 St. Sebastian, overflowed by volcanic alluvions, 349 St. Vincent's, volcanic eruption in, 407 Subapennine shell~, arranged in families as in the bed of the Adriatic, 47 -- proportion of living species among the, 94 -- better known than those existing in seas of northern regions, 151 Subapenuine strata, mammiferous remains of the, 151 -- Baldassari on the, 51 -- Odoardi on the distinct age of the, 51 -- early theories of Italian geologists, concerninS', 84 -- their relahve age, see woodcut No.1, 136 Submarine forests, in the eatuaries of the Tay and Forth, 265 -- remarks on their origin, 270 -- of Lancashire, 283 Submarine lavas, compactness of, I '28 Submarine volcanic rocks, character of, 390 Submarine volcanos, 391 Subsidence in the Island of Sumbawa, 405 -- of the channel of the Indus, dur-ing earthquake, 1819, 406 -- of the mountain Silla, 407 -- in the Caraccas, 1790, 411 -- in Sicily, 1790, 411 -- of the quay at Messina during the earthquake of 1783, 416 -- of houses il1 Catanzaro, without being injured, 426 -- of the quay at Lisbon, 438 -- of the coast of St. Domingo, 440 -- of the coast of Sicily, 445 --in Jamaica, 446 -- numerous proofs of, in the Bay of Bairo, buildings not destroyed, 454 -- and elevation, proportion of, 476 -- greater than elevation, 477 Subterranean volcanic rocks, 397 Successive development of organic life, 144 Suffolk, c.liffs undermined, 271 |
