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school of the department of Gard. But the most important and valua- 

 ble collection of these fossils is that which was formed, at a vast expense, 

 by the Count de Gazzola, of Verona, who had a considerable number of 

 these fishes engraved, many of which he had published, in three parts 

 of a most splendid work, the continuation of which was prevented by 

 the successes of Bonaparte, who, in the words of M. Faujas, " se con- 

 certa avec se savant, pour acquerir de gre a gre ce cabinet unique," 

 p. 1 10. In consequence, it now forms a part of the National Museum 

 of Natural History at Paris. 



Near to Schio, in the Vincentino, similar fish are found with echi- 

 nites and shells, in a grey calcareous stone, mixed with, clay and quart- 

 zose sand. Small chetodons are also found in a brown bituminous argillo- 

 calcareous schist, belonging to a coal-mine, .not yet dug, at Monteviale, 

 near to Vicenzo. At Salzeo, situated at the foot of that part of the Alps 

 which joins to the Tyrolean mountains, are found similar fish with those 

 of Monteviale, in a black pyritous fragile schist: in which are also 

 observable the impressions of marine plants, of polypodies, and of com- 

 pressed wood. Small fish are also found at Tolmezzo, a small town of 

 Frioul, and at Cerigo, in the Archipelago, in a fissile stone resembling 

 that of Vestena Nuova. At Alessano, a province of Otranto, small 

 fishes are found, in a very white calcareous silt. In the Island of Lesina, 

 in Dalmatia, fossil fish are also found, with the polish still visible on 

 their scales, in a hard, sonorous, and foliated reddish lime-stone. At 

 Scapezzano, and in Monto Alto, in the duchy of Urbin, and in the pro- 

 montory of Focara, in the same duchy, similar fossils are also found ; and 

 in the latter place, they are said to be mixed, in a confused state, with 

 rounded and rubbled porous lava. At Stabia, to the West of Castella- 

 mare, Scipio Breislak found, in a calcareous fissile stone, impressions of 

 one particular species of fish only, called at Naples Sbaraglioni, Spams 

 guarraccinus. And the same naturalist was informed, by M. Fortis, that 

 the icthyolites of Pietra Roja, near Cerreto, have two particularities : 

 the one is, that the fish, on splitting the stone, is not divided, but remains 



