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position of the remains of quadrupeds that have been found in 

 some extensive quarries of stone and sand in the Fauxbourg St 

 Dominique at Montpellier, imbedded in a very recent marine 

 formation, which has been described by M. Marcel de Serres 

 in the fourth volume of the Linn. Trans, of Paris. 



>In the central beds of this deposit the remains of the elephant, 

 rhinoceros, hippopotamus, mastodon, ox, and stag, are found 

 intermingled with those of cetacea, dugong, or lamantins ; they 

 are more or less rolled, and are occasionally covered with ma- 

 rine shells. Beds of oysters also, (ostrea crassissima of La- 

 marck,) and barnacles, occur in horizontal and nearly parallel 

 strata, amid the marine sand, and show that this deposition has 

 taken place gradually, and at successive though short intervals, 

 rather than to have resulted from a sudden marine eruption. 

 The period of the deposition is supposed to have been that 

 which immediately preceded, and was terminated by, the last 

 grand aqueous revolution which formed the diluvium. 



To a similar and contemporaneous period with this upper 

 marine formation of Montpellier, he refers the bones of the ele- 

 phant, rhinoceros, he. with marine shells, (oysters and adher- 

 ing barnacles,) that have been found in certain parts of the Sub- 

 Apennine Hills, and also the bones of similar quadrupeds and 

 shells that occur in the crags of Norfolk and Suffolk. 



To the same period also he assigns the bones of the osseous 

 breccia of Gibraltar, Cette, and other fissures in caves along 

 the north coast of the Mediterranean ; and the accumulation of 

 the remains of bears, hyenas, &c. in the caves of Germany, 

 England, and France. He also attributes the same date to 

 the bones of similar animals found bedded in the sediments of 

 the antediluvian fresh water lake of the upper Val D'Arno. 



Observations on another Cavern at Lunel and one at Cadillac. 



We have been indebted to John Robison, Esq. for the fol- 

 lowing recent information respecting another cavern at Lunel, 

 and a new one discovered at Cadillac. 



A wine proprietor in Lunel, while enlarging his cellar, has 

 broken into a cavern containing many bones, and I believe 

 entire skeletons, some of lions I hear. A box of them will be 



