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nant, hardly of the size of a deer. These, from there not having been 

 any horns or branches found, and from the lower head of an os femoris, 

 which he possesses, resembling that of the antelope more than that of the 

 stag or sheep, he is disposed to refer to the antelope. In the propriety of 

 this, he is confirmed by the appearance of the teeth, and of the other 

 bones which he possesses. 



It does not appear that any remains of any of the class of rosores (ron- 

 geurs, mammiferes onguicules sans dents canines ou laniaires) have been 

 found in this rock, except by M. Adrien Camper, who has two halves of a 

 jaw, and some other bones, which appear to be referable to the genus 

 Lepus y but which are too small for the common rabbit. Having ascer- 

 tained that the remains of a species of Lagomys exist in the breccia of 

 Corsica, and that the jaw-bones were about the same size with the one 

 found at Gibraltar, he proposes, as an interesting object of research, the 

 ascertaining whether traces of any animal of this species are discoverable 

 in the breccise of the rock of Gibraltar. 



In the breccia of Cette, M. Cuvier discovered the bones of five different 

 species of animals ; those of the common wild rabbit, and which were 

 most numerous ; of a rabbit one third smaller than the preceding ; of an 

 animal resembling the field-mouse ( mus arvalis}, of a bird of the size of 

 the common wag-tail ; and of the common adder. It is, however, by no 

 means certain that the fossil rabbits were in their exterior similar to ours ; 

 since those differences, which mark the rabbit of Egypt and of North 

 America as distinct species, are not discoverable in their osteology. 



Learning that M. Gouan possessed an os femoris from Cette, which 

 had been said to be human, M. Cuvier examined it, and found that it had 

 belonged to some ruminant about the size of a deer, and perhaps to the 

 same animal with that whose remains are found at Gibraltar. 



The shells found here were of three sorts, two helices and a pupa ; 

 but no trace whatever of any sea-shell or of any marine animal, contrary 

 to the opinion of M. Faujas. Annales du Mus. Tom. x. p. 410. 



The bones contained in the ossiferous brecciae of Nice and Antibes are, 



