THE FEE-ADAMITE EARTH. 



Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom (exclusive of Annulata) during tlu 

 Fifth Tertiary Period. 



Of the Mollusca and Annulata alone 606 species have been 

 catalogued and described. The fourth or Falunian period, as 

 M. D'Orbigny has named it, was closed, and the fifth or sub- 

 Apennine preceded by the geological convulsion, in which the 

 "Western Alps burst through the terrestrial crust and were elevated 

 to their present relief. 



512. The seas had again completely changed their beds in 

 Europe, and especially in France. The three seas, which in the 

 preceding period submerged the Ligerian, Pyrenean, and Medi- 

 terranean basins were now completely dried up, none remaining 

 except small patches of water on the borders of the Mediterranean, 

 in the departments, in the East Pyrenees, and in the Herault, 

 near Montpelier. It appears, therefore, that in France land and 

 water now assumed very nearly the forms which they possess at 

 present, but in Piedmont the province of Asti was still sub- 

 merged, as well as part of Italy, a tract round Vienna, and a 

 great part of Eastern Europe. 



513. Corresponding changes took place in the land. Switzer- 

 land, Savoy, the French departments of the Jura, the Ain, the 

 Isere, the Higher Alps, the Lower Alps, the Drome, Vaucluse, and 

 the Bouches du Rhone, which had been severally to a greater or 

 lesser extent submerged, during the Jurassic and Cretaceous 

 ages, and during the previous periods of the Tertiary age, were 

 now raised above the waters, and formed part of the general 

 continent. 



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