This brown leather notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes in pencil in France, Portugal, and Spain with detailed sketches and drawings. The cover is plain, and the index is glued to the back.

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, Orthes to Berens, section
p. 3, [Orthes] tertiary
p. 25,23,3,5,11 Ripple Mark,
p. 11, Housse, marl pits
p. 5, Experiments on ripple marks
p. 7, Fucoidal sandstone
p. 8, Peyrehorade to Orthes, sect[ion]
p. 12, Bayonne to Biaritz, sect[ion]
p. 12, Pont do Lau, section
p. 17, Currents, depos[itio]n by
p. 18, Tides at Bayonne
p. 18, Bar at teh mouth of the River Adour cut through
p. 22, Etangs, size, depth [et cetera]
p. 25, Adour, ripple mark at its mouth
p. 27, [Adour], tides in the river
p. 28, Biarits, sections
p. 34, Bidart, sect[ion] clays + marls
p. 36, Fault n[ea]r vill[age] of Gatari
p. 38, Gitari, section near,
p. 42, St. Jean de Luz, sect[ion]
p. 44, Dax to Bayonne, sect[ion]
p. 46,57, Review of changes, fast + slow
p. 46, Desert, cause of its sterility
p. 46, Shifting sands, bar at Bayonne shifts often
p. 48, Dax, microscopic shells
p. 48, [Dax] Ammonites, bones of whales, sharks teeth [et cetera] at
p. 49, [Dax] section of faluns
p. 50, Faluns sect[ion] at Fort + Garry
p. 52, Landes, sect[ion] made by boring in St. Paul des Landes
p. 52, Dax, strata seen in valleys
p. 54, Valley of the Luy, section
p. 58, Pouillon to Doazin, sect[ion]
p. 59, Chalk, of Pyrenees
p. 60, Chalk, on the Adour n[ea]r Dax
p. 60, St. Lon quarry
p. 62, St. Lon coal + lignite sect[ion]
p. 68, Dax, St. Paul beds
p. 70, Cabanes, St. Paul, n[ea]r Dax
p. 72, S[outh] of France
p. 72, Farm of Mandillot, sect[ion]
p. 72, Pit at d'Angounade, d[itt]o
p. 74, Ancient cliff
p. 76, Dax spring
p. 78, Cancares, quarry sections
p. 79, Insects in Gum
p. 80, Aviero, river barred up
p. 80, Bordeaux, rise of tides
p. 81, Le Teste basin silting up
p. 84, Bordeaux, waste of land how compensated
p. 84, La roque, red earth
p. 84,85, Ripple, Gironde
p. 87,85, Gironde, island in
p. 86,87, Tides Gironde
p. 87, Pauline, sect[ion]
p. 87,89,90 Blaye, Calc gross
p. 88, Estuaries