Physical geography. By Mary Somerville ...

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Bonbon, plain, its height, 99. Caucasian race of mankind, 471; its
1Bor'ax, lakes of, in Tibet, 69, 262. distribution, 472.
Botfieo, general features, products, Cavendish, Mr., 20.
a nd climate of, 144; population of, Cebus, an American monkey, 463.?472. Celtic races of man. 476.
Boue, Mi., his deductions from a com- Cerealia, geographical distribution of,
parison of different parts of the 379.
land, 44; nature's fundamental Cereopsis, an Australian bird, 444.
types few, ib.; interruptions in con- Cerro Duida, height of, 104.
tinents and mountain-chains, 46; Cetacea, division of, 412.
Scandinavian mountair system, 71. Ceylon, island of, 81; flora of, 350., Dr., on the influence of chains Chameleons, 425.
of mountains on the difference of Chamois, 451, 453.
nations, 484. Charpentier, M., his measurement
Brazil, table-land, its height and form, of the base of the Pyrenees, 135,
105; boundaries, ib.; mountain- note.
chains, ib.; soil, 106; flora of, 369; Cheetah, the hunting leopard, 455.
insects of, 401. Cheiromys, or Aye-Aye, an anomaBrienz, lakes of; 259. lous animal, 460.
Britain, flora of, 338. Cheiroptera, or bats, 448.
British mountains, geology of, 73. Chelonians, or turtles, 426.
British population, 478. Chelyde, 426.
Brooke, Sir J., at Borneo, 495. Cherokee Indians, 493.
Buch, Von, the structure ofthe globe, Chile, its climate, 96; group of vol.
40, inote; notice of mountains in canic vents, 110; rise of the coast,
Germany, 45; classification of 114; vegetation of, 373.
islands, 141, 142; boundary of the Chillan, volcano of, 111, note.
Australian continent, 143. Chimpanzee, 456, 459.
Bunsen, Chevalier, on the antiquity China, great productiveness of, 79;
of the Egyptian dynasties, 480. area of its alluvial plain, ib.; extent
Buphaga, a genus of birds, 437. of Great Canal of, ib.; climate, ib.;
fire-hills and fire-springs of, 155;
CAAiMA antelope, 458. flora of, 342.
Cabiai, myopotamus, 467. Chinchilla, 467.
Cachalot, or spermaceti whale, 414. Chinese empire, extent of mountains
Cacilis, genus of reptiles, 420. in, 61.
Calbongos, 88. - population, 472.
Camel, Bactrian, 454; Arabian, or Chionis, an antarctic bird, 443.
dromedary, 455. Chiquisaca, 98.
Camellia, country of, 342. Chlamyphores, 464.
Campbell's Island, 377. Choco, chain of, 101.
Campos Parecis, desert of, 106. [Christians, number of, 470.]
Canadas, the, products, 128; ice- [Cicada septendecem, 399.]
storms, ib.; waste-land, 129. Cinchona, or Peruvian-bark tree, 332,
[Canals, in the United States, 248.] 370.
Cape Negro, 88. Circassians, 471.
Cape pigeons, or pintadoes, 428. Civilization, effects of, 474; greatest
Cariama, a gallinaceous bird, 441. in the vicinity of the sea, 492.
Caribbean Sea, 220. Climate during the Eiocene period,
Caroline Archipelago, 147. 30; excessive cold of the Pliocene
Carpathian mountains, 50. period, 32.
Carnivorous quadrupeds, 448. - altered by cultivation, 486.
Cashmere, flora of, 330. Clouds, formation and height of, 292;
- -- goat, 454. different names given to, ib.
Casius, Mlount, height of, 84. Coal, diffusion of, 190-195; quantity
Caspian Sea, its depression, 74. consumed and exported annually by
- -, 260. Great Britain, 192, note; quantity
Cassican, genus of birds, 436. produced in France in 1841, 193;
Cassowary, 436. quantity raised in one year, ib.,
Caucasus, the, 57; flora of, 329, 330, note; [quantity in several countries,
note, 193, note;] annual value of coal, 495.