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oxen and elephants. A tusk of one of these last was nearly 

 twelve feet in length. 



Similar discoveries have also been made in the fissures of 

 Sicily and Sardinia, and in different parts of Germany. But 

 it is impossible to afford in this place any further detail con- 

 cerning them. 



In the plaster-quarries in the neighbourhood of Paris, are 

 found skeletons of genera for ages extinct, such as the anoplo- 

 therium and palaeotherium : also bones of an animal bearing 

 affinity to the sarigue, of four species of carnivora, with debris 

 of tortoises, birds, and fishes. 



The loose strata exhibit bones, teeth, and tusks of elephants, 

 mingled with bones of horses, in almost every country; of 

 mastodons, in America, in Little Tartary, in Siberia, in Italy, 

 in France ; of the rhinoceros, in France, in England, in Italy, 

 in Germany, and Siberia ; of the hippopotamus, near Montpel- 

 lier, in Italy, and England, &c. &c. of an animal resembling the 

 tapir in the south of France ; of a gigantic species of cervus, 

 resembling the elk in Ireland and England ; of the Indian 

 musk-ox in Siberia ; of fallow-deer of an unknown species in 

 Scania ; of hyaenas, near Eichstadt ; of balaense, in the Plai- 

 santin ; and of an immense animal of the family tardigrada, 

 called the megatherium, a species unknown in the living state, 

 near Buenos Ayres. 



In the turbaries of the department of the Somme in France, 

 have been found debris of the aurochs, of oxen, far surpassing 

 in magnitude our domestic races ; of beavers, of cervi of un- 

 known species, of horses, of roebucks, and of wild boars. 



We are far, indeed, from having enumerated all the disco- 

 veries of this description that have been made, nor will our 

 limits permit us to do so. Even since the publication of the 

 last edition of the " Ossemens Fossiles," thirty species have 

 been found in volcanic tufa in the strata of Mount Perrier, 

 near the Issoire, in France ; — namely, nine ruminants, six 

 pachydermata, one edentatum, twelve carnivora, and two ro- 



