PART I.--WONDERS OF THE EARTH.

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Chap. I. Parley explains how the Strata of the Earth are placed 1

Chap. II. What creatures once lived where Dorsetshire now is 5 The Icthyosaurus 6 The Plesiosaurus 14 The Pterodactyle, &c. 17

Chap. III. What sort of a place once existed where the neighbourhood of Paris is now, and the animals that lived there 21 The Palæotherium 22 The Anoplotherium, &c. 25 The Dinotherium 26

Chap. IV. Of Great Caverns in England and Germany, filled with bones of wild animals 30 Dr. Buckland's account of the great cave of Gaylenreuth 31

Chap. V. Of other animals that once lived in England and elsewhere The Elephant 34 The Gigantic Elk 38 The Megatherium 39 The Beaver 41 The Dodo 42

Chap. VI. Parley describes Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Hot Springs 47 Earthquake of Calabria 49 Volcanoes 61 The way in which an Eruption takes place 63 Lava Streams 65 Great Lava Streams from Skapta Jokul, in Iceland 69 Alluvions 70 The Great Volcano Kirauea, in the island of Hawaii 71 Of the formation of new islands 76 Parley describes his visit to the Geysers of Iceland 78 The Sulphur Mountains and Sulphur Springs 87 How the Geysers may be caused 89

Chap. VII. Of the Rocks called Basaltic 92 Parley's visit to Staffa 93 The Giant's Causeway 101

Chap. VIII. Why Parley believes that there is a great source of heat within the globe 103

Chap. IX. Parley tells something about the history of Mount Vesuvius 111 The Grotto del Cano 112 Of the death of Pliny, the Naturalist 115 Herculaneum and Pompeii 124

Chap. X. Parley describes the Falls of Niagara 135