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called Stramonte, there descends another hill, called 

 Torazza, which is lower, and, like the base of Pulg- 

 nasco, is composed of blue clay filled with marine 

 shells. It was in this kill, at about one hundred and 

 twenty feet above the Stramonte, that M. Cortesi, 

 attracted by one of the vertebrae which had been 

 brought him, made search, and discovered the almost 

 entire skeleton of this globiceps, a circumstance 

 which prompted him to all his subsequent re- 

 searches, of which we have seen so many happy 

 results. 



We must not enter into many details, but may state 

 that the head was almost entire, as also the lower 

 jaw ; even the bones of the ear were in situ. Each 

 jaw had twenty-eight teeth : but supposing that it 

 was ascertained, that some of the living species 

 had this precise number, yet this specimen would 

 still differ in certain essential and specific characters. 

 It had thirteen dorsal vertebrae. After considering 

 all the data, M. Cortesi inferred, with much ap- 

 pearance of truth, that this animal must have been 

 about thirteen feet long. We conclude the notice 

 of this wonderful animal of stone in the words of 

 Cuvier, " From all these considerations I cannot 

 but conclude, that this fossile Cetacea is of a species 

 different from all those of this genus, which, up to 

 the present time, are distinctly known." 



We now proceed to the fourth genus into which 

 we divided these lesser Cetae, viz. the Phoocena or 

 Porpoise Genus, 



