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Essay on the Theory of the Earth

GEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS

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BY PROFESSOR JAMESON.

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On the Subsidence of Strata, 333

Deluge, 334

Formation of Primitive Mountains, 335

On the Distribution of Boulder-Stones in Scotland, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and America, 344

On the Alluvial Land of the Danish Islands in the Baltic and on the Coast of Sleswigh, 354

On the Sand-Flood, 368

Sand-Flood in Morayshire, 369

Sand-Flood in the Hebrides, &c. 372

Moving Sands of the African Deserts, 375

Action of the Sea upon Coasts, 378

On the Growth of Coral Islands, 379

On the Level of the Baltic, 398

Fossil Remains of the Human Species, 406

Account of the displacement of that part of the Coast of the Adriatic which is occupied by the Mouths of the Po, 410

On the Universal Deluge, 417

On the action of Running Waters, 437

Connection of Geology with Agriculture and Planting, 453

Account of the Fossil Elk of Ireland, 486

Account of the Living Species of Elephant, and of the Extinct Species of Elephant or Mammoth, 508

Account of the Caves in which Bones of Carnivorous Animals occur in great quantities, 516

Cave containing Bones at Adelsberg, in Carniola, 540

Tabular View of the Genera of Fossil Mammifera, Cetacea, Aves, Reptilia, and Insecta,—with their Geognostical Number and Distribution, 547

Tabular View of the Classes, Orders, or Families of Animals, occurring in a Living or Fossil State, with their Geognostical Distribution, 550

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