Geological researches in China, Mongolia, and Japan, during the years 1862-1865.

INDEX.
F = Fu, departmental city; C = Chau, sometimes departmental-, but generally district-city; H = Hien, district
town; T= Ting, and Ts = Tsang, smaller towns.
Abel, Clarke, 51, 52, 65 Analyses of Chingshui Appendix No. 2, 123 Barabinski steppe, 69, 77
on height of Lake (bitum.), 17, 124 No. 3, 126 Barkoul, 60
Lo, 48 Tehyih, 19, 124 Arachnoidiscus, 127 Barrier range, 23, 31, 32,
Abura, tufa-sandstone at, Yingwo, 19, 125 Aralo-Caspian depression, 63
99 Tashhitang, 19, 124 69, 77 gorge traversing, 32
Achase, tufa-conglomerate Ancient lake area, present Arch of marble at Kiyung- metamorphic
near, 98 drainage of, 44 kwan, 12 schists of, 32
acicularis, Podocarpites, gold washings, remains Arctic Ocean, 74, 77 hornblendic rocks
123 of, at Kunnui, 93 Arenaceous limestone of of, 35, 36
Actinoptychus, 127 method of gold wash- the steppe deposit, 71 Barrow's estimate of silt
Agates, 116, 117, 118 ing, 91 Argillaceous and talco- discharged by Yellow
Agate pebbles on plains of lake system of northern argillaceous rocks river 49
Mongolia, 70 China, 40 near Nagasaki, 107 Bars isolating lakes, 41
Ainos, settlement of, 90 lakes of northern China, rock with fossil plants, Barytes in Yurup veins,
Alacodiscus, 127 islands in, 40 on Kaiyanobetz, 97 102
Alluvial watersheds, 28 lake deposit independ- schist in Kingan moun-Basalt hills, 74
deposits near Itu, 7 ent of present water- tains, 68 Basaltic lavas of the plaloam deposit near Bili- courses, 32 Argillite with vermiform tea 38
ka Noor, 71 lake loam a river-silt, 42 fossil, 102, 104, 105 cones on the Gobi
Altai mountains, 67, 68 lakes, extent of, 44 at Kunnui, 91 desert, 73
rocks of Eastern, 74 watch-towers near the at Isoya, 93of
Altan Kingan mountains, Te Hai, 30 near Achase, 98y of Oda, 106
67 Angara river, tables along, near Washinoki, 90 of Yeddo, 107
Alteration of rock by vol- 75, 76 metamorphic, at Yu- Be chert n lmestone,
canic gases, 96 Angouli Noor, 26 rup, 102 Beech trees on Y 93
Alum produced by altera- Anki (H.), 115 Argillites of Ichinowatari, Beec trees on Yesso, 93
tion of felspar, 96 Anko, 58 80Belgum, 54
and sulphur on Esan, 86 anthracite at, 65 Argun river, 68 etz (creek),
in China, 56, 57, 58 Anthracite, 11, 122 Art based on the curious Biddulphia, 127
Amaksa, limestone and in China, 119 in nature in China and Bilika Noor, beds of limesandstone on, 107 localities of, 56, 57, Japan, 62stone, gypsum, et.,
Amber, 116, 117, 118 58 Artificial deposit in a lime near, 71
Amethyst, 117, 118 and coals, analyses of, quarry, 12 eroion near, 77
Amherst's embassy, ob- 123, 124, 125 Ascent to the plateau north th fro, under miservations of Lord, 7 of Tatsau mine, 15,123 of Kalgan, 25 c rcope, 7
Ammonites from N. Yesso, assay, production, Asterolampra, 127iot, E., 48, 56, 57
106 and cost of, 16, 123 Auliscus, 127memo o, on th
Amur river, 2, 67 of Kiming, 22 Aulopora tubaeformis, 55 Yellow river, 47
recent terraces along, from Tashhitang mine, Auriferous gravel of Kun-on te ung 4
10S analyses of, 19, 124 nui, 91, 105, 106 Birch trees on Yesso, 93
Amygdaloid, 22 of Yingwo mine, analy- Australian coal flora, 119 Bituminous coal at Chingin conglomerate of Oou- ses of, 19, 125 Ava, 66 shui, 17, 124
ta, 100, 104 of Kwei basin, 6, 124 Axial granite, 2 Blackiston, Capt., 5, 6, 8,
of W. Yesso, age of, 101 Anticlinal axis of south- Axis, central anticlinal, of 64
of the Ousubetz creek, eastern peninsula of China, 2, 63 observations of, in Sz'101 Yesso, 106 east of coast range, 65 chuen, 62
in Kunnui gravel, 91 ridges, 44 coast, of elevation, 65 Black slate near Kanchau,
at Kunnui, 91 central axis of China, 2, Aying, 112, 116 52
near Kunnui, 91 63 U Black sea, 77
Analyses of Chinese and Aphanite at Oouta, 100, Bagley, Rev. P., 56, 57 Blake, Prof. W. P., 80,126
Japanese coals, 123 101 Baikal, lake, 75 Blast, first, made in Japan,
of Chinese coals: of western Yesso, rela- volcanic rocks of lake, 89
Futau (bitum.), 15, tive age of, 104 75 furnaces on European
123 near Futoro, 100 N. E., S. W. trend of, 1 model smelting
Hsingshun (bitum.), Appalachians, 69 Baltic, 69 iron ore in Nam15 analogous to the Sini- Baltimore, 122, 128 bu, 88
Tatsau (anthr.), 16, ans, 62, 68 Bamboo, species of, on European, at Kobi,
123 Appendix No. 1, 119 Yesso, 79 88
17 August, 1866. 129