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Salzwerk, near Minden), the greatest depth yet reached below the
level of the sea. The hot springs near Carthage led Patricius,
Bishop of Pertusa, in the 3rd century, to form just conjectures
respecting the cause of the increase of temperature in the interior
of the earth 248


The Vital Force, or the Rhodian Genius—p. 249 to p. 257.


Note to The Vital Force, or the Rhodian Genius—p. 259 to p. 263.

The Rhodian Genius, the development of a physiological idea in a
mythical garb. Difference of views respecting the hypothesis of
peculiar vital forces. 259, 260

The difficulty of satisfactorily reducing the vital phenomena of
organisation to physical and chemical laws, is principally founded on
the complication of the phenomena, and on the multiplicity of
simultaneously acting forces, as well as the varying conditions of
the activity of those forces. Definition of the expressions "animate"
and "inanimate" substances. Criteria derived from the
composition of the elements after a substance has been separated
into parts by external agency are the simple enunciation of
facts. 260-263


The Plateau of Caxamarca, the ancient residence of the Inca Atahuallpa, and the first view of the Pacific from the crest of the Andes—p. 265 to p. 302.

Quina-producing forests in the valleys of Loxa. First use of the fever-bark in Europe; the Countess of Chinchon, wife of the Viceroy 267-269