This brown leather notebook features Lyell's copy hand throughout, many detailed sketches, Dover, Calais, mention of Auvergne, Fault Shakespeare's Cliff, Geological observations at Dover, Calais and on road south from Paris to Riom. The inside cover notes his address, "Mr. C Lyell, No 9 Crown Office Row, Temple".

The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the beginning and end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates using the platform Transkribus. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and contractions have been expanded using brackets []. When writing is unclear, and transcription is not possible, this is denoted using [...]. Quotation marks are Lyell's own notation for ditto, as is the abbreviation "d'o". The inclusion of [sic] indicates the misspelling of a word is deliberate and taken from the notebook.

p. 1, Dover
p. 7, Calais- sand dunes
p. 16, Paris. Calc. gross. section
p. 19, Calabria
p. 20, Butte of Poissonniere
p. 21, Sicily - marles of Paris contorted
p. 23, Plastic clay coal
p. 24, Seebap. shells
p. 29, rocks on progress (Dusgate)
p. 30, Plant that grows in hot water
p. 30, Meuliere + chalk flints identical
p. 32, Belleville n.r Paris (Section)
p. 32, Fontainebleau (D'o)
p. 33, Nemours D[itt]o
p. 33-36, Border of Paris basin at Nemours where round chalk flints
p. 35, Montargis, beds of Pl[astic] clay ? on chalk
p. 35, Potamides same as Cirithium
p. 35, Mouliere made out of calc. siliceux
p. 36, Banks of Loire
p. 37, Pouilly (Section)
p. 38, La charite
p. 39, Ichthyosaurus in Hill of Pouilly
p. 41, Nevers (section)
p. 41, Nevers oolite like chlorite chalk
p. 44, Hill of Bruignon
p. 45, Allier [sic] N. extremity of Limagne basin
p. 46, St Pierre
p. 47, Moulins
p. 48, St Imbert
p. 51, St Pourcain
p. 60, Alleir turned by a land-slip
p. 63, River Gadois
p. 65, Allier turned by a land-slip
p. 68, Mayet d' Ecole industl. limest.
p. 70, Gannat
p. 72, Quarry of La Battise
p. 78, Butte d' Aigueperse
p. 80, - Montpensier
p. 82, Gannat to Riom
p. 88, Butte d'Mirabelle?
p. 91, Large granite bolder on marle