Chapter II: 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