The World Before the Deluge

Previous
Louis Figuier

CONTENTS.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.

PREFACE.

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.

ERUPTIVE ROCKS.

THE BEGINNING.

PRIMARY EPOCH.

SECONDARY EPOCH.

TERTIARY PERIOD.

QUATERNARY EPOCH.

EPILOGUE.

TABLE OF BRITISH SEDIMENTARY AND FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA.

EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS TABLE.

INDEX.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Please see Transcriber's Notes at the end of this text.

Frontispiece

THE FIRST MAN.

THE
World before the Deluge.

BY

LOUIS FIGUIER.

NEWLY EDITED AND REVISED
BY
H. W. BRISTOW, F.R.S., F.G.S.,

Of the Geological Survey of Great Britain; Hon. Fellow of King’s College, London.

With 235 Illustrations.

CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN,
LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Clyx.com


Top of Page
Top of Page