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I. De Sancy Peak, Mont Dore 42
II. Basaltic Mountain of La Coupe d’Ayzac 46
III. Extinct Volcanoes of Le Puy 52
IV. Mud Volcano of Turbaco 62
V. Great Geyser of Iceland 66
VI. The Earth in a gaseous state circulating in space 82
VII. Condensation and rainfall 94
VIII. Ideal Landscape of the Silurian Period 104
IX. Ideal Landscape of the Devonian Period 121
X. Ideal view of marine life in the Carboniferous
Period 147
XI. Ideal view of a marshy forest in the Coal Period 156
XII. Ideal Landscape of the Permian Period 172
XIII. Ideal Landscape of the Muschelkalk Period 191
XIV. Ideal Landscape of the Saliferous or Keuper Period 198
XV. Ideal Scene of the Lias Period with Ichthyosaurus
and Plesiosaurus 231
XVI. Ideal Landscape of the Liassic Period 241
XVII. Ideal Landscape of the Lower Oolite Period 254
XVIII. Ideal Landscape of the Middle Oolite Period 258
XIX. Apiocrinites rotundus and Encrinus liliiformis 261
XX. Ideal Landscape of the Upper Oolite Period 267
XXI. Ideal Scene of the Lower Cretaceous Period 296
XXII. Ideal Landscape of the Cretaceous Period 307
XXIII. Ideal Landscape of the Eocene Period 328
XXIV. Ideal Landscape of the Miocene Period 352
XXV. Ideal Landscape of the Pliocene Period 375
XXVI. Skeleton of the Mammoth in the St. Petersburg
Museum 394
XXVII. Skeleton of Megatherium 403
XXVIII. Ideal View of the Quaternary Epoch--Europe 416
XXIX. Ideal Landscape of the Quaternary Epoch--America 419
XXX. Deluge of the North of Europe 425
XXXI. Glaciers of Switzerland 445
XXXII. Appearance of Man 468
XXXIII. Asiatic Deluge 483
DIAGRAM AT END--Ideal Section of the Earth’s Crust, showing the
order of superposition or chronological succession of
the principal groups of strata.