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510 INDEX. Vallisneri, on primary rocks, 62 Valparaiso, soundings in the harbour of, changed by earthquake in 1822, 402 -- country round permanently ele­vated in 1822, to the height of three feet, 402 -- houses not thrown down when its coast was elevated, 455 Van Diemen's Land, climate of, lll Veins, mineral, remarks on their forma~ tion, 423 Vera Cruz destroyed by earthquake, 443 Vernon, Rev. W. V., his memoir on bones of the mammoth, bison, &c., in Yorkshire, 96 Vernon, Rev. C.V.,fossil satll'ian,&c., found in mountain limestone by, 129 V crona, petrifactions found at, 23 -- Spada on the fossils of, 42 -- Arduino on the mountains of, 49 Veronese, Majoli's remarks on the shells of the, 26 Vertebrated animals in the oldest strata, 147 Vesta, temple of, 197 Vesuvius, excavation of volcanic tuff on the side of, in 1822, 176 - · - early history of, 330 -- recognised as a volcano by Strabo, 330 -- account of the great eruption, A.D. 79, 330 -- first recorded emption of lava by, 333 -- eruption of 1631, 338 -- eruption of 1822, 340 -- depth of the crate1· of, 34 0 -- structure of the cone of, 341 -- dikes in, how formed, 342 -- prouahlfl section of, see woodcut No. 13,344 -- mineralogical description of the lavas of, 345 -- columnar lavas of, 345 -- account of the minerals found in the lavas of, 347 Vetch, Capt., on the recent eruption of Jorullo, 379 Vevey, de,rth of lake of Geneva near, 222 Vicentin, Dolomieu on the, 60 -- Arduino on the submarine lavas of the, 85 Vicenza, Arduino on the mountains of, 49 Vienna, gypseous springs of, 212 Villa Franca, disintegration of primary boulders by carbonic acid at, 217 Villages, forty destroyed by one emption in Java in 1772, 436 Villarica volcano in perpetual activity, 315 Virgil, cited, 15 7 Viterbo, travertin deposited at the Bull· cami of, 206 Vito Amici on Mora's system, 46 Vivarais, Guettard on the basalts of the, 1775, 58 -- Faujas on the basaltic lavas of the, 1779, 58 Vivenzio, his account of the earthquake of Calabria in 1783, 412 on the filling up of valleys by land­slips, 427 on the formation of lakes by land­slips, 427 Volcanic vents, 1·emarks on their position, 313 Volcanic regions, their geographical boundaries, 314 -- of the Andes, 314 -- extending from the Aleutian isles to the Moluccas, 317 -- of the old world, 318 Volcanic cones, truncation of, 392 Volcanic products, mineral composition of, 395 Volcanic rocks, subterranean, 397 Volcanic eruption, in Sumbawa, 1815,403 -- in St. Vincent, 1812, 407 -- distance to which its explosions were heard, 407 Volcanic eruptions, causes of, 467 -- average number of per annum, 397 Volcanos, safety valves according to Strabo, 19 -- duration of past time proved by extinct, 88 -- extinct ones not to be included with those in activity, 325 -- d~stroying and renovating agency of the Campanian, 359 -- why most are near the sea, 468 Volcanos of Auvergne, Desmarest on their relative ages, 59 -- Montlosier on the, 1788, 60 Voltaire, his dislike of cultivators of geo­logy, 65 -- bad faith of, on geological subjects, 66 -- his remarks on the systems of Burnet and Woodward, 66 -- on the discovery of fossil bones; near Etampes, 66 Volterra, remarks of Mattani on the fossil shells of, 42 Von Buch, shells of existing species in Sweden found at g1·eat heights by, 230 -- his theory of the gradual rising of the shores of the Baltic, 231 -- his account of the volcanic eruption in Lancerote, 381 -- his theory of elevation craters con· sidered, 386 INDEX. 511 Von Buch, on the new island thrown up near Kamtschatka, 408 Vulcanists, persecution of, in England 67 -- and Neptunists, factions of~ 60' WAn, rivl'r, 286 Wate~, action of running, 168 -- 1ts power on freezing, 169 -- solvent power of, 169 -- excavating power of 170 -- transp01·ting power ~f, 171 veloc1ty of running, greatest at sur· face and least at bottom 172 - its power in moving sto:1es 17 4 Wall~rius, theory of, 53 ' Walhch, Dr., fossils in Ava discovered by,33 Walton N aze, cliffs annually undermined 275 . ' Warp of the Humber, stratification of . the, 254 Warton, his eulogy on Burnet, 38 W cald clay, on the formation of the, 134 Webster, Dr., on the hot springs of Fur-nas, 213 Webster, Mr., on the decay of the chalk cliffs of Sussex, 278 Weddell, Captain, high latitude reached by in the antarctic circle, 109 Werner, Professor of mineralogy at Frey· berg, 1775, 55 -- geognosy of, 55 -- apphed geology to tho art of min-ing, 55 --excursive character ofhis lectures 56 --hi~ sweeping generalizations, 5S --ftllth of his scholars in his doctrines 56 ' --his views eventually prejudicial to the progress of geology, 56 -- universal formations of, 56 --his errors in the geology of his own country, 57 -- on the granite of the Hartz moun-tains, 57 --principal merit of the system of, 57 --his erroueous theory of basalt, 58 --his observations on basalt confined to Saxony and Hesse, 58 · -- taught that there were no volcanos in the primeval ages, 58 -- technical terms of, 71 W ernerian errors, why adopted in Eng­land, 60 West Indian isles, activevolcauos in, 317 West Indies, Hooke on an earthquake in the, 34 -- earthquake of Lisbon felt in, 439 Weymouth, height to which the tide rises at, 257 Whirlwinds violent during the eruption of Tomboro in Sumbawa, 404 Whiston, his Theory of the Earth, 38 --proposed a new interpretation of Genesis, 39 -- his theory pancgyrised by Locke, 39 --. attacked ~nd refuted by Keill, 39 White Mountams, lan<l1:1lips in the 193 Whitehurst, theory of, 1778, 53 ' -- on the rocks of Derbyshire, 53 -- on the depth to which the quay at Lisbon subsided, 439 Williams, his Natural History of the mi. neral kinguom, 1789, 67 -- misrepresents Hutton's theory 67 W~nchelsea destroyed by the sea, 278 Wmds, trade, 118 Winds, currents caused by the 257 -- sand drifted by the, 300 ' Wismar, 229 Wollaston, Dr., on the water of the Medi­terranean, 296 Wood, dicotyledonous, in the coal strata of Northumberland, 147 ---- in the gra'lftvacke of Cork 147 •. ' Woodward, his theory of the Earth 169 5 36 ' ' -- all geological phenomena referred by, to the creation and deluge, 37 --Ray's remarks on, 37 -- his theory ridiculed by Hutchinson 40 ' --Voltaire's remarks on the theory of 66 ' W oodwardian theory, 80 -- Vallisueris's remarks on the, 41 XANl'Hus, the Lydian, his theory, 18 YARMOUTH, sea does not encroach at 269 -- large estuary silted up, 27 0 ' -- rise of the tide at, 270 Yellow nver, Sir G. Staunton on the quantity of sediment in the 246 Yorkshire, bones of the mammoth found in, 96 --Pennant's account of the invasion of its coasts by the sea, 266 -- its coast continually wasting, 266 ZANTE, earthquakes in the island of in 1783, 414 Zingst, peninsula converted into an island 295 ' Znyder Zee, account of its formation, 288 London: Printed by w. CLOWIII, Stamfo~d·Street.