FOSSIL FISH. 3H\) 



lobster has been found there, and a crab related to C. Mannas, 

 Linn., of which M. Desmarest has spoken in his work on fossil 

 Crustacea. 



Ichthyolites are found in the Vicentine territory, about a 

 hundred paces from the town of Schio, in gross spherical 

 nodules, a little compressed, contained in the great calcareous 

 strata, composed of a greyish stone, mixed with argilla, and 

 quartzose sand. At Monteviale, a league and a half distant 

 from the road to Vicenza, some are also found in a brown, 

 bituminous, argillo-calcareous schist, attaching to a coal-mine, 

 which is worked between heaps of madrepores above and below. 

 Similar fossil fish are also found at Salzeo, twenty miles to the 

 north of Vicenza, at the foot of that part of the Alps which 

 unites itself to the Tyrol, in a fissile, black, pyritous, and fragile 

 schist, eight feet in thickness, under a bluish, foliated schist, 

 hard, or slaty, at the summit of a volcanic mountain. 



At Tolmezzo, a small borough of Frioul, are some very 

 small species of fossil fish, in a fissile stone, like that of 

 Vestena Nuova. M. Faujas, who mentions these, has fa- 

 voured us with no details which could lead to an appreciation 

 of the genera to which they belong. 



A stone, containing a fossil fish, was taken from a quarry 

 which is on the declivity of a mountain, six hundred feet above 

 the level of the sea, and at the distance of two miles from it 

 at Antibes. ^* 



In Dalmatia, fossil fish have been found, with marine 

 [)lants, corallines, and mussels, in a whitish fissile marble, 

 which the inhabitants use for covering their houses, in the gulf 

 of Jukowa, island of Lesina, near a small hamlet called 

 Verbager. They have also been found in the island of Cerigo, 

 in a stone analogous to that of Vestena Nuova. 



In Asia, ichthyolites have been found in Mount Libanus, 

 near Gibel, in a calcareous stone, somewhat argillaceous, 

 usually white, but occasionally brown. These ichthyolites are 

 tolerably numerous, and have many relations with those of 



