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These species of creatures, whose races are now extinct, 

 M. CuviER divides into two classes — 1. Those which have 

 been determined by others ; and, 2. Such as have been settled 

 by himself. In the £rst he enumerates the following : 1 . The 

 Siberiaii animal which affords fossil ivory. 2. The mavi- 

 Viothy differing from the former chiefly in the size and points 

 of its grinders. 3. The long -headed rhinoceros. 4. That 

 animal of the tardigrade famili) called megatherium and me^ 

 galonipc. 5. An extinct species of large bear. 6. Another 

 species of the bear. 7. A carnivorous animal, intermediate 

 between the wolf and hyaena. 8. A creature a-kin to the 

 moosCy whose horns measure fourteen feet from tip to tip. 

 5. The gxtdX fossil tortoise. 10. The Maestricht crocodile. 

 1 1 . A sort of dragon. 12. An unknown kind of reptile or 

 cetaceous animal. — In the second class, the chief of which 

 have been disco veied in France, M.Cuvier places the follow-^ 

 ing species : 1 . The animal whose teeth, when impregnated 

 with copper, form the occidental turquoise. 2. A tapir, dif- 

 fering from that of South-America only in the form of its 

 grinders. 3. Another tapir, of a gigantic or elephantine size. 



4. A species of hippopotamos, of about the size of a hog. 



5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Six fossil skeletons of an unknown specie*, 

 between the rhinoceros and the tapir, from the plaster-quar- 

 ries in the neighbourhood of Paris. 1 1. A species of croco- 

 dile, considerably like that of the Ganges. 



But these are not all which the earth contains: there are 

 parts of skeletons of which M. Cuvier cannot speak with 

 equal assurance ; but of which, however, enough is known 

 to encourage a hope, that the list of zoological antiquities will 

 be soon lengthened. Of these, some resemble the bones, 

 1. Of the tiger. 2. Of an hyaena, or sea-calf. 3. Of the 

 fallow-deer. And others of uncertain characters ; as the pe- 

 trified bones, 1. Near Verona. 2 and 3. Two sorts in the 

 Rock of Gibraltar. 4. In the vicinity of Dax. 5. Near 

 Orleans. G. Near Aij^ and Cette. 7. In the islands of Dal- 

 matia, Sec. And, 8. All other uncertain bones found in the 

 peat-mosses of all parts of Europe and Asia. In the course 

 of a short time M. Cuvier hopes to determine the exact 

 place in the system to which these doubtful species are to be 

 referred. 



M. Cuvier soJicits information on these subjects froin all 

 parts of the world. He wishes to procure the hones them- 

 selves, or figures of them, or correct descriptions in words.--- 

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