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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 



earth, the climate was much th 



fame th 



and the cold fufficient to refift the progrefs 



of putrefa6lion. 



Pallas takes notice of the inconfiftency of 

 ilate of this fl^eleton, with the hypothefii 



of 



Buffo 



but he does not obferve that the 



fiftency is equally great between it and h 

 hypothefis, the importation of the foffil bones by 



und 



of th 



fea 



and that flefli or 



an II 



inufcle muft have been entirely confumed long 



before it coiild be 



ied by the waves to th 



parallel of 64 



from any climate 



hich the 



hinoceros at prefent inhabits. 

 416. The prefence of petrified marine objed 

 places where fome of the foffil bones 



are 



found 



proof that the latt 



h 



come from the 



fea, though it is produced as fuch both by Pal- 

 las himfelf, and afterwards by Kirwan. Thefe 

 marine bodies are the fliells and corals that have 

 been parts of calcareous rocks, from which being 

 detached by the ordinary progrefs of difintegra- 

 tion, they are now contained in the beds of fand 



ravel where the animal remains are buried. 



or 



They 

 mains 



nothing in comm 



ith th 



re- 



they are real Hones, and belong 



tlier, and a far more remote epocha. Such objeds 

 being found in the fame place where the 



•ata in the highe 



bones 



lie 



S 



that the ft 



grounds, from which the gravel has come. 



are 



calc 



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