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| Carboniferous Forest |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face title |
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| Tabular Geological Profile of Strata with corresponding Fossils |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Aqueous Strata disturbed by Igneous Formations |
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| Ammonites Henleyi (Middle Lias) |
from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’ |
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| Trilobite |
from Kemp’s ‘Phasis of Matter’ |
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| Magnified Eye of Trilobite |
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| Pterygotus acuminatus (Eurypterid) |
from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’ |
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| Spirifer princeps (Brachiopod) |
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| Pterichthys Milleri, restored (Old Red Sandstone of Scotland) |
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| Ventriculites, Fossil Sponge (Chalk) |
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| Siphonia costata, Fossil Sponge, (Green(Green Sand, Warminster) |
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| Encrinus liliiformis (Muschelkalk, Germany) |
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| Pentacrinus briareus |
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| Marsupites ornatus (Chalk) |
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| Turrilites tuberculatum |
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| Restored Belemnite |
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| Ichthyosaurus communis |
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| Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus (British Museum—found in the Lias of Street, near Glastonbury) |
from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’ |
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| Glyptodon clavipes |
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| Diagram illustrating action of Syphon |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Section of an Intermittent Spring |
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| Geysirs of Iceland |
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| Porous Strata, Artesian Well sunk in the London Basin |
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| Middle and Valley Lake Craters, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
from Wood’s ‘Australia’ to face page |
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| Extinct Crater of Haleakala |
from Webb’s ‘Celestial Objects’ |
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| Eruption of Vesuvius, Bay of Naples |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face page |
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| Mud Volcanoes of Trinidad |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Great Earthquake at Lisbon |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face page |
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| Axmouth Landslip |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Stalactital Cavern at Aggtelek: the Cave of Borodla |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face page |
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| Entrance to the Cave of Adelsberg |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Stalactital Cavern in Australia |
from Wood’s ‘Australia’ |
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| Cave under Bonifacio |
from Forester’s ‘Corsica’ |
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| Leptodirus Höchenwartii |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| The Proteus anguinus |
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| Blind Fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) |
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| Indian Rock-cut Temple |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face page |
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| Rock Temples of Ajunta (general view) |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Lower Glacière of St. Livres |
from Browne’s ‘Ice Caves’ |
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| Ice Streams in the Upper Glacière of St. Livres |
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| Entrance to the Glacière of St. Georges |
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| Gallery with Tombs |
from Northcote and Brownlow’s ‘Roma Sotterranea’ |
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| Cave in Dream Lead Mine, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Boring Machine in the Tunnel, Mont Cenis |
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taken from the ‘Illustrated London News’ by permission |
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| Boring Machine in the Second Working Gallery, Mont Cenis Tunnel |
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| Process of Boring |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Section of a Lead Mine in Cardiganshire |
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from Ure’s ‘Dictionary of Arts, Manufacture, and Mines’. |
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| Part of a Colliery laid out in four panels |
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| General View of Mining Operations |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Tools used by Miners in Cornwall |
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from Ure’s ‘Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines’ |
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| Conveyance of Minerals underground |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Miners descending Shaft in Owen’s Safety Cage |
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| Timbering of a Mine |
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from Ure’s ‘Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines’ |
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| Transverse Sections of Walled Drain Galleries |
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| Drainage of a Mine by Adit Levels |
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| Safety Lamp |
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| Gold-washing in Australia |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Stamping Mill |
from Ure’s ‘Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines’ |
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| Grinding Mill |
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| The Botallack Mine, Cornwall |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall |
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| Blast Furnace |
from Ure’s ‘Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines’ |
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| Pecopteris adiantoides |
from Haughton’s ‘Manual of Geology’ |
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| Sphenopteris affinis |
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| Lepidodendron elegans |
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| Asterophyllites comosa |
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| Sigillaria oculata |
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| Calamites nodosus |
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| Coalbeds rendered available by elevation, |
from ‘Our Coal and Our Coal Pits’ |
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| Section of Coal-field south of Malmesbury |
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from Ure’s ‘Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines’ |
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| Coal-basin of Clackmannanshire |
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| Dudley Coal-field |
from Howitt’s ‘Visits to Remarkable Places’ |
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| Shipping Coal |
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| Coal Hewers at Work |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Pitch Lake of Trinidad |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face page |
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| Insects and Vegetable Substances inclosed in Amber, |
engraved by G. Pearson |
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| Penrhyn Slate Quarry, North Wales |
engraved by G. Pearson, to face page |
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