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tioned by Spallanzani ; who, without sufficient authority, also conceived 

 these bones to be human. 



The accumulation of these fossils at Nice and at Antibes, have been 

 particularly noticed by M. Faujas. Ann. du Mus. Tom. x. p. 409, &c. 

 The rock which bears the castle of Nice, and in which these remains are 

 found, is in a manner the last extremity of the chain of Alps, which bifur- 

 cates a little, to form towards the West the mountains of Provence, and 

 towards the East those of Genes, which are themselves the beginning of 

 the chain of the Appennines. These fossils, according to Faujas, are also 

 found in the ruins of Cimiez, an ancient city, a little higher up than 

 Nice ; and there is niso reason to conclude, from his description, that the 

 mountain of Montulban, Villetranche, and the greater part of those which 

 surround the plain of Nice, are covered with a reddish ochry earth, 

 similar to that which abounds in the Breccia, which contains the bones. 

 The city of Antibes is separated from that of Nice only by a bay about 

 four leagues wide, which appears to be surrounded by hills of the same 

 nature. 



At Cette also, at the beginning of the canal of Languedoc, between 

 Montpellier and Agde, on the Mediterranean, these fossils are also found. 

 The mountain of Cette is an isolated cone, which is connected with the 

 land by a very narrow neck of sand. Very lately, M. Ram passe has dis- 

 covered similar fossil remains in Corsica. These are at some distance 

 to the North of Bastia, at about half a league from the sea, and at about 

 a hundred fathoms above its level. 



Cueva-rubia, a hill near to Concud, in Arragon, appears also to con- 

 tain fossil bones; but the cementing matter differs from that of the pre- 

 ceding fossils both in its grain and colour. Fossil bones are also found at 

 Romagnano, in the valley of Pantena and of Ronca ; but these, like those 

 of Concud, seem to differ from those previously mentioned, in the nature 

 of the connecting matter. Mr. Bowles believed that he had found here 

 the bones of the legs and thighs of men and women ; but Cuvier ob- 

 serves, it must require great practice in researches of this kind, to make 

 such a distinction, in fossil bones, almost always mutilated. 



