Lower Cretaceous Period 286 Upper Cretaceous Period 300 TERTIARY EPOCH 312 Eocene Period 315 Miocene Period 336 Pliocene Period 357 QUATERNARY EPOCH 378 POST-PLIOCENE 378 EUROPEAN DELUGES 422 GLACIAL PERIOD 435 CREATION OF MAN 464 ASIATIC DELUGE 480 EPILOGUE 489 TABLE AND DIAGRAM OF BRITISH SEDIMENTARY AND FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA 493 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. FRONTISPIECE--THE FIRST MAN. PAGE I. De Sancy Peak, Mont Dore 42 II. Basaltic Mountain of La Coupe d’Ayzac 46 III. Extinct Volcanoes of Le Puy 52 IV. Mud Volcano of Turbaco 62 V. Great Geyser of Iceland 66 VI. The Earth in a gaseous state circulating in space 82 VII. Condensation and rainfall 94 VIII. Ideal Landscape of the Silurian Period 104 IX. Ideal Landscape of the Devonian Period 121 X. Ideal view of marine life in the Carboniferous Period 147 XI. Ideal view of a marshy forest in the Coal Period 156 XII. Ideal Landscape of the Permian Period 172 XIII. Ideal Landscape of the Muschelkalk Period 191 XIV. Ideal Landscape of the Saliferous or Keuper Period 198 XV. Ideal Scene of the Lias Period with Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus 231 XVI. Ideal Landscape of the Liassic Period 241 XVII. Ideal Landscape of the Lower Oolite Period 254 XVIII. Ideal Landscape of the Middle Oolite Period 258 XIX. Apiocrinites rotundus and Encrinus liliiformis 261 XX. Ideal Landscape of the Upper Oolite Period 267 XXI. Ideal Scene of the Lower Cretaceous Period 296 XXII. Ideal Landscape of the Cretaceous Period 307 XXIII. Ideal Landscape of the Eocene Period 328 XXIV. Ideal Landscape of the Miocene Period 352 XXV. Ideal Landscape of the Pliocene Period 375 XXVI. Skeleton of the Mammoth in the St. Petersburg