, on palm wood in Bohemian coal, 88.
----, cited, 133.

Cordier, M., on rate of increase of heat in mines, 538, 539.
----, his theory on central heat and fluidity, 540.
----, on tides in the internal melted ocean, 541.

Cordilleras shaken by earthquakes, 457, 466.
----, parallel ridges successively upheaved, 170.

Corinth, decomposition of rocks in, 733.

Cornwall, waste of cliffs of, 323.
----, land inundated by drift-sand in, 727.
----, temperature of mines in, 538.

Coromandel, inundations of sea on coast of, 730.

Coseguina volcano, great eruption of, 347.

Cosmogony distinct from geology, 3.
----, of the Hindoos, 4.
----, Egyptian, 8.
----, of the Koran, 18.

Cosmopolite shells, 650.

Coste, Capt., on elevation caused by earthquakes, 453.

Cotopaxi, 348, 560.

Covelli, M., on hot spring in Ischia, 456.
----, on Vesuvian minerals, 385.

Cowper, the poet, on age of earth, 55.

Crag strata, fossils of the, 142.

Craters of elevation, theory of, 371, 380, 415.

Crawfurd, Mr., his discovery of fossils in Ava, 28.
----, on eruption in Sumbawa, 106, 464, 465.
----, on drifting of canoes, 662.

Creation, supposed centres or foci of, 667.
----, epoch of, difference of opinion on, 660.

Cremona, lakes filled up near, 255.

Crocodiles imbedded by a river inundation in Java, 503, 748.

Cromer, waste of cliffs of, 306.

Cropthorn, fossils found at, 76.

Cruickshanks, Mr. A., on Chilian earthquake, 457.

Cuba, fossils in caves of, 741.

Culver, cliff, 318.

Cumana, earthquake of, 470.

Cunningham, Major, on buried temples of Cashmere, 764.

Cupressus thyoides, 725.

Currents from equatorial regions, 96.
----, from the pole to the equator, 107.
----, causes and velocity of, 293.
----, polar and tropical, direction of, 295.
----, destroying and transporting power of, 297, 340.
----, in estuaries, their power, 337.
----, in the Straits of Gibraltar, 333.

Currents, reproductive effects of, 337.
----, on the British shores, 339.
----, convey species from Antarctic to Arctic Ocean, 622.

Curtis, Mr., on ravages caused by aphides, 674.
----, on power of the Tipulae to cross the sea, 657.
----, on number of British insects, 705.
----, on fossil insects, 748.

Curves of the Mississippi, 265.

Cutch, changes caused by earthquake of 1819 in, 469, 761.

Cuvier on durability of bo