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anb to find those of ruminating animals. Teeth which are In the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, and others in the possession of M. Faujas and 

 of M. Camper, appear to be of the size of those of the deer, and perhaps 

 belong to the same animal whose remains are found at Gibraltar. Mr. 

 John Hunter's account of these bones agrees with that of M. Cuvier ; but 

 Mr. Hunter states, that among these bones he discovered the os hyoides 

 of a horse. 



Spallanzani, from whom alone we have obtained a particular ae- 

 ount of the fossils of Cerigo, Memoir es de la Societl Italienne, Tom. in. 

 . 439), very loosely, and most probably erroneously, describes the de- 

 posit as a mountain, in the form of a truncated cone, which is named 

 the Mountain of Bones, and which he hyperbolically describes as be- 

 ing full, inside and outside, of animal remains. His description of the 

 state of the bones, and of the nature of the breccia, appears, however, to 

 agree exactly with those of the places already spoken of. With respect 

 to the nature of the bones, he has assumed, evidently on very indifferent 

 authority, that they are human ; but there does not appear any reason 

 for supposing that they are different from those which have been already 

 mentioned. 



The fossil bones of Arragon appear, from Mr. Bowles's account, to 

 be chiefly of herbivorous animals, of different sizes ; but these do not 

 appear to have yet been subjected to a correct anatomical examination. 

 Those which have been found in the Veronese, appear to belong to oxen 

 and stags. 



The conclusions which M. Cuvier thinks himself warranted to form, 

 respecting these phaenomena, are, " 1 . The osseous breccige have not been 

 produced by either a tranquil sea, or by a sudden irruption of the sea. 

 2. They are even posterior to the last resting of the sea on our conti- 

 nents, since no traces are found in them of any sea-shells, and they are 

 not covered by other beds. 3. The bones and the fragments of stone 

 fell in the clefts of the rocks, successively, and as they fell, became 

 united together by the accumulation of the spathose matter. 4. Almost 



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