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considerable induration, including the bones of various animals, some of 

 which have the appearance of being human. These bones are of various 

 sizes, and lie in all directions, intermixed with shells of snails, fragments 

 of the calcareous rock, and particles of spar ; all of which materials are 

 still to be seen in their natural uncombined states, partially scattered over 

 the surface of the mountain. These having been swept by heavy rains, 

 at different periods, from the surface into the situations above described, 

 and having remained for a long series of years in those places of rest, ex- 

 posed to the penetrating action of water, have become enveloped in, 

 and cemented by, the calcareous matter which it deposits." It is right 

 here to observe, that Mr. Boddington ascertained that these bones had 

 been found fifty-seven feet above high-water mark. Phil. Trans. Vol. LX. 

 p. 414. 



This concreting matter may, in some places, be traced from the lowest 

 part of a deep perpendicular fissure up to the surface of the mountain. 

 In many parts of the rock this concretion exists, unmixed with bones of 

 any kind: and on the elevated parts of the mountain, masses are found, 

 consisting of snail-shells combined with a mass of opaque stalactitical 

 spar of a yellowish brown colour. This spar often incrusts the inner sur- 

 face of the hollow bones : sometimes the spathose crust is colourless, and 

 sometimes of a reddish colour. The concretion in which these bones 

 have been found, in Dalmatia, at Cette, Nice, Antibes, and Cerigo, agrees 

 very closely, in its situation, colour, and composition, with that of the 

 rock of Gibraltar. 



The fossil remains of animals, we have seen, -are found in the Vicentin 

 and Veronese, but it does not appear to be certain that the concretions 

 containing these bones, any more than those of Concud, are of the same 

 kind with those of Gibraltar, Dalmatia, &c. ; their connecting matter be- 

 ing of a different grain, and of another colour : nor has it been ascertained 

 that they are found in similar situations. 



Many of the bones which have been thus found, have been supposed 

 to be of human origin. Such was the opinion, at one time, of the Abbe 

 Fortis and of Dr. Hunter ; but further observation has shown, that this 



