Peter Parley's Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky

by Samuel G. Goodrich

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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