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- Gravel, how far transported, 108
- of Patagonia, 75, 171
- Greenstone, fragments of, 257
- Gryllus migratorius, 329
- Guanaco, habits of, 166
- , fossil allied genus, 172
- Guantajaya, mines of, 363
- Guardiadei Monte, 118
- Guasco, 348
- Guasos of Chile, 258
- Guava, imported into Tahiti, 403
- Guinea-fowl, 5, 493
- Gunnera scabra, 278
- Gypsum, great beds of, 319
- in salt-lake, 66
- in Patagonian tertiary-beds, 171
- at Iquique with salt, 364
- at Lima with shells, 369
- Hachette, M., on lightning-tubes, 60
- Hailstorm, 115
- Hall, Capt. Basil, on terraces of Coquimbo, 343
- Hare, Varying, 45
- Head, Capt, on thistle-beds, 119, 124
- Height of snow-line on Cordillera, 244
- Henslow, Prof., on potatoes, 285
- , on plants of Keeling Island, 454
- Hermit crabs, 457
- Hill, emitting a noise, 361
- Himantopus, 114
- Hogoleu barrier-reef, 469
- Holes made by a bird, 95
- Holman on drifted seeds, 454
- Holuthuriæ feeding on coral, 465
- Hooker, Sir J., on the Cardoon, 119
- , Dr. J. D., on the Kelp, 239
- , on Galapageian plants, 392, 395
- Horn, Cape, 211
- Horner, Mr., on a calcareous deposit, 10
- Horse-fly, 170
- Horses difficult to drive, 110
- drop excrement on paths, 119
- killed by great droughts, 134
- , multiplication of, 233
- broken in, 151
- Horse, powers of swimming of, 143
- wild at the Falkland Islands, 191
- Horse, fossil, 82, 130
- Horsemanship of the Gauchos, 153, 195
- Hot springs of Cauquenes, 263
- Huacas, 368, 370
- Humboldt on burnished rocks, 12
- on the atmosphere in
- tropics, 32
- on frozen soil, 88
- on hybernation, 98
- on potatoes, 285
- on earthquakes and rain, 351
- on miasma, 366, 435
- Humming-birds of Rio de Janeiro, 32
- of Chile, 271
- Hybernation of animals, 98
- Hydrochærus capybara, 49
- Hydrophobia, 353
- Hyla, 29
- Hymenophallus, 32
- Jackson, Col., on frozen snow, 325
- Jaguar, habits of, 135
- Jajuel, mines of, 259
- James Island, Galapagos Archipelago, 376
- Juan Fernandez, volcano of, 310
- , flora of, 392
- Ibis melanops, 165
- Ice, prismatic structure of, 325
- Icebergs, 187, 224, 246 to 251
- Incas' bridge, 334, 356
- Incrustations on coast rocks, 9, 12
- Indian fossil remains, 370
- Indians, attacks of, 64, 77, 129
- , Patagoniaus, 231
- , Araucarians, 299
- of the Pampas, 100
- of Valdivia, 299
- , perforated stones used by, 267
- , powers of tracking, 328
- , grave of, 169, 187
- , ruins of houses of, in Cordillera, 356, 368
- , antiquities of, in La Plata, 46, 105
- decrease in numbers, 104
- Infection, 435
- Infusoria in dust in the Atlantic, 5
- in the sea, 15, 162
- in Pampas, 82, 130
- in Patagonia, 170
