The American Book Company ("Manual of Geology," by James Dwight Dana).

G. P. Putnam's Sons ("Earthquakes in the Light of the New Seismology," by C. E. Dutton).

The Clarendon Press ("Geology: Chemical, Physical, and Stratigraphical," by Joseph Prestwich).

The Publishers.


[CONTENTS]

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I. The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa in 1883[1]
II. Some Effects of the Eruption of Krakatoa[12]
III. The Volcanic Island of Hawaii[26]
IV. The Volcanic Island of Iceland[46]
V. Vesuvius[58]
VI. Other Volcanoes of the Mediterranean[73]
VII. Orizaba, Popocatepetl, Ixtaccihuatl, and Other Volcanoes of Mexico[85]
VIII. Coseguina and Other Volcanoes of Central America[91]
IX. The Volcanic Mountains of South America[97]
X. Volcanoes of the United States[105]
XI. The Catastrophe of Martinique and the Volcanic Islands of the Lesser Antilles[117]
XII. Some Other Noted Volcanic Mountains[125]
XIII. Jorullo, a Young Volcanic Mountain[130]
XIV. Mid-Ocean Volcanic Islands[137]
XV. Submarine Volcanoes[141]
XVI. Distribution of the Earth's Volcanoes[148]
XVII. Volcanoes of the Geological Past[153]
XVIII. LaPlace's Nebular Hypothesis[157]
XIX. The Earth's Heated Interior, the Cause of Volcanoes[165]
XX. Some Forms of Lava[178]
XXI. Mud Volcanoes and Hot Springs[193]
XXII. The Volcanoes of the Moon[207]
XXIII. Earthquakes[219]
XXIV. Some of the Phenomena of Earthquakes[231]
XXV. The Earthquake of Calabria in 1783[245]
XXVI. The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755[252]
XXVII. The Earthquake of Cutch, India, in 1819[257]
XXVIII. The San Francisco Earthquake of April 18, 1906[262]
XXIX. Some Other Notable Earthquakes[269]
XXX. Sodom and Gomorrah and the Cities of the Plain[281]
XXXI. Instruments for Recording and Measuring Earthquake Shocks[290]
XXXII.Seaquakes[296]
XXXIII. The Distribution of Earthquakes[303]
XXXIV. The Causes of Earthquakes[308]
XXXV. Earthquakes of the Geological Past—Cataclysms[319]
XXXVI. The Kimberly Diamond Fields and Their Volcanic Origin[326]
XXXVII. The Fabled Continent of Atlantis[335]
XXXVIII. Plato's Account of Atlantis[344]
XXXIX. Nature's Warning of Coming Earthquakes[364]