CHAPTER XIII.

SCRIPTURE AND GEOLOGY; OR, APPARENT CONTRADICTIONS RECONCILED 255

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY S. & G. NICHOLLS.

PAGE BASALTIC COLUMNS, REGIA, MEXICO Frontispiece. SECTION OF THE EARTH’S CRUST 16 DITTO 21 LONDON BASIN 25 SECTION OF DITTO 25 ARTESIAN WELL 27 MINING DISTRICT 41 SECTION OF A MINE 43 TRILOBITE 56 DITTO 57 EYES OF DITTO 58 CRYSTALLIZATION ON CORNISH SLATE 60 BELLEROPHON 61 SILURIAN REMAINS 61 DITTO 62 CORALLINE 62 LAND’S END 66 FISH SCALES 74 FISH TAILS 75 CEPHALASPIS 76 COCCOSTEUS 77 PTERICHTHYS 78 OSTEOLEPIS 79 EXTINCT AND EXISTING FERNS 87 FLORA OF THE CARBONIFEROUS SYSTEM 95 ASTEROPHYLLITE AND SPHENOPTERIS 97 PECOPTERIS, ODONTOPTERIS, AND NEUROPTERIS 98 CALAMITES 100 STIGMARIA FICOIDES 101 MINER AT WORK, AND LAMP 105 CASTS OF RAIN DROPS 111 FOOTPRINTS OF BIRD 113 DITTO 114 FOOTPRINTS OF LABYRINTHODON 116 AMMONITES 130 DITTO AND NAUTILUS 131 DITTO 132 ICHTHYOSAURUS 137 PLESIOSAURUS 140 DIRT-BED, PORTLAND 150 OOLITE CORAL 151 DITTO 152 PEAR ENCRINITES 164 DITTO 165 DITTO, WITH CORAL 166 AMMONITES JASON 166 OOLITE SHELLS 169 DISCOVERING THE PTERODACTYLE 170 THE PHILOSOPHER AND DITTO 171 PTERODACTYLE SKELETON 173 DITTO, RESTORED 174 FAUNA OF THE OOLITIC PERIOD 195 ROYSTON HEATH 206 FOSSIL TEETH (GREENSAND) 209 FOSSILS FROM THE GAULT (FOLKSTONE) 210 DITTO 211 FOSSILS FROM THE CHALK 212 FOSSIL FISH 214 DITTO 215 WALTONIAN AND MANTELLIAN FISHERMEN 223 FOSSILS FROM THE LONDON CLAY 238 WOOD PERFORATED BY THE TEREDINA 241 SEPTARIA 242 FOSSILS FROM RED CRAG 245 MEGATHERIUM 248 MASTODON 250 FOSSIL MAN 251 CLIFF, GUADALOUPE 252 THE GEOLOGIST’S DREAM 254 THE RECONCILIATION 288

GEOLOGY.