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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

PART II.—WONDERS OF THE SEA.

Chap.	I.	Parley tells about the Frozen Ocean	144
		Icebergs	146
		Parley's dangerous situation on an Iceberg	150
Chap.	II.	The story of a long journey over the ice with some Esquimaux	152
Chap.	III.	The journey over the ice, continued	167
Chap.	IV.	The Whale	178
		The mode of catching Whales	183
		Character of the Whale	187
Chap.	V.	A voyage on a Tropical Sea	190
		Trade Winds and Monsoons	191
Chap.	VI.	The Waterspout	194
		How Parley supposes Waterspouts to be caused	199
Chap.	VII.	Coral Reefs and Islands	203
		Various kinds of Coral	204
		The Coral-Making Polypes	206
		Forms of the Coral Reefs	211
		Parley's first sight of one	213
Chap.	VIII.	Luminous appearance of the sea	221
		Animals by which it is occasioned, and the Acalepha in particular	223
Chap.	IX.	The Cuttle Fish	231
		The Octopus	235
Chap.	X.	The Paper Nautilus, or Argonaut	239
		How Parley saw one sailing on the sea	241
		The Pearly Nautilus	245
		The Nautilus Spirula	248

PART III.—WONDERS OF THE SKY.

Chap.	I.	The Colour of the Sky	250
Chap.	II.	The Aurora Borealis	254
Chap.	III.	Parley tells of some other Meteors
		Parhelia or Mock Suns	263
		Ignes Fatui	264
		Experiment to show the cause	266
Chap.	IV.	Shooting Stars	267
		What they are	269
Chap.	V.	Meteoric Stones, or Aerolites	273
		How they are caused	277
Chap.	VI.	Bloody Rain	280
		Red Snow	281
		Showers of Frogs and Fish	282
Chap.	VII.	The Spectre of the Brocken	285
Chap.	VIII.	Some other instances of Aerial Reflection
		Souter Fell	291
		What a Friend of Parley's saw	293
		Dover Castle	293
		What Humboldt saw	294
		What Captain Scoresby saw	295
		Apparent distance of Object	296
Chap.	IX.	Fata Morgana	299
		The Mirage	299
Chap.	X.	How Parley supposes these appearances to be produced	303
		Refraction	305
		Reflection	311

Conclusion.
	Of some other Wonders, &c.
Section	I.	How we ought to think upon what we know	314
	II.	Ever Part of the Earth a Home for something	316
	III.	Birds of Passage, Dormice, and Snails	318
	IV.	The Rein-deer—the Camel	322
	V.	Benefit of the difference of Climate	324
	VI.	The same Organs in different Animals developed in various modes and degrees—the Acalepha, Actinia, and Sepia	326
	VII.	How the Stars and we are connected together—Gravitation—Aerolites	330
	VIII.	Dew	332
	IX.	How every thing is endowed with a tendency to preserve its own life, and the existence of its race	334
	X.	The Bud of the Poppy—long retention of life by seeds and roots	336
	XI.	Of Seeds which are furnished with wings or sails	339
	XII.	Conclusion of the conclusion	340

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