THE PRE-ADAMITE EAETH. 



synoptical table exclusive, however, of the Annulata, whose 

 numbers cannot be so certainly ascertained. 



Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom (exclusive of the Annulata} during the 

 Fifth PalcEozoic Peiiod. 



290. The seas during this period covered most probably the 

 space occupied by the chain of the Yosges mountains in Europe, 

 extending in a direction nearly N.N.E., through Rhenish 

 Bavaria and the Grand Duchy of Baden, into Saxony and 

 Silesia. The identity of the species of organic remains found in 

 these deposits in Silesia, England, and Russia, proves that the 

 seas of this period which covered the central part of England, 

 from Glamorganshire to Durham; communicated with those of 

 Russia, where they extended in the direction N.N.W. between 

 the Ural chain and Novogorod, from the 48 of latitude to the 

 Frozen Ocean. 



They also covered Tasmania, in the Southern Ocean ; and pro- 

 bably, therefore, extended over the entire surface of the earth 

 from the 43 of south to the 80 of north latitude. 



In the western part of continental Europe the outlines of 

 land and water did not undergo any remarkable change. The 

 great central plateau of France formed a large island, which 

 extended to the south as far as the Pyrenees, as is indicated by the 

 terrestrial plants now found in the deposits of Lod^ve, in the 

 department of Herault, in France. The remainder of continental 

 Europe consisted chiefly of a tract of land in Brittany. In 

 England, besides parts of Devonshire and Wales, which were 

 previously raised above the level of the ocean, a vast island was 

 formed, extending N. 5 "W. and S. 5 E., consisting of land forced 

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