OF FOSSILS. 



called Cuina. He fays, that after heavy rains, 

 large inafics of it are waflied into the rivers. 

 The fpecimcns examined by Koflcllc arc faid to 

 refemble ambergrife in their odor and prin- 

 ciple qualities *. Long ago, Rumphus makes 

 mention of a tree called nanarius, containing a 

 juice fimilar to ambergrife. Lately, however, in 

 Kngland an opinion has obtained, that this Uib- 

 Aance is the excrement of a cetaceous filh. Ob- 

 fcrvations made on the phy fetor macrocepha- 

 ius,(thc fpermaceti whale) have given rile to this 

 Idea, as the excrement in the intcftincs of that 

 animal, is found on diileclion pcrfeclly harden- 

 ed, and containing the beak of the repia oclo- 

 podia, on which it feeds, and in every refpecl 

 refembling the ambcrgrife of commerce, 



5 c L x n I . S peeler of Fofflls mixed mccba nlcally. 



Or foflils mechanically mixed, that fall un- 

 der confidcration in the liril appendix, we have 

 conilituted four genera only,(j 91.) their fpecies, 

 however, are numerous. 



\ clxiv. The federal Species cxprcffcd by the 

 Fvnnulcv of Letters. 



LET J denote fait, / earth, m metals, and i 

 phlogillic fubftances; and let the fama local 



valua 



* HiA. del plantci dc la Cuyanc, 177^. 



