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Notice of Dr. MantelVs Medals of Creation. 



The following table, showing how large a portion of the globe 



has unquestionably originated from this source, will probably ap- 

 pear very surprising to those who have not examined the evi- 

 dence. The order is from below ascending, and the enumera- 

 tion begins with the Silurian system, which follows immediately 

 after the early slaty rocks, and the entire series occupies in Eng- 

 land, as well as in other countries, many thousand feet. 



ROCKS COMPOSED WHOLLY OR PARTLY OF ANIMAL REMAINS. 



Strata. 

 Trilobite schist, 



Dudley limestone, 



Shelly limestone, 



Prevailing fossils. 

 Trilobites and shells, 



Corals, crinoidea, shells and trilobites. 

 Products, spiriferas, &c. 



Formations. 

 Silurian system. 



Mountain limestone, Corals and shells, 



Encrinital marble, 

 Mussel band, 

 Ironstone nodules, 

 Lias shales and clays, 

 Limestone, 



Lily-shaped animals and shells. 

 Fresh-water muscles. 

 Trilobites, insects, and shells. 

 Pentacrinites, reptiles, fishes, 

 Terebratulae and other shells. 



Carboniferous system 



Lias. 



Lias conglomerates, Fishes, shells, corals. 

 Gryphite limestone, Shells, principally gryphites. 



Limestone, 

 Stonesfield slate, 



Terebratulae and other shells, 

 Shells, reptiles, fishes, insects. 



Inferior oolite. 



Pappenheim schist, Crustacea, reptiles, fishes, insects. 



Bath-stone, 



Limestone, 

 Coral rag, 



Shells, corals, crinoidea, reptiles, fishes. 

 Cephalopoda?, principally ammonites. 

 Corals, shells, echini, ammonites. 



Bradford limastone, Crinoidea, shells, corals, cephalopoda. 



Ammonites, trigoniae, and other shells. 



Portland oolite, 

 Purbeck and Sussex 



marble, 



Wealden limestone, 



Fresh-water shells, Crustacea, rep- ) Txr , , 



tiles, fishes, \ Wealden. 



Cyclades, and other fresh-water 

 shells, Crustacea, reptiles, fishes. 



Tilgate grit, some bods, Reptiles, fishes, fresh-water shells. 



Famngdon gravel, Sponges, corals, echini, and shells, Shanklin sand. 



Jasper and chert, 

 Green sand, 

 Chalk, 



Shells, sponges, and animalcules. 



Fibrous zoophytes. 



Corals, infusoria, echini, shells, fishes, Chalk, 



Maastricht limestone, 

 Hippurite limestone, 



Corals, shells, ammonites, belem- 

 nites, and other cephalopoda, 

 reptiles, 



Shells, principally hippurites. 

 Hard chalk, some beds, Echini and belemnites. 



Sponges, and other fibrous zoo- 

 phytes, infusoria and spines of 

 zoophytes, echini, shells, corals, 

 crinoidea. 



Chalk. 



Flints, 



Limestone, 

 Nummulite rock, 

 Septaria, 

 Calcaire grossier, 



Fresh-water shells, 



Nummulites. 



Nautili, turritellae and other shells. 



Shells and corals. 



Tertiary. 



