Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

INDEX.

of, 67; not transparent, 67; composed of innumerable solid particles, 68; of stones, 70; the origin of comets, 70; they belong to the solar system, 70; are exploded planets, 71; organic remains found in meteorites, 73; how the comet produces striated stones and clay-dust, 74; perpetual motion in comets, 75; the great comet of 1843, 77; Winnecke’s, 104; Brorsen’s, 104.

Comet, the, explosions when entering the atmosphere, 106.

Comet, Temple’s, 397; Swift’s, 397.

Comets, the, party-colored, 76; are material, 77; their rapid motion,

47; could one strike the earth? |

82; numbers of comets in the heavens, 82; orbits of, 83; Biela’s comet, 84; Lexell’s, 84; Encke’s, 85; the comet of 1843, 77, 86; the comet of 1881, 87; of 1844, 8&; the great comet of 1811, 94, 95.

Comets, consequences to earth of eontact with, 91; increase of heat, 100.

Comets, universal belief as to, 424.

Comets have struck the carth many times, 431.

Complexion of white men, cause of, 367.

Conflagration, evidences of, in the rocks, 103; must have been local, 104; description of, 108.

Conflagration, described by Hesiod; described by Ovid, 154; described in Central American legends, 166.

“Crag and Tail,” 98.

Creeks, legends of, 201.

Cretaceous Drift, 454.

Croly, 369.

Curtis, David A., 354.

Cycles, the great, 223.

Cyclones, power of, 396.

Dahish, 272. Dalles of the St. Croix River, 51.

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Damoiseau, M., 408. -

Darkness, the Age of, 208 ; lezends of, 208; Hesiod, 208; Aristophanes, 208; Sanchoniathon, 208 ; the Babylonians, 209, 223; of the Hindoos, 209; of the Chinese, 210; Thlinkeets, 213; Miztees, 213; Aztecs, 215; Toltecs, 215; Quiches, 216; Gallinomeros, 222; Algonquins, 232; Byron’s description of Age of Darkness, 226.

Deluge of Deucalion, 403, 404.

Deluge of Noah, 403, 427.

Dentistry of Egyptians and Peruvians, 381.

Deucalion’s Deluge, 403, 404.

Deuteronomy, 263.

Dev Mrityn, 275.

Diamond, origin of, 267.

Diluvial Age, 10.

Diluyial theory explained, 10; generally abandoned, 12.

Dimiriat, 271.

“Dr. Ox’s Hobby,” 423.

Dog-Rib Indians, 182.

Donati’s comet, 75, 96, 311.

Doris, 368.

Double comets, 135.

Dragon, the, 429.

Drift, The, its characteristics, 2; unstratified, 2; unfossiliferous, 4; stones of, 5; bowlders of, 6; its origin unknown, 8 ; not caused by waves, 10; its elevation, 10; not of marine origin, 11; not produced by sea-waves, 10; nor by icebergs, 133 nor by glaciers, 17; nor by continental ice-sheets, 23; none in Siberia, 28; nor in parts of Europe, 30; nor in parts of America, 31; extent of, in America, 33; in the Arctic regions, 36; in Brazil, 37; in Africa, 39; the Drift a sudden catastrophe, 43; result of violent action, 46; a cataclysm, 46, 55; destruction of life by, 46; its action mstantaneous, 47; covered-up forests, 43; great breaks in earth accom-