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APPENDIX.

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Preliminary Observations,	1
Plan of the Essay,	4
First Appearance of the Earth,	6
First Proofs of Revolutions on the Surface of the Globe,	6
Proofs that such Revolutions have been numerous,	10
Proofs that these Revolutions have been sudden,	14
Proofs of the Occurrence of Revolutions before the Existence of Living Beings,	16
Examination of the Causes which act at present on the Surface of the Globe,	23
Of Slips, or Falling Down of the Materials of Mountains,	25
Of Alluvial Formations,	26
Of the Formation of Downs,	28
Of the Formation of Cliffs, or Steep Shores,	29
Depositions formed in Water,	30
Of Stalactites,	31
Of Lithophytes,	32
Of Incrustations,	32
Of Volcanoes,	34
Constant Astronomical Causes,	36
Older Systems of Geologists,	38
More Recent Systems,	41
Diversities of all the Systems,	44
Causes of these Differences,	46
Nature and Condition of the Problem,	46
Progress of Mineral Geology,	49
Importance of Fossil Remains in Geology,	51
High importance of the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds,	53
Small probability of discovering new Species of large Quadrupeds,	56
Inquiry respecting the Fabulous Animals of the Ancients,	69
Difficulty of determining the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds,	82
Principle by which this determination is effected,	83
View of the general Results of these Researches,	94
Relations of the Species of Fossil Animals, with the Strata in which they are found,	95
Proofs that the extinct Species of Quadrupeds are not Varieties of the presently existing Species,	102
Proofs that there are no Fossil Human Bones,	114
Physical Proofs of the Newness of the present Continents,	121
Additions of Land by the action of Rivers,	123
Progress of Downs,	133
Peat-mosses and Slips,	135
The History of Nations confirms the Newness of the Continents,	137
The very remote Antiquity attributed to certain Nations is not supported by History,	149
The Astronomical Monuments left by the Ancients do not bear the excessively remote Dates which have been attributed to them,	201

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