This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from January 28 to February 6 1846 while traveling from Montgomery to Mobile (Alabama) via the Alabama River on the steamer Amaranth. He stops at Centerport and Clairborne, with overland excursions to Macon and Clarksville. He then continues his journey to Mobile on the Amaranth. The index is located in the back of the notebook on pages 113-115 and 6 uncounted pages. Notes are in pencil and ink and include field sketches.

Content warning: Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence, based on both his own observation, by reviewing other people's works, by correspondence, asking questions and analyses. The language used in this index is historical, can be discriminatory and may cause offence.

Transcription note:
In the index, an X, ?, or G. is written in the left margin to mark certain entries. A date noted in the left margin has been inserted at the beginning of the appropriate se

Index
Jan[uary] 28th 1846
p. 1 G. Geology of Al[abama] notes for - limest[one] Clarke Co[unty] [‘County’ interlined]
p. 1 G. - [Geology] Bluff Montgomery - fine gravel
p. 3 X Steamer down the river - unpunctual
p. 3 X Slave market Montgom[ery]. V[irginia] blacks
p. 3 X Episcopal clergy income of, Hawkes [sic Hawks]
p. 5 X - [Episcopal] salaries of Bishops
p. 5 X - [Episcopal] B[isho]p Wheatley [sic Whately] lowered church
p. 5 X Migratory habits of Southerners
p. 5 X Health, exercise why not taken, heat,
p. 5 X Scenery of Alab[ama] R[iver]. canes - leafless
p. 5 X Birds not alarmed at Steamer
p. 7 G. Montgom[ery] Washingt[on] Vernon
p. 7 G. Geology, great gravel bed, cretac[eous]
p. 9 X Scenery verdure not more than Hants [sic Hampshire]
p. 9 ? Intellect in U.S. bolder, Eng[land]. maturer
p. 9 X Smoking of young women
p. 9 X Episcopal church looking to negros
p. 9 ? Architecture Ch[rist]. Ch[urch]. Cincinnati
p. 9 X Episcopal church wear black et cetera
p. 9 X War anti English feeling
p. 11 X Centreport soapst[one] bluff cretaceous
p. 11 ? Cobb - Alligator Gar Al[abama]. R[iver].
p. 11 ? Al[abama]. R[iver]. Gum tree
p. 11 G X Selma Geology, cliff
p. 13 G. Geology cretac[eous] [? marls] Selma Cahaba
p. 13 G. - [Geology] White Bluff
p. 13 X English Ambassadors to U.S.
p. 15 X Slavery Al[abama] old provided for
p. 15 X Negros, when converted good Xtians [sic Christians]
p. 15 X - [Negros] powers of perception great
p. 15 X Slaves K[entucky] not imported separately
p. 17 X - [Slaves] how they might be diminish[ed]
p. 17 X Kentucky law ag[ainst] import[ation] of slaves
p. 17 X Abolitionism good for white race, by extirpating negro
p. 19 X No need of [‘white’ deleted] blacks in S[outh]. for whites (overseers) live there
p. 19 X Rivers cannot be low for Geology & good for steamer
p. 19 X English Ambassadors to U.S. prejudices
p. 19 X Episcopal[ians] of U.S. know English B[ish]ops
p. 19 X White waiters waited on by blacks
p. 19 ? Distances of places - 5 dinners
p. 21 G. Geology, White bluff thinly stratif[ied]
p. 21 G. - [Geology White bluff] fossils in terebrat[ulina].
p. 21 G. - [Geology] Centreport fossils - covering of gravel
p. 23 G. Bridgeport - q[uer]y dip with river's fall?
p. 23 G. Prairie Bluff, fossils - marls
p. 25 G. - [Prairie Bluff] compared to Centerport
p. 27 X Episcopal church in colonial days
p. 27 X - [Episcopal church] must now therefore be ascetic
p. 27 X Al[abama] good S[outh]. C[arolina] families settted in
p. 27 X Spoilt children, Penitentiary
p. 27 X - [Spoilt] not spoil by republicanism
p. 29 X Children spoilt Mrs. McClarty [sic MacClarty]
p. 29 X - [Children] not all due to negro training, cause of
p. 29 X Puseyism effect on science, Romanism
p. 31 X Episcopalian "The Church"
p. 31 X “Going to Texas” at Claiborne vis [a vis]
p. 31 X Greener grass in Al[abama]
p. 31 X Politeness in U.S. spite of Anti English feeling [‘feeling’ interlined]
p. 31 X - [Politeness] not so in Engl[and]
[January 30th 1846]
p. 31 X Sunset at Claiborne, rain
p. 31 X Robin intoxicated by Pride of India
p. 33 G. Geology, Claiborne Bluff section
p. 33 G. - [Geology Claiborne] rotten limest[one]. Scutella
p. 35 G. - [Geology Claiborne] old landing Claiborne Dillets [sic Dellet’s] Plantation [‘ation’ interlined]
p. 37 X Claiborne Walsh’s Appeal
p. 37 X Indian Corn, Cott[on] [? &] all ground
p. 37 X Mr Blount - Equality - Coachman
p. 37 X - [Mr Blount] Repudiation Al[abama] debt
p. 37 X Log house, the old crysalis [sic chrysalis]
p. 39 G. Geology Dillets [sic Dellet’s] hill - Talbots - [hill] fossils
p. 41 G. - [Geology] Nummulite limest[one] f[ormation] Bettis's
p. 41 G. - [Geology Nummulite limestone] balls of hydrate of iron in
p. 41 G. - [Geology] White limest[one]. goes deep down below present bed at Claiborne, Blount
p. 43 X Maize failed last y[ea]r. owing to heat
p. 43 X H. Couper's brother, cotton seed for oil
p. 43 X Vestiges of Creation: popular in Al[abama].
p. 43 X Equality, my driver at table!
p. 43 X Alabama debt, 16 million, taxes repealed!
p. 45 X Albama debt, repudiation near
p. 45 X Abolition not heard of, Petitions
p. 45 X Emigrat[ion] to Texas blacks & whites
p. 45 X Slaves attached to masters
p. 45 X Abolitionists would be hung
p. 47 X “Cooning a log”
p. 47 X Encampment on Chocktaw C[reek]
p. 47 X Capital leaving Al[abama]
p. 47 X Dirt eaters, Claiborne
p. 47 X Heat Thermometer 80 in shade Jan[uary]
p. 47 X Old settlers going to Texas
p. 47 X - [Old settlers] offered to sell me his land
p. 49 G. Geology Woodlands Mr Blounts
p. 49 G. - [Geology Woodlands] Dillets [sic Dellet’s] hill Talbot's hill
p. 49 G. - [Geology Woodlands] Pigeon C[reek] red loam superimpos[ed] on Eocene limest[one]
p. 51 G. Bettis’s field nummulite limest[one].
p. 51 G. - [Bettis’s field] fossils, list of
p. 53 G. - [Bettis’s] Knoll of 'rotten' cream-col[oured] limest[one]
p. 53 G. Suggsville nummulite limest[one]
p. 55 G. - [Suggsville] near Mr [? Wests] Eocene with shells
p. 55 G. West[? ’s], hill one side nummulite
p. 57 X Al[abama] injured by emigration
p. 57 ? Webster's D. N.Y, case lost
p. 57 ? Law business increased in Mobile
p. 57 ? - [Law business] sign of distress.
p. 57 X General Jackson idolized in Al[abama]
p. 57 G. Iron sand of Al[abama] like Aiken Georgia
p. 57 X Jackson Gen[eral] fight with Indians
p. 57 ? Tillandsia dies if tree girdled
p. 58 G. Prairies bald on knolls of Nummulitic limest[one]. Cedar hummocks
p. 58 G. - [Prairies bald] Government reservat[ions] for Cedars
p. 58 G. Geology relat[ion] of the 2 tertiary form[ations]
p. 58 G. - [Geology] Pigeon C[reek] Dees Bridge.
p. 60 G. Ridge & Water shed betw[een] Al[abama] & Tombigby [‘bigby’ interlined] [sic Tombigbee]
p. 60 G. - [Ridge] iron sand in like Wealden
p. 60 G. Nummulite limest[one] Suggsville Bettis’s
p. 62 G. Macon, Al[abama] geology
p. 62 X - [Macon] fight with Indian there
p. 62 G. Mr Wm Pickett on localities of fossils
p. 64 G. Geology Section to show between Claiborne, Macon & Clarkesville
p. 66 G. - [Geology] localities of Koch's zeuglodon
p. 66 G. - [Geology localities] given me by W. Pickett
p. 66 G. - [Geology] Zeuglodon found in Prairie ground
p. 66 G. Red sand form[ation] & clay section of
p. 68 X Slaves sale of, price of Griffs
p. 68 X Change of property in Al[abama]
p. 68 G. Geology nummulite limest[one]
p. 68 G. - [Geology] bald prairies, zeuglodon
p. 70 G. - [Geology] Eocene limest[one] E[ast]. of Clarksville
p. 70 G. - [Geology] Hydrate of iron with bivalve
p. 72 X Lands exhausted in 7 y[ea]rs Al[abama]
p. 72 Tillandsia on dry land
p. 72 X Worn out land bought & improved by plodding yankees
p. 72 West Point, aristocratic
p. 72 X War 1/2 million w[ould]. volunteer for
p. 72 X - [War] Gen[eral] Jackson ag[ainst]. Indians
p. 72 Artesian Wells mills worked by
p. 72 ? Pickett W. servants to European Jews
p. 72 ? Gen[eral] Jackson raised U.S.
p. 74 G. Iron nodules, nummulite limest[one]
p. 74, 76 G. Zeuglodon various localities of given by W. Pickett
p. 78 G. Clarkesville section Geology
p. 78 G. Creagh's section at - nummulite
Febr[uary] 3rd
p. 80 ? Monied Aristocracy. W. Pickett
p. 80 X Warfare with Indians & Texans
p. 80 X Texas celebrat[ed] 4th July
p. 80 X Magnolia in all the creeks
p. 80 G. Geology Section at Creagh's C[reek].
p. 80 G. - [Geology Section] at Mill, nummulite
p. 82 ? Repudiation attempt to justify
p. 82 ? Equality, negros dispatch them with bowie's
p. 82 G. Creagh's W. Pickett specimens in boxes
p. 84 G. Lava of Koch ferrug[inous] sandst[one].
p. 84 G. Nautilus chamber casts of regarded by Koch as Zeuglodon
p. 84 G. Chert of Pt. of Al[abama] site of ?
p. 84 G. Iron Stone with shells, found by me
p. 84 X All thing are moving, Court houses
[Note: The above index line is on p. 86.]
p. 86 X Roughing it in Al[abama] by canvassers
p. 86 X Sleeping with 2 others
p. 86 ? Texas change of linens
p. 86 X Sale of slaves, old negro sold cheap.
p. 86 X - [Sale of] slaves not humiliated in air
p. 88 X Debt Al[abama] W. Pickett - bad security.
p. 88 X Snakes in summer Al[abama] dangerous.
p. 88 X Land in Al[abama] poor, worse in N[ew]. Eng[land]
p. 88 X Drunkenness formerly worse in Al[abama]
p. 88 X - [Drunkenness] diminished in Al[abama] & fortunes
p. 88 X Briars in Al[abama] in summer
p. 88 ? West P[oint]. Aristocracy - Pickett
p. 88 X England, compliment from prized
p. 88 X Money wanted in elect[ions] in Al[abama] Polk
p. 90 G. Geology, Creagh's nummulite limest[one].
p. 90 X Drinking in Al[abama] very great
p. 90 G. Geology, section at Well, Macon
p. 92 ? - [Geology] Ridge betw[een] Macon & Clarkesville
p. 92 G. - [Geology] Ravine new betw[een] M. & Woodsville [‘ville’ interlined] [sic Woodlands]
p. 92 G. - [Geology Ravine new] section of upper form[ation] in vis [a vis]
p. 92 G. Turner near Wests, Zeuglodon
p. 94 ? Blount attacking Jackson, threatened
p. 94 ? “Where evil men bear sway.
p. 94 X Law ag[ainst] dwelling in L[ouisana] why migrating
p. 94 X Negros Southerners invest money in & have none for factories
p. 94 X War, whip the British.
p. 94 & 98 X I am of no church.
p. 96 G. Geology - Clarkesville - Gryphaea vomer [‘mer’ interlined]
p. 98 X Methodist Ch[urch]. Claiborne
p. 98 ? Election no personal violence at
p. 98 X Repudiat[ion] Al[abama] Democracy & new setters
Febr[uary] 5th 1846
p. 100 X Texas annexed list G[reat] B[ritain] sh[ould] get it
p. 100 X White body servants Pickett.
p. 100 X Negros nursed by whites when ill.
p. 100 X Distances Thermom[eter] 80 Jan[uary] 30.
p. 100 X Birds, plants, Martin Houses
p. 101 to 111 G. Geology Letter to Silliman Jan[uary] on Al[abama] - Eocene, Zeuglodon, nummulite
p. 102 X Equality in a Slave State
p. 102 X Country or land is democratic in U.S.
p. 102 X Cities in U.S. aristocratic (commerce)
p. 102 X Houstonia on Claiborne Bluff
p. 102 X Dress costs 4 times London price
p. 102 X Charges of Cracker women in Al[abama]
p. 102 X Harriet Wilson with cuts cheap
p. 102 X Cheap public[ations] Eugene Sue
p. 104 G. Geology. Eocene Claiborne cliff shells in diff[erent] beds
p. 106 G. [Geology] successive beds Claiborne & their fossils
p. 108 G. Clairborne cliff, double form[ation] of
Febr[uary] 6th 1846
p. 110 X Albama river last part above Mobile, drowned look, of low country
p. 110 X Claiborne cliff & pine torches


p. 110 X Amaranth Steamer
p. 110 X Potato disease owing to Manooth [sic Maynooth] grant [‘grant’ interlined]
p. 112 X Toleration of Jews & Romanists in U.S.
p. 112 X Negros & settlers leaving Alabama
p. 112 X - [Negros] risen in value - Debt of Al[abama]
p. 112 X Mobile health of