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CONTENTS.

Chap.		Page
68.	What part of the earth is inhabited	100
69.	That the earth is in the middle of the world	102
70.	Of the obliquity of the zones	ib.
71.	Of the inequality of climates	ib.
72.	In what places eclipses are invisible, and why this is the case	104
73.	What regulates the daylight on the earth	105
74.	Remarks on dials, as connected with this subject	106
75.	When and where there are no shadows	107
76.	Where this takes place twice in the year and where the shadows fall in opposite directions	108
77.	Where the days are the longest and where the shortest	ib.
78.	Of the first dial	109
79.	Of the mode in which the days a are computed	110
80.	Of the difference of nations as depending on the nature of the world	ib.
81.	Of earthquakes	111
82.	Of clefts of the earth	112
83.	Signs of an approaching earthquake	114
84.	Preservatives against future earthquakes	ib.
85.	Prodigies of the earth which have occurred once only	115
86.	Wonderful circumstances attending earthquakes	116
87.	In what places the sea has receded	ib.
88.	The mode in which islands rise up	117
89.	What islands have been formed, and at what periods	118
90.	Lands which have been separated by the sea	119
91.	Islands which have been united to the main land	ib.
92.	Lands which have been totally changed into seas	ib.
93.	Lands which have been swallowed up	120
94.	Cities which have been absorbed by the sea	ib.
95.	Of vents in the earth	121
96.	Of certain lands which are always shaking, and of floating islands	122
97.	Places in which it never rains	123
98.	The wonders of various countries collected together	ib.
99.	Concerning the cause of the flowing and ebbing of the sea	124
100.	Where the tides rise and fall in an unusual manner	127
101.	Wonders of the sea	128
102.	The power of the moon over-the land and the sea	ib.
103.	The power of the sun	129
104.	Why the sea is salt	ib.
105.	Where the sea is the deepest	130
106.	The wonders of fountains and rivers	131
107.	The wonders of fire and water united	138
108.	Of Maltha	138
109.	Of naphtha	139
110.	Places which are always burning	ib.
111.	Wonders of fire alone	141
112.	The dimensions of the earth	143
113.	The harmonical proportion of the universe	147

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