Miller, Hugh, how he found a fish inside of a stone and so found Hugh Miller, [159]
Mississippi River, how the Old Men of the Mountain pushed it about, [30];
how you can jump across it, [69];
the mountains of soil it carries into the sea, [84]
Mississippi River System (map), [67]
Mississippi Valley, when it was at the bottom of a mediterranean sea, [10];
why the sea went away, [138]
Missouri River, how it was pieced together and pushed about in the Ice Age, [29]
Mohawk River, why it grew taller as it grew older, [72]
Molecules, their relations to atoms and electrons, [109]
Moraines, how the glaciers take them on their backs, [56]
Moulins, the "mills" of the glaciers and how they are made, [55]
Mountains, earliest arrivals in the mountain world, [9];
origin of bald mountains, [26];
Muir on the marvellous mountain sculpture of the snowflakes, [37];
how mountain peaks are kept sharp, [43];
rain-drops as mountain sculptors, [67];
mountains and the origin of river valleys, [69];
and the birth of partly grown rivers, [72];
mountain streams and their waterfalls, [77];
storm chorus of the mountain torrents, [78];
how mountain lakes and baby rivers go to sleep together and the liveliness of the rivers afterward, [80];
how mountains help make the water gates, [86];
why growing mountains make earthquakes, [86];
why almost all granite is found in mountain regions, [97];
the different kinds of mountains, [115];
why mountains border the sea, [134];
why they run north and south, [137];
why sea waves rise to greet the mountains, [139];
Ruskin on mountain drawing, [140];
resemblance of mountains to sea waves, [140];
how mountains helped solve the mystery of the stones of the field, [151];
sunrise in the Atlas Mountains, [163];
why desert mountains look so gaunt and hungry, [164];
why the desert winds are constantly blowing them away, [171];
mountain shapes and the law of the picturesque in Nature's art work, [229];
how the mountain chains are the making of Europe, [230];
their ups and downs, [230];
why the markings in marble tell the story of mountain building, [237];
and of mountain shaking, [239];
ancient weather records on mountain walls, [248]