512 Summit of the Pyrenees. — Fo^I Bwet, 



afccnd. At this time, I beheld the whole ftrufture of the mountains, the direftlon and in- 

 clination of the ftrata, the entire fucceffion of its layers ; every faft was manifeftcd to my 

 fight, and I completed my coUc£i:ion of marine bodies, which are contained in thefe moun- 

 tains. 



To the weft, as well as to the eaft, every part is fecondary, and full of fhellsi I fent one 

 of my pupils towards Vignamale, who brought me a comu ammonis. It is, as I have ven- 

 tured to affirm in my printed obfervations, an enormous fecondary mafs, fuperpofited on the 

 edifice of the chain, and which covers the fouthem part to the thicknefs of ten or twelve 

 kilometres, and is in length, forty. 



The moft perfeft among the remains of marine bodies which I found in thefe regions 

 is a perfeft ammonite, the exaft impreffion of a pedlinite, the prints of arterites, many 

 oyfters in the folid, caryophillites, and a multitude of madrepores. I fhall not enter 

 into more circumftantial details. The geologic and geographic refults ; the nature and in- 

 clination of the different banks ; their connexion with the rocks which fupport them ; the 

 ftate of vegetation ; the infefts obferved in thefe elevated regions ; — will form materials for 

 a memoir, which I intend to draw up, when in a lefs interrupted ftate, for the purpofe of 

 tranfmitting it to the National Inftitute. But I am defirous that the principal fafts Ihoald 

 be communicated to that body, with all the intereft of novelty, and I think them fufficiently 

 interefting to requeft your mediation in this refpeft. 



If you think it proper likewife to tranfmit them to the Council of Mines, I requeft that 

 you will permit me to give you the trouble of performing this office. 



XIII. 

 An AhflraEt of a Memoir upon the Foffil Bones of Animals. By Citizen CuFIER. * 



HE intention of the Author, in this memoir, was to colleft as much as it was in his power 

 all the foflll bones appertaining to each fpecies of animal, whether of fuch as he himfelf 

 had feen, or thofe of which he merely had a defcription in authors, to form or recompofe 

 the flceletons of thefe fpecies, and to compare them with thof: which now exift on the fur- 

 face of the globe, in order to determine their relation and differences. The following is a 

 feries of the fpecies to which his attention has been direfted. 



1. The animal which afforded the bones and teeth, called the bones and horns of the mam- 

 mouth, by the Ruffians, and inhabitants of Siberia. Similar foffile remains are alfo found 

 in Europe. It is a fpecies of elephant, refembling the elephant of Afia ; but from which it 

 differs in the alveola of its teeth, and its tufks being longer, the angle of its lower jaw 



• Communicated to the Societe d'Hiftoire Katurelle at Pari$. This abridgment is tranflated from the bul- 

 letin of the Soci(4d Fhiloraati^ue, No. i8, year VI. 



being 



