DOMAIN V. CALCAREOUS. 



discovered by microscopic eyes, that even the 

 insects found in amber are not of the European 

 kinds, but belong to distant regions. In the 

 comparative anatomy of fossile bones, the cele- 

 brated Cuvier greatly distinguished himself, and 

 by patience and research has nearly completed 

 three skeletons of those found at Montmartre. 

 For they belong to three kinds of animals, of the 

 same genus, but of very different stature ; one 

 only attaining the size of a hare, the second of 

 a hog, while the third reaches the size of the 

 horse. Those animals approached the nature of 

 the rhinoceros, the hog, and the American ta- 

 pir, but were more nearly allied to the latter. 

 Being herbivorous, as appears from the teeth, 

 easily distinguishable from those of carnivorous 

 animals, their bones seem to have been rolled 

 down by the river to the spot where they are 

 now found. 



shells. It might be imagined, that there is a kind of 

 artful malice, if the expression may be pardoned, 

 in the bosom of the goddess Nature, which 

 allows human theory to sport for some time, 

 and then brings out her stores for its destruction. 

 It was long conceived, that fossile shells were 

 confined to limestone, and fossile bones to gyp- 

 sum, till very lately most of the sea-shells, found 

 in the highest state of preservation in a bed of 



