The High Lands of the Great Continent (_continued_)—The Caucasus— The Western Asiatic Table-Land and its Mountains 54 CHAPTER IV. The High Lands of the Great Continent (_continued_)—The Oriental Table-Land and its Mountains 58 CHAPTER V. Secondary Mountain Systems of the Great Continent—That of Scandinavia—Great Britain and Ireland—The Ural Mountains—The Great Northern Plain 69 CHAPTER VI. The Southern Low Lands of the Great Continent, with their Secondary Table-Lands and Mountains 77 CHAPTER VII. Africa—Table-Land—Cape of Good Hope and Eastern Coast—Western Coast—Abyssinia—Senegambia—Low Lands and Deserts 85 CHAPTER VIII. American Continent—The Mountains of South America—The Andes—The Mountains of the Parima and Brazil 93 CHAPTER IX. The Low Lands of South America—Desert of Patagonia—The Pampas of Buenos Ayres—The Silvas of the Amazons—The Llanos of the Orinoco and Venezuela—Geological Notice 105 CHAPTER X. Central America—West Indian Islands—Geological Notice 114 CHAPTER XI. North America—Table-Land and Mountains of Mexico—The Rocky Mountains—The Maritime Chain and Mountains of Russian America 119 CHAPTER XII. North America (_continued_)—The Great Central Plains, or Valley of the Mississippi—The Alleghany Mountains—The Atlantic Slope—The Atlantic Plain—Geological Notice—The Mean Height of the Continents 123 CHAPTER XIII. The Continent of Australia—Tasmania, or Van Diemen’s Land— Islands—Continental Islands—Pelasgic islands—New Zealand—New Guinea—Borneo—Atolls—Encircling Reefs—Coral Reefs—Barrier Reefs— Volcanic Islands—Areas of Subsidence and Elevation in the Bed of the Pacific—Active Volcanos—Earthquakes—Secular Changes in the Level of the Land 136 CHAPTER XIV. Arctic Lands—Greenland—Spitzbergen—Iceland—Its Volcanic Phenomena and Geysers—Jan Mayen’s Land—New Siberian Islands—Antarctic Lands—Victoria Continent 159 CHAPTER XV.