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either of shells, sea-weeds, or the skeletons of fishes, 
amphibea, and other animals, not only at their feet, 
but in their girdles, and near their very summits. 
Sea-shells of various descriptions are discovered in 
the large fragments of loose stones, which lie scat- 
tered round the base, and extend far up the rocky 
side of Glyder-var, or the Eminence of Tempests, a 
terrific mountain on the banks of Lyn Peris, near 
Capel Carig, in North Wales. 
Snowdon, the monarch of the British Alps, whose 
lofty summit rises three thousand five hundred and 
seventy-one feet above the level of the Irish Sea, 
also exhibits similar indications. Marine shells, or 
medals, commemorating the Deluge, as Cuvier ele- 
gantly denominates them, are found bedded in the 
slate of which the mountain is composed. 
The long ranges of sand-hills which skirt both 
slopes of the Appenines, through almost the entire 
length of Italy, contain every where perfectly well 
preserved shells; these are often found retaining their 
colour, and even their natural pearl-like polish, and 
several resemble those still found in our own seas. 
Leaves of trees, and the trunks of bituminous wood, 
mixed with the bones of fish and other marine ani- 
mals, are also brought from the same range of moun- 
tains ; while on the sides of Mount Sarchio, between 
Rome and Naples, shells are discovered, mixed with 
