CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER I.

Of Physical Geography — Position of the Earth in the SolarSystem — Distance from the Sun — Civil Year — Inclinationof Terrestrial Orbit — Mass of the Sun — Distance of theMoon — Figure and Density of the Earth from the Motions ofthe Moon — Figure of the Earth from Arcs of the Meridian —from Oscillations of Pendulum — bocal Disturbances — MeanDensity of the Earth — Known Depth below its Surface —Outline of Geology ...... Page 1

CHAPTER II.

Direction of the Forces that raised the Continents — Proportion ofLand and Water — Size of the Continents and Islands — Outlineof the Land — Extent of Coasts , and proportion they bear tothe Areas of the Continents — Elevation of the Continents —Forms of Mountains — Forms of Rocks — Connexion betweenPhysical Geography of Countries and their Geological Structure

— Contemporaneous Upheaval of parallel Mountain Chains —Parallelism of Mineral Veins or Fissures — Mr. Hopkins’sTheory of Fissures — Parallel Chains similar in Structure —Interruptions in Continents and Mountain Chains — Form ofthe Great Continent — The High Lands of the Great Continent

— The Atlas, Spanish, French , and German Mountains —The Alps, Balkan , and Apennines — Glaciers — GeologicalNotice ......... 45