I7S 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



Europe. At St Chaumont, near Lyons, is found 

 an argillaceous fchiftus, covering a bed of coal 

 every lamina of which is marked with the im- 

 preffions of the ft em, leaf, or other part of feme 



plant ; 

 by an 

 not or 



d it happens, fays M. Eon 



iccountable deftination of 

 f thefe 



IS a 



lature, that 

 of France. 



They are all ferns of different fpecies, peculiar 

 to the Eaft Indies, or the warmer climates of 

 America. Here alfo was found the fruit of a 

 tree, which grows only on the coails of Malabar 

 and Coromandel *. 



The fame holds of the bodies of amphibious 

 animals which now m.ake a part of the foffil 

 kingdom. The head and the bones of croco- 

 diles have been found in the illand of Shepey, 

 at the mouth of the Thames ; and the remains 

 of an animal of the fame fpecies, but of a va- - 

 riety now peculiar to the Ganges, have been 

 difcovered in the alum rocks on the coaft of York- 

 fhire f. Thefe proofs of the tranfportation of 



materials 



* Mem. de I'Acad. des Sciences, 1718, p. 3. and 287 > 

 and 1721, p. 89, &c. 



f Phil. Tranf. vol. 1. p. 688, Camper denies that the 

 remains here mentioned belong to the crocodile, or any 



amphibious animal, and refers them 



He 



pafles the fame judgment on thofe foffil bones from St Pe- 

 ter's Mount, near Maeftrich, which have been fuppofed to 



belon 



