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PREFACE.

WALKS AND TALKS.

I. FACTS; OR, THE RECORD GIVEN US TO READ.

AMONG THE ROCKS. I. The Geology at our Doors.

II. Lost Rocks.

III. The Gravel Pit.

IV. Among the Glaciers.

V. The Hillside Spring and its Work.

VI. Introduction to the Rocks

VII. The Floods of the Great Lakes.

VIII. The Mud Flat.

IX. The River Gorge.

X. A Walk Under the Sea.

XI. By the Rocky Wall.

XII. Mysterious Forms of Life.

TABLE OF GEOLOGICAL HISTORY.

XIII. Courses of the Earth’s Masonry.

XIV. A Walk in the Yellowstone Park.

XV. Among the Volcanoes.

XVI. Frozen Seas of Lava.

XVII. Imprisoned Heat.

XVIII. The Unstable Land.

XIX. The Framework of the Mountains.

XX. How the Mountain Framework is Reared.

XXI. Down in a Mine.

XXII. The King of Metals.

XXIII. The Crystals of the Sea.

XXIV. Liquid Sunlight.

XXV. Gaseous Sunlight.

XXVI. Solidified Sunlight.

AMONG THE FOSSILS.

XXVII. Monsters of a Buried World.

XXVIII. The Cemeteries of the Bad Lands.

XXIX. Lesson from a Lump of Chalk.

XXX. Lone Burials in the Coal Lands.

XXXI. Terrible Fishes and their Companions.

XXXII. Ancestry of the Pearly Nautilus.

XXXIII. The King Crab’s Grandfather and Other Grandfathers.

XXXIV. Earth’s Deepest Graves.

XXXV. An Earlier Beginning.

II. Historical Glimpses ; OR, STORY OF THE WORLD SET IN ORDER.

XXXVI. Gathering World Stuff.

XXXVII. The Whirling Fire-mist.

XXXVIII. The Primeval Storm.

XXXIX. The War in the Ocean.

XL. The World Without a Backbone.

XLI. The Dynasty of Fishes.

XLII. Scenes from the Coal Period.

XLIII. The Reptile Monarchies.

XLIV. Mammalian Rule.

XLV. Anticipation and Retrospect In Life Plans.

I. From Running-Birds Back to Reptiles.

II. From Carinate Birds Back to Reptiles.

XLVI. The Throes of the Continent.

XLVII. The Reign of Ice.

XLVIII. A Geologic Spring Time.

XLIX. The Earth Receives Her King.

III. RETROSPECT; OR , HOW THE STORY OF THE WORLD IMPRESSES US.

L. The Abyss of Centuries.

LI. The Method of Creation.

LII. The Human Factor in the World’s Vicissitudes.

LIII. Mind in Matter.

LIV. One Empire.

I. SYNOPTICAL VIEW OF THE Classification of Plants and Animals.

I. PLANTS.

II. ANIMALS.

II. Citations for Further Information.

III. Other Works by the Author of this Book.

INDEX.