Footnotes:

[18] Physico-Theology by the Rev. Wm. Derham.

[55] See Frontispiece to this Chapter, p. [36].

[85] See Frontispiece to this Chapter, p. [74].

[133] This plan was brought before the notice of the British Association for the advancement of Science in the year 1840.

[155] Harvey’s Meteorology, in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana.

[181] One of the stones which fell at L’Aigle, on being analysed by Thenard, gave—

Silica 46 per cent.
Magnesia 10
Iron 45
Nickel 2
Sulphur 5

[210] See Frontispiece to this Chapter, p. 190.