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portrait of, 137.

Millstone grit, how formed, 153.
Millstones in primeval times, 365.
Milwaukee, geology of, 125.
Mind in Nature, 16, 98, 104.
Mine, descent to, 139.

Mines, ancient, in Spain, 257.

66 depth of, 439.

Miners' Castle, Pictured Rocks, 86.

Mining and miners, 143, 146.

Mining implements, ancient, of Lake Su-
perior, 257.

Mining implements in Spain, 257.

Mining of timber in New Jersey, 257, 258.
Minnesota Mine, Michigan, 440.
Missionary Ridge, 342.

Mississippi River, geological relations
of, 96, 235.

Mississippi River, sediments of, 398.
Group, 136.

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in, 25.

Valley, effect of depression

Missouri River, origin of, 201.
Moa, 368.

Moisture as a cause of prairies, 266.

Mounds, burial, 260, 350.
Mountains to be leveled, 397.
Multiplication of similar parts, 323.
Murchison on gneiss, 58.

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gold regions, 335.
Museum of University of Michigan, 176.
"Yale College, 186.
British, 186.

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Wood's, 203.

Amherst, 186.

Naked reptiles, 167.

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Nantucket, change of level at, 22.
Nashville, Tennessee, situation of, 341.
66 geology of, 341.
Nature, interpretation of, 15.
mind in, 16.

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Nautilus, the Paper, 110.

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Pearly, 114.

Nautilus pompilius, 114.

Nebulæ, 425.

Nebular hypothesis, 41, 42.

Neptune and world-harmonies, 329.
Nescience in geologic theory, 434.
Nevada, salt-beds of, 295.

Newberry, J. S., on fishes, 127.

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"reptiles 170.

"fossil vegetation, 254.
"petroleum, 288, 291.
"Colorado River, 345.

New Brunswick, change of level in, 22.

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Jersey, change of level in, 22.

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New Red Sandstone, 168.

Newton on comets, 409.

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"resisting medium, 418..

Niagara limestone, 123.

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mass, 134.

as an oil rock, 280.

of Mesozoic Time, 201.
ancient gorge of, 220, 235.
a key to ancient geogra-

phy, 224.
Niagara Gorge, 243.

age of, 245.

Nilsson on primeval man, 363.
Noble Oil Well, 274.
Noquet, Bay de, 124.

North Carolina, change of level in, 22.
Nova Scotia, coal-measures of, 155.
Nucleus of the earth, shrinkage of, 199.

Occupations of primeval man, 363.

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salt rocks, 305.

Oil, something about, 273.
"excitement, 273.

"mistaken opinions about, 275.
"smellers, 275.

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"accumulation, conditions of, 287.
regions of United States, 292.
"springs, Ontario, see Enniskillen.
"wells, flowing, list of, 443..
Old fields, 252, 260.

"Red Sandstone, 131, 439.

Onondaga salt formation, 303.
Ontario, Lake, geology of, 225.

Oölitic reptiles, 188.

Opisthocœlian vertebræ, 188.
Orbitoides, nature of, 69.

Order of Nature temporary, 382.
Orders of animals, 103.

Ordinal groups, succession of, 316.

66 types, 324.

Oreodon Culbertsoni, 208.

Organic types, succession of, 315, 316.
Orient the birthplace of man, 362.
Oriskany sandstone, 126.
Ormoceras tenuifilum, 115.
Qrnaments in primeval times, 359.
Ornithichnites, 168, 182.

Orographic outlines of N. America, 96.
Orpheus on the Great Year, 383, 384.
Orthoceratites, 109, 115, 120, 316.
Oscillations of the land, 19.

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in United States, 22.

66 in ancient times, 152.

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use of, in coal-making, 161.
Ostracoid crustaceans, 318.
Outlet of lakes formerly obstructed, 242.
Ovid, quotation from, 39.

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Owen, D. D., on Potsdam sandstone, 79.
"Mesozoic geology, 210.
"Kentucky geology, 255.

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Petroleum, illusory ideas about, 275.
characters of, 280.

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in all formations, 281.
artificially produced, 281.
distilled from shale, 281.
causes of its flow, 284.

quantities of, discharged, 286.
prices of, 286.

accumulation, conditions of,

Petroleum regions in U. States, 288, 292.
Phascolotherium, 189.
Phoenix, fable of, 386.
Phyllotaxy, 328.

Physics, wonders of, 422.
Pictou, reptiles at, 169.

Pictured Rocks, Lake Superior, 85.
Pile-habitations, 352, 360, 364.

Piles of London Bridge, etc., 256, 257.
Pines succeeding hard-wood forests, 252.
Plan, see Method.

Plans of animal structure, 101, 175, 314.
Planets, genesis of, 44.

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appearing in new localities, 250.
Plato on catastrophes, 386.
Plesiosaurus, 178, 179, 318.
Plum-seed long preserved, 262.
Poisson on cooling of the earth, 403.
Polyps and coral reefs, 326, 327.
Polypterus, 320.

Popol Vuh of the Aztecs, 387.
Porcupine Mountains, 339.
Porites, 327.

Portage Lake, Lake Superior, 85.

Portland (Connecticut) quarries, 182.
Positivism in geologic theory, 434.

Pot-holes in ancient river-beds, 269.

Potsdam group, 76.

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Protozoa, 69, 316.

Prout, Dr. H. A., 208.

Providence in Nature, 333, 395.
Pterichthys, 99.

Pterodactyls or Pterosaurs, 168, 178.
Pterodactyl, haunts of the, 181.

66 footprints of, 182.
Pythagoras on catastrophes, 385, 390.

Quincy, Illinois, prairies of, 268.
Quincy mine, 440.
Quadrupeds, extinct, 202.

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order of advent of, 203.
cemeteries of, 204.

American, with primeval

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wearing down, 230.

Romans on catastrophes, 386.
Rominger, Dr. C., 176.
Rörerbühel mines, 439.

Rorison on precipitation of planets, 420.
Ruminants, 203.

Quadrupeds, European, with primeval Rush of passing events, 414.

man, 354.

Quantities of oil discharged, 286.
Quiches, National Book of the, 387.

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"world-harmonies, 329.

Sauropus primævus, 188.
Savoy Place and its piles, 257.
Scenes in a coal mine, 141.
Schmerling on primeval man, 355.
Schoolcraft on Pictured Rocks, 87.

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Siberian ice and elephants, 221.
Sibylline Books, 384.

Sigillaria, 158, 159.

Silurian rocks, 75.

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"organic types, 326.
"ideas repeated, 327.

Suckers of cephalopods, 114.

Sugar-Loaf, Mackinac Island, 247.
Sumnerville, Tennessee, geology of, 255.

Upper, rocks and fossils of, 124. Sun cooling off, 408.

Siphon in chambered shells, 119.

Sivatherium, 203.

Skovmose in Denmark, 253.

Smell of petroleum illusory, 277, 278.
Smithsonian Institution, 210.

Solar heat wasting, 409.

66 amount of, 422.
system in a blaze, 36, 38.

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served, 32.
Specimens, illustrative, of primordial
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amount of heat from, 408.

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"constitution of, 426.

Superior, Lake, see Lake Superior.

Superiority of man over brutes, 375.
66 criteria of, 323.

Supplies of petroleum, 286.

Surface materials of Southern States, 222.
assorted, 232.

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oil at Enniskillen, 292.
shows of petroleum, 276.

Sutro tunnel, 440.
Swales, 267.

Swallow, G. C., on Missouri, 125.
"Permian rocks, 172.

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Syenites, 52.

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Specimens, illustrative, of planetary Symplegades, character of, 25.

stages, 46.

Spectroscope and its revelations, 425.
Speech possessed by primeval man, 363.
Spirifers, 316.

Spiritual bodies, 372.

66 phenomena, 371.
Spirits in search of oil, 280.
Splintery coals, 288.

Sponges in Lower Silurian, 82.
Springs and wells, 233.

Spring-poles in well-boring, 286.
Soils, changes in, and their effects, 251.
of prairies, see Prairies.

Somme, human relics in valley of, 356, 367.
Southern States, surface materials of, 222,

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