Frontispiece. – This representation of the present state of the Temple of Serapis has been carefully reduced from that given by the Canonico Andrea de Jorio in his ‘Ricerche sul Tempio di Serapide, in Puzzuoli.’ Napoli, 1820
1. Transverse section of the Italian peninsula
2. Diagram explanatory of the sinuosity of river-courses
3. Diagram showing the recent excavation of lava at the foot of Etna by the river Simeto
15. Chart and section of Santorin and the contiguous islands in the Grecian Archipelago
16. View of the Isle of Palma, and of the Caldera in its centre
17. View of the cone and crater of Barren Island in the Bay of Bengal
18. Supposed section of the same
19. Deep fissure near Polistena in Calabria, caused by the earthquake of 1783
20. Shift or ‘fault’ in the round tower of Terranuova in Calabria, occasioned by the earthquake of 1783
21. Shift in the stones of two obelisks in the Convent of S. Bruno
22. Fissures near Jerocarne in Calabria, caused by the earthquake of 1783
27. Landslips near Cinquefrondi, caused by earthquake of 1783
30. Ground plan of the coast of the Bay of Baiæ in the environs of Puzzuoli
31. Two sections, the one exhibiting the relation of the recent marine deposits to the more ancient in the Bay of Baiæ to the north of Puzzuoli, and the other exhibiting the same relation to the south-east
32. View of the crater of the great Geyser in Iceland
33. Supposed section of the subterranean reservoir and pipe of a Geyser in Iceland
Frontispiece. – View of part of the Valley del Bove, on the East side of the great Cone of Etna [Part of a panoramic drawing made by Lyell in 1828, this appeared in the first edition with hand-colouring – Ed.]
4. Maldiva Isles
5. View of Witsunday Island
6. Section of a coral island
7. Ditto of part of a coral island
Frontispiece. – View of the volcanoes around Olot, in Catalonia [From a sketch by Lyell, which appeared in the first edition with hand-colouring and an accompanying geological key – Ed.]
1. Diagram showing the order of succession of stratified masses
2. Diagram showing the relative position of the Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary strata
3. Diagram showing the relative age of the strata of the Paris basin, and those of the basin of the Loire, in Touraine
4. Diagram showing the same in the strata of Suffolk and Piedmont
17. Wood-cut showing the great valley on the east side of Etna
19. View of dikes at the base of the Serre del Solfizio, Etna
20. View of tortuous dikes or veins of lava, Punto di Guimento, Etna
21. View of the rocks Finochio, Capra, and Musara, in the Val del Bove
22. View from the summit of Etna into the Val del Bove