THE PEE-ADAMITE EARTH. 



guinea fowl, flamingo, horned owl, rail, corncrake, goose, loon, duck, 

 gull, &c. 518. Fossil salamander of (Eningen. 519. Flora, including 

 generic forms of liquidamber, willow, myrtle, anemone, plum-tree, 

 magnolia, holly, rhododendron, and azalea. 520. Large numbers of 

 Mammifers. 521. Bone caves cave of Gaylenreuth. 522. Re- 

 trospect. 523. Was creation at each period simultaneous. 

 524. Proofs in the affirmative. 525. Was there a progressively 

 increasing perfection of organisation. 526. Number of orders in the 

 respective strata. 527. Of genera in the orders. 528. Increase and 

 decrease of genera in the orders. 529. Orders in which the decrease 

 took place. 530. Orders of fishes. 



489. GREATER changes still were produced, as indeed might 

 be expected, in the Pyrenean basin. While its northern 

 shores remained nearly the same, the southern limits were 

 altogether changed. The sea, which in the preceding period 

 covered all the ground upon which, the Pyrenees stand, ex- 

 tending over part of Spain, was now driven back to the north, 

 and occupied only a very small basin near Bordeaux, marked 25 

 on the map. 



490. The same cause produced a considerable change in the shores 

 of the Mediterranean basin, which no longer communicated with 

 the Pyrenean basin, its western shores being driven back towards 

 the east. It is probable that its western shores commenced near 

 Nice, passing near Faudon and St. Bonnet, the site of the High 

 Alps, from which, however, that chain had not yet arisen. From 

 thence the shores of this sea were continued to Bex in Switzerland, 

 where all traces of them are lost. 



491. During this period, a considerable tract of the United 

 States, extending from 31 to 39 lat., which had been raised 

 above the waters since the end of the Cretaceous age, became 

 submerged, so that the sea probably extended without interrup- 

 tion from Paris to the southern part of North America. 



492. Corresponding changes took place in the land by the 

 elevation of the chain of the Pyrenees, which presented a barrier 

 to the progress of the ocean, and which left high and dry not 

 only the mountain range itself, but also the interval included 

 between that and the central plateau of France, so that Languedoc 

 and Provence, and the surrounding country, formed one great 

 continent. 



493. The appearance of marine species identical with those 

 deposited in the Anglo -Parisian basin in the seas by which the 

 southern states of America were submerged, and the discovery 

 of apes, rattlesnakes, and generic forms of marine animals 

 and plants, proper to warm climates in all parts of Europe, and 

 in the Isle of Sheppey, in England, prove that, at this epoch, 



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