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been found in at least two other parts of tlie eartli — 

 namely, the sub-Himalayan hills, near the Sutlej, and in 

 Brazil (both in the tertiary strata) ; the first being a 

 large species of semnopithecus, and the second a still 

 larger animal belonging to tlie Ameiican group of 

 monkeys, but a new genus, and denominated by its 

 discoverer, Dr. Lund, protopitheeus. The latter would 

 be four feet in height. 



One remarkable circumstance connected with the ter- 

 tiary formation remains to be noticed — namely, the pre- 

 valence of volcanic action at that era. In Auvergne, in 

 Catalonia, near Venice, and in the vicinity of Rome and 

 Naples, lavas exactly resembling the produce of existing 

 volcanoes, are associated and intermixed with the lacus- 

 trine as well as marine tertiaries. The suj^erficies c»f 

 tertiaries in England is disturbed by two great swell,;, 

 forming what are called anticlinal axes, one of which 

 divides the London from the Hampshire basin, while the 

 other passes through the Isle of Wight, both throwing 

 the strata down at a violent inclination towards the 

 north, as if the subterranean disturbing force had iravJ 

 forward in that direction. The Pyrenees, too, and Al}).s, 

 have both undergone elevation since the deposition of the 

 tertiaries ; and in 8icily there are mountains which have 

 risen three thousand feet since the deposition of some of 

 the most recent of these rocks. The general effect of 

 these operations was of course to extend the land surface, 

 and to increase the variety of its features, thus improving 

 the natural drainage, and generally adapting the eartli 

 for the reception of higher classes of animals. 



