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stone rocks of Antibes, near Nice, also costain os- 

 seous breccia, in which Cuvier found remains of rumi- 

 nating animals, apparently the same as those of Nice. 



4. Corsica. The limestone rocks containing the osse- 

 ous breccia^occur near Bastia, and agree in all their cha- 

 racters with that of Gibraltar. The osseous remains are 

 principally of smaller quadrupeds, but they do not, like 

 those of Cette, belong to species now living in the sur- 

 rounding country ; for Cuvier discovered there the head 

 of an animal nearly resembling the lagomys alpinus, a 

 species which inhabits the wildest and most mountainous 

 regions of Siberia, immediately under the snow line. He 

 also found enormous quantities of the bones of a species 

 of gnawer, somewhat resembling the mus terrestris of 

 Linnaeus, and of another very nearly allied to the water- 

 rat. 



5. Dalmatia. The breccia is found throughout a great 

 extent of limestone country. It agrees perfectly in its 

 characters with that of Gibraltar. All the bones it con- 

 tains, as far as Cuvier had an opportunity of examining, 

 appear to be of the same size as those of the fallow-deer, 

 and perhaps belong to the animal whose remains are 

 found at Gibraltar. The remains of the horse have also 

 been found in the breccia of this district ; for the late 

 John Hunter found the os hyoides of that animal in some 

 masses of conglomerate from Dalmatia. 



6. Island of Ccrigo. The only descriptions we have of 

 this breccia, are those of Spallanzani and Fortis, from 

 which it appears that it possesses the same characters as 

 that of Gibraltar, &c. Spallanzani was of opinion that 

 the bones belonged to the human species. Many years 



