This eBook contains several links to Buffon's Natural Histroy Vol. Ion The Internet Archive.
Barr's Buffon.
Buffon's Natural History.
CONTAINING
A THEORY OF THE EARTH,
A GENERAL
HISTORY OF MAN,
OF THE BRUTE CREATION, AND OF
VEGETABLES, MINERALS,
&c. &c.
FROM THE FRENCH.
WITH NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR.
IN TEN VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
SOLD AND BY H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1797.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
Proof of the Theory of the Earth.
| Page | ||
| Article XI. | Of Seas and Lakes | 1 |
| Article XII. | Of the Flux and Reflux | 58 |
| Article XIII. | Of the Inequalities at the Bottom of the Sea, and of Currents | 71 |
| Article XIV. | Of regular Winds | 86 |
| Article XV. | Of irregular Winds, Hurricanes, and other Phenomena, caused by the Agitation of the Sea and Air | 108 |
| Article XVI. | Of Volcanos and Earthquakes | 133 |
| Article XVII. | Of New Islands, Caverns, Perpendicular Clefts, &c. [iv] | 171 |