OSSEOUS BRECCIA. 



ago Blumenbach refuted this opinion, and Cuvier shows 

 that all of them belong to ruminating; animals. 



7. Concudy near Teruel in Arragon. Bowles, in his Na- 

 tural History of Spain, describes limestone rt>cks, con- 

 taining an osseous breccia, as occurring at Concud. Cu- 

 vier is of opinion that it belongs to the same formation 

 as that of Gibraltar. It contains bones of the ox, ass, of 

 a small kind of sheep, and many terrestrial and fresh wa- 

 ter shells. 



8 Osseous Incrustations in the Vicentim and Veronese. 

 The natural history of these incrustations, or conglome- 

 rates, is still very imperfect. Cuvier found in them bones 

 of the stag and ox. 



Cuvier finishes his description of this osseous conglo- 

 merate, or breccia, with the following observations : 



1. The osseous breccias have not be formed 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 continent, 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 rock which they contain, 

 fell into the rents of the rocks successively, and as they 

 fell became united together by the accumulation of the 

 sparry matter- 4. Almost all the fragments contained in 

 the fissures are portions of the bounding rock. 5. All the 

 well-ascertained bones belong to herbivorous animals. 

 6. The greater number belong to known animals, and to 

 species that at present live in the neighbouring country. 

 T. The formation of these breccias, therefore, appears to 

 be modern, in comparison of the floetz rocks, and the allu- 

 vk.1 strata, that contain remains of unknown land animate 



