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Show 508 INDEX. Suffolk, retreat of the sea on tho coast of, 271 Sullivan's lslanu, land carrie1l away by the sea at, 291 Sulphur Island, emits vn}lOttr, 318 Sumatra, linear direction of the volcanos in, 319 Sumbawa: volcanic en1ption in the island of, 1815, 403 Sundcrbnnd3, parts of the delta of the Ganges, 2-11 Sunderland, Professor Sedgwick on the magnesian limestone of, 205 Sussex, remarks on the weald formation of, 130 -- its coast. constantly the }ll"CY of the sea, 279 Swanage Bay, excavated by the sea, 280 Swatch of no ground, description of, 242 -- its size and depth, 242 Sweden shells of ex1st.ing Sllecies found ~t great heights in, 230 -- free from eartl1quakes, 232 Symes, on pctrol~um springs of the Bur-man empu·e, 218 Syrin, gain of land on its coasts, 308 -- earthquakes in, 321 -- and Sicily, earthquakes alternately in, 322 TADULAR view of the British strata, hy Smith, 1790, 70 Tacitus on emption of Vesuvius in 79,331 Tangaran river, its channel stopped np by landslips, 444 Tagliamenta, delta of the, 23G -- conglomernto forming by the, 237 Tampico, sedim~nt transp?rteu ~y, 310 Taormina, relahvc age of the lunestone of, 126 Targioni on the ~eology of Tuscany, 49 -- on the origm of valleys, 49 -- on the fossil elephants of Italy, 49 -- found no difleronce in the deposits of hot anu cold springs, 201 Tay, encroachment of the sra. in its estuary, 264 . . . Taylor, Mr. John, on the ad of mmmg m EnglauJ, 55 Taylor, M1·. R. C., on waste of Cromer Cliffs, 2G9 -- on gain of lanu on coast of Norfolk, 270 -- on the rise of the tides at Lowestoff, 272 Temperature, Raspe on the former high, of Europe, 52 -- of Adriahc, Fortis on, 53 -- of Meditenanean higher than that of sea without the Straits of Gibraltar, G3 Temperature, great changes in, 103 -- difi'crcncc of, in places in the same latitudes, lOG -- causes of change in, 112 -- causes rcc;tuircd to effect a general change m, 115 Tcmruk, violent earthquakes frequent round, 321 Tencriffc, its 11cak an active solfatara, 380 -- volcanic eruptions of, 380 -- lateral eruptions of, in 1706, 443 Tcrni, limestone forming uear, 206 Terram1ova, great suhsidence nt'ar, 411 shift or fault in the Tower of, see woodcut No. 20, 417 great lanclslips t;ear, ~24 Tertiary marls, thou tlucknoss ncar Parma, 237 Tertiary strata, remarl>s on the deposition of the, 150 Testa on shells common to Mediterranean and equinoctial seas, 53 Testa and Fortis, letters of~ on fossil fhh of Monte Bolen., 53 Texel, waste of the islands at its mouth, 288 Teyda, peak of, a counterpart of Barren Island, 390 Thames, gain and loss of land in its estuary, 275 -- tide in its estuary longer in flowing uown than up, 304 Thanct, Isle of, loss of land iu, 276 -- rate of encroachment in the, 27G Thompson, Dr., on siliceous incrustations near Monte Vico, 214 Thraco always subject to earthquakes, 323 Thucydides, his account of the early eruptions of Etna., 364 Thuringcrwald, Professor Sedgwick on the strata of, 133 Tibur, growth of its delta accelerateu by carbonate of lime, 207 Tides, height of, in the Bay of Bengal, 242 -- their destroying and transporting power, 256 -- height to which they 1·ise, 257 -- effect of winds on the, 257 -- in the Atlantic ancl Pacific, 293 -- in the Caribbean Sea, 293 Tifl.is, nume1·ous earthquakes in modem times.at, 321 Tigris and Euphrates, their union a modern event, 252 -- Pliny's rema1·k on the rapiu gain of lanu at its mouth, 2!)1 Tignaux, Tower of, in the uelta of the Rhone, 233 INDEX. 509 Time, effects of prepossessions in regard to the duration of past, 76 -- every error as to quantity of fatal __ to sound views in geology, fs COnse'l~lencc of unuerrating the quanhty_of past, SO -- great p~r10ds required to explain . . formation of secondary strata 87 T1voh, floou at, 196 ' Toledo, Signor, ou the elevation of the coast of the Bay of Ba.ioo, 45 7 Tomboro, volcano, great cruptiou from in 1815, 404 -- town of, submeroocd 40j Torre dol Greco, ~vcrfi~,~eu by lava, 358 -- to~n of, agam bmlt on its ancient Slte, 358 -- fertility of the country around 358 -- columnar lavas of Vesuvius sc~u at 345 ' Torre del An~unziata., columnar lava of V eSUVlUS seen at 3 l5 Torrents, action of; in ,;idening valleys 170 . , ;r:oru~, overwhelmed by tho sea, 289 lrad1hon, of tho submersion of the Lionnessc, 283 -- of s-reat losses oflandin Pcmbrokeshlrc, &c., 283 -- of the destruction of the southwestern part of Brittany 284 Travertin, for~ed by the Elsa,' 201 -- of San V1gnonc cut off by the river Orcin, see diagram No. 4, 202 -- of Iluugary, 2l1 -- of Sun :Filippo, 203 -- n foot of, formed in every four mont~1s at San :Filippo, 204 sphcro1dal structure of~ 204 comparison between, auu the Engli~ l~ magnesian limestone, 205 -- oohhc, recent formation of, in Lancerote, 384 ~l'rczza, travertin formed by the spray of the sea on the rocks of, 38 4 Trinidad, subsidence in, and land replacetl by a small pitch luke, 218 -- violently shaken by earthquakes 437 ' Troil on the columnar basalt of Ilcclo. 58 Truncateu volcanic cones, 392 ' 'l\mguragua volcano, 315 -- great mud eruption from, 410 Tunza river, its course changed by earth-quake, 401 Tuscan geologists opposcu to diluvial theory, 42 Tuscany, ~tt·n.o on the geology of, 28 -- Targ10m on the geology of, 49 -- calcareous springs of, 201 Tyre now far inland, 308 Tyrol, Dolomieu on tho, GO Umn~vAr.u, 1\f. Brongniart on the fossil shells of~ 230 Ullo~, his dilnvial theory, 441 Unma, L_akc, marble ueposited from sprmgs ncar, 211 --. its size, &c., 3~1 Un~Vl)rsal formations of \Verner, f'>7 Umversal ocean, of Leibnitz 40 -- ad,>pted by Buffon a:1u Do Luc, 40 -- caw~es which leu Vallisneri to believe in, 41 uisprovetl by organic remai n 91 U nalaschka, new island thrown up near 409 ' Uniformity of N aturc 85 105 lGl 311 337 ' ) ' ' ' -- Pla.yfair, on the, SG --. Dr_. Paley's rc1~arks on the, 159 U mfon!uty of ~olcamc operations in Italy lll aliClCllt and moucm timoH 337 ' -- of the action of earthquakes, 4GO VAL~· AnNo, organic remains of the, 152 Val dl N oto, Dolomieu ou the strata of the, 60 -- submarine lavas of the 325 Valecillo, 'Yater ejected throt;gh fissures durmg eartht1uakes in, 407 Vale of Gosau, P~ofcssor Sedgwick and Mr .. Murcl11son on the tertiary de- , posits of tho, 136 Valle uas. 1~urn~s, hot srrings of the, 213 Valley del Bove, lava. of 1819poured into tht-, 318 Valley of Calanna, lava of 1819 poured over th~ h~ad of the, 368 Valleys, Targ10m on the origin of, 4!) -- De Luc's theory ofthe excavation of, 70 -- Hutton's theory of tho excavation of, 70 -- excavation of, in Central France 17G ' -- matter trnnsporteu by rivers almost all subtractctl from 249 -- the excavation of, greatly assistetl . b~ earthquakes, 431 Valhsnen on the origin of springs, 41 -- dr~w first sketch of marine depo· stts of ltaly, 41 -- on. the_da~er _of· co~necting theones m physical sc1ence with the sacre!l writings, 41 -- contenus against St. Jerome and others as to tho origin of spriunos 41 ° ' -- universal ocean of, 41 -- contends against \Voodwaru's di. luvial theory, 42 |