177 



phant and rhinoceros, the bamboo and palm from Hiu- 

 dostan ; the seal, &c. from Africa. 



These are mentioned as having been found in vari- 

 ous places in France, Italy, and other districts on the 

 continent. 



The remains of the Hippopotamus, peculiar to the 

 island of Sumatra, and Africa have been found in 

 France. 



Some of the lower hills of the Appennines contain 

 fossil bones of elephants, rhinoceri, whales, and dol- 

 phins.* 



Jussieu discovered in a stone, which he found in the 

 earth near the coal, at St. Chaumont en Lionnois, an 

 impression which bore the exact resemblance to the 

 fruit and seeds of the Abor-tristes of travellers. This 

 tree, it appears, grows only in the Canaries, and at 

 Malabar, on the coast of Coromandel.f 



The remains of the hyena, from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, are found associated with those of the elephant, 

 in the caverns of Gaylenreuth. 



Remains of this same animal (the hyena) are found 

 too, associated with those of bears, which, at present, 

 exist only in the north. 



" At what time," says M. Cuvier, ft was it, that 

 the elephants, and hyenas of the Cape, of the size of 

 our bears, lived in our climate, and were shaded by fo- 

 rests of palms, and in which they took shelter in ca- 

 verns, along with bears as large as our horsfts. )j f 



* Phillips's Geology, page 87 and 97. 

 f Parkinson's Organick Remains. 

 | Cuvier's Theory of the Earth. 



