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at Wrmpassing, afterwards between Teusch-Altenberg, Edels- 

 thal, and Hainburg, from where it crosses the Danube to The- 

 ben, and, lying along the granitic ridge, it is found again at 

 Ballenstein, at Borostyanko, at Pernek, at Breitenbrunn, at 

 Blasenstein, Elesko, and to the east of Hradystie. From that 

 village, and from Nadas, it extends to Csejta and Neustadt, 

 upon the borders of the Wag near Bohuslariez, around Beczko 

 and Trentschin, at Orecho, Sztrezezenitz, and between Hraboo- 

 ka and Pucho. It forms the highest hills between the valleys 

 of the Wag and the Nyitra, and is covered partly by secon- 

 dary and tertiary rocks, a fact well known from the obser- 

 vations of Beudant, and confirmed by those of Lill. After 

 having followed this formation, step by step, we had still 

 an opportunity of studying it more to the north at Preeven, 

 Illova, Warin, Bela, and Tyrhova. We saw it also extending 

 behind Kubin, Chlebna, and Habowka ; and a branch ter- 

 minates on the northern side of the Tatra, from the west of 

 Koscielisko to Zifjar ; in the mean time another unites itself 

 with the limestone south of the Tatra, and of the superior val- 

 ley of the Wag, and extends to Newsohl, where we saw it on a 

 former tour, and where others have described it. 



It is true that, in this extensive calcareous chain, we observed 

 fossil organic remains only between Warin and Tishova, around 

 the Tatra, and in the country of Neusohl ; but the same is the 

 case with the Austrian Alps ; and the magnesian rocks, full of 

 small rents, seem far less favourable to the preservation of petri- 

 factions than the complete dolomites. On the other hand, these 

 fossils correspond with those of the limestone of the Alps, being 

 belemnites, certain ammonites, certain smooth or folded terebra- 

 tulites, encrinites, and zoophytes. In this way we have the 

 identity and continuance of the same formation with the same 

 fossils, and that from Vienna to the Tatra. Now, we ask 

 (Mr Lill and I), are not we entitled to compare some sections 

 of the Carpathian limestone ridge with others taken among the 

 calcareous alpine chain, and to use in this way Carpathian lo- 

 calities, or sections where the strata have been but slightly de- 

 ranged, to clear up in the Alps the nature of tracts, where great 

 catastrophes or upheavings have disturbed and confused the 

 true series of deposites ? The answer to our question cannot be 



