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Beautiful, idea of the, correlated to Na-Burkesville oil region, 289.

ture, 374.

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Beginning of terrestrial order, 397.
Behring's Straits crossed by man, 362.
66 once an isthmus, 369.
Beliefs, popular, in general catastrophes,
380.

Beneficence in glacier action, 227, 336.

Burlington, Iowa, geology of, 129.
Burning of the prairies, 266, 271.

Cabot's Head, 124.

Cæsar on cave-dwellers, 363.
Cage in mining, 139.

Cahawba, Alabama, reptiles of, 190.

Beneficence in continental submerg-Calamary, 116.

ences, 232.

Calamites, 136.

Beneficence in arrangement of springs, Calcareo-fragmental rocks, 136.
233, 234, 335.
Calcareous rocks, 58, 133.

Beneficence in terrestrial disruptions, Calciferous sandstone, 82.

333.
Beneficence in disclosure of mineral val- Calymene senaria, 80.
ues, 333.

California, no glacial drift in, 335.

Beneficence in Nature correlated to man,
374.

Beneficence and wisdom in coal-making,

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Cambrian rocks, 67.

Camel formerly in America, 210.
Cane and prairies, 266.

Cannel coal a source of petroleum, 281,

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group, 131, 439.

Caudal elongation, 324.

Causation in endless series, 395.
Cave-Bear, 354.
Cave-Bear Epoch, 353.
Cave-Hyena, 354.
Cave-Lion, 354.

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Caves with human remains, 352.
Cedar in New Jersey swamps, 257.
on shores of great lakes, 259.
Celts on secular revolutions, 386.
Cemeteries of extinct animals, 205, 206,
340.

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Centemodon, 176.

Centre of earth still molten, 50.
Central heat, doctrine of, 433.

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references on, 435.

Cephalaspis, 99.

Cephalopods, 110, 316.

Cereals introduced from the East, 362.
Chaldeans on the order of Nature, 382.
Chambered shells, 114.

Chambers in mining, 143.

British Museum, 186.

Brorsen's comet, 418.

Bronze Age, 353.

Buckland, Dr., 182, 321.

Champlain Lake, geology of, 225, 230.

epoch, 239.

Chance precluded, 334.

Brown stone of Connecticut Valley, 180. Changes in the human period, 369.

Buffalo, N. Y., geology of, 126, 165.

Bulletins of creation, 319.

Burial customs of primeval man, 366.
Buried vegetable germs, 250.

Chapel," Pictured Rocks," 91.
Chapel Falls, 92.

Chatham, Ontario, 241.

Chattanooga, Tenn., 343.

Chemical geology, 58.

Chemical reactions on primeval earth, 59. Conglomerate of coal-measures, 153.
Chemung rocks, position of, 128.
a reservoir of brine, 301,

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66 as an oil-reservoir, 293.
Chicago, geology of, 125, 264.

46 artesian wells, 280.

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oil-stained church, 280.
tunnel, 440.

Chili, changes on the coast of, 23.
Chimney Rock, Mackinac Island, 248.
Christian fathers on catastrophes, 382.
Christianity bound to appropriate sci-
ence, 47.

Christol on primeval man, 355.
Christy on primeval man, 358.
Cicero on secular destructions, 386.
Cimoliosaurus, 190.

Cincinnati, geology of, 82, 162, 340.

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66 paved with boulders, 221.
group as a source of oil, 289.
Cisterns, subterranean, 232, 233.
Class modifications, 103.
Class-groups, succession of, 316.
Classification of strata, 437.
Clay's monument, 125.
Clepsysaurus Pennsylvanicus, 178.
Cleveland, geology of, 129, 165.
Cliff limestone, 127.

Climate of Mesozoic times, 197.

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modified by lake influence, 225.
of Northern Michigan, 226.

Climatic changes since man's advent, 361.
Clothing of primeval man, 365.
Club-mosses, fossil, 148, 156.
Clymenia, character of, 119.
Clymenia Sedgwicki, 116.
Coal, how preserved, 160, 310.

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280.

Coal-beds, 143, 156.

"making, process of, 153, 310.
measures, location of, 136, 155.

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section of, 139.


thickness of, 155.

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305.
Conglomerates, how formed, 133, 153.
Connecticut River sandstone and tracks,
180.

Constitution of sun and stars, 425.
Contemporaneousness of man and ex-
tinct animals, 355.

Continent, American, germ of, 73, 74, 309.

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marked out, 95, 310.
section across, 95.
hydrography of, 96.
at end of Silurian,

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sun, 408,
276, Cope, E. D., on reptiles, 183, 190.
Copper, Geology of, 84.

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as a boulder, 220.

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how made accessible, 334.
range, Lake Superior, 85.

Coral animals, succession of, 326.

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as a source of brine, 296, Cordier on the temperature of the earth,

Coal mine, excursion in, 139.

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explosion in, 144.

"mining, 143.

"oil, 282.

"period, scenery of, 149, 150.

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pipes, 158.

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plants, 147.

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uses of, 151.

Cobble-stones, 222.

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Cornwall copper mines, 439.

Cosmical machine, 394.

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Cosmogonies, ancient, 382, 383.
Creation in Aztec mythology, 387.
Creator. See "Deity" and "God."

Colorado River, denudation by, 345, 346, Cretaceous age and reptiles, 189.

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ces, 133.

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Domestic animals of primeval times, 364

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species from the East, 362.
Dominant ideas in Nature, 318.
Drainage features determined, 235.
Drift contains vegetable germs, 270.
Dromatherium, 189.

Druidical remains, 352.

Druids on secular revolutions, 386.
Drummond's Island, 124.

Dryness as a cause of prairies, 266.
Dubuque, Iowa, trilobites at, 81.
Duckenfeld mine, 439.

Dumfriesshire, reptiles in, 168.

Duncan, Dr., 168.

Duration of coal period, 155.
Durham coal mines, 439.
Durydorus serridens, 188.

Dwight, Dr. T., quoted, 252.

Dynasties, geologic, 164.

"Devonian plants, 129. Earth seen from Sirius, 406.

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Earthquakes, beneficence of, 333.
Echinoderms, 316.

Dawson, J.W., on Carboniferous reptiles, Egyptian mummies, wheat from, 261.
169.

Deane, Dr., on footprints, 168, 182, 183, 186.
Death of matter, 428.

Deductive reasoning in geology, 52, 66,
435, 436.

Deep mines, 439.

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Egyptians on secular revolutions, 383.
Elasmosaurus, 190.
Elephants in ice, 221.

Elevations closing Lower Silurian, 122.
Elevatory forces growing feebler, 401.
Elk, the extinct Irish, 354, 355, 360.
Embryonic stages, 324.

Emergence of the continent, 229.
Emigrations of man, 362.
Emmons, E., on Permian rocks, 171.
Empire of fishes, 164.

"reptiles, geography of, 195.
Empires, geologic, 164.
Enaliosaurs, position of, 168.
synthetic, 173.

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Encke's comet, 417, 419.
Encrinites, 107.

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Enniskillen, petroleum of, 276, 286, 289.
test well at, 290.
surface wells of, 292.
66. flowing oil well of, 443.
Enrollment of chambered shells, 119.
Eosaurus Acadianus, 170.
Eozoïc Time, 72.

Eozoon Canadense, 68, 435.
Eozoön in other countries, 71.
Epochs, ages, and periods, 133.
Epsom salts as a natural product, 297.
Equilibrium the end of motion, 392.
Ericsson on solar heat, 408.
Erie, Lake, geology of, 224.
Erosion on Mendocino coast, 31.

66 of American Continent, 347.

Eruptions, submarine, 34.
Esquimaux Stone-folk, 363.

Eternity of existing order improbable,
381.

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Fingal's Cave, 34.

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of Europe at man's advent, 361.

Finiteness of geologic periods, 370, 397. Georgian Bay, geology of, 225.

Finns, 363.

Fiords, origin of, 220.

Fire, the ordeal by, 28.

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agency of, in rock formation, 32.

66 the reign of, 49.

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known to primeval man, 365.
energies of, wasting, 398.

"-damp in mines, 145.
-weeds, 251, 260.

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Firmaments, 426, 427.
Fish-garpikes, 120.
earliest, 126.

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66 type unfolded, 317.
Fishes, empire of, 164.

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succession of, 326.

Fixed stars in motion, 392.

Florida once a coral reef, 201.

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growth of, 231.

66 Reef, 327.

Flowing oil wells, 284, 285.

Folds in the mountains, 310.
Food of primeval man, 365.

Footprints of Labyrinthodonts, 173.
in Connecticut Valley, 182.

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nithic, 185.

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Foraminifera, nature of, 69.
Forbes, E., on footprints, 182.
Force, forms of, 393.

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Forces struggling toward stagnation, 428.
Forest-growths alternating, 252.
Forests encroached upon by prairies, 268,
270.

Formations furnishing oil, 288.

Fossils, how and what they teach, 13.
Foster and Whitney on Pictured Rocks,
87.

Fracastoro, opinions of, 26.

Fragmental rocks, how formed, 133.
Freiburg mines, 439.

Friction in the heavens, 417.
Frog, position of, 167.
Frost, invasion of, 214.

Fruit in Northern Michigan, 226.
Fucoids at Lake Superior, 83.
Fundamental plan in animals, 100.
Fungidæ, 327.

Furrows, glacial, 215, 217.

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as a source of oil, 289. Illinois prairies, 265.

Hamites, characters of, 119.
Harrison on buried firs, 253.
Hatchets of flint, 356.

Hawkins, B. W., Restorations by, 192.
Hayden, F. V., on Mesozoic geology, 210.
Heat, central, doctrine of, 433.

agency of, in rock formation, 32.
dispensed by the sun, 408.

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solar, destined to be exhausted,411.
how sustained, 410.

amount of, 422.
developed by percussion, 410.

Heights of the lakes, 243.

Helderberg group, Lower, 125.

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Mountains, 125.

Helmholtz on cooling of the sun, 411.
"destiny of solar system,

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420.

Herpetarchy, 176.
Herpetoid birds, 184.

Herschel, Sir William, on nebular hypoth-
esis, 41.

Herschel, Sir William, on firmaments, 425.
Herzer, H., on fossil fishes, 127.
Heterocercal tails, 165, 326.
Higher level of the lakes, 241, 244.
Highland Rim, in Tennessee, 341, 342.
Hilgard, E. W., on Petite Anse, 306.
Hindoo cosmogony, 383.
Hitchcock, C. H., on Maine, 126.

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Dr. E., on footprints, 168, 182,

Hitchcock, Dr. E., on drift phenomena,

217.

Hohenberger mines, 439.

Hollow bones of reptiles, 185, 189.
Holmes, F. S., on human relics, 356.
Homocércal tails, 165, 326.
Hooker on insular floras, 369.
Hopkins, E. and W., on central heat, 435.
Horner on Gulf Stream soundings, 404.
Horse a native of America, 210.
Houghton, D., on Michigan geology, 82.
Hunt, T. S., as a chemical geologist, 58.
66 on petroleum, 289, 290.
66 "central heat, 433.

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Mountain, Missouri, 106.
Islands, upheaval of, 23.
Isle Royale, 84.

Ives, Lieutenant, on Colorado, 345.

Jews on secular catastrophes, 384.
Joachimsthal mine, 439.
Joggins, South, reptiles at, 169, 170.
Jupiter and world harmonies, 329.
retardation of, 419.
Jurassic Age, 176.

Kalpa in Hindoo cosmogony, 384.
Kansas salt-rocks, 305.

Keesville, Potsdam sandstone at, 77.
Kelly's Island, 165.

Kent's Hole with human remains, 355.
Kentucky, blue-grass region in, 82.
marble, 125.

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Hydrographic outlines of N. America, 96. Knox County, Ohio, gas well in, 283.

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