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THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY. 



Lect. III. 



remains of the above extinct mammalia, and of the mas- 

 todon, are found associated with those of existing genera. 



41. Fossil Monkeys.— The illustrious Cuvier, when 

 commenting on the extraordinary fact, that among the 

 innumerable relics of the mammalia which peopled the 

 continents and islands of our planet during the tertiary 

 ages, no traces of man or of his works occur, emphatically 

 observed, that it was a phenomenon not less surprising, 

 that no remains of the quadrumanous tribes, which rank next 



LrGN. 46.— Portion of the lower jaw of a Monkey; from eocene 

 sand at Kingston, near Woodbridge.* 



(Magnified two diameters.) 



Y\g. 1.— The outer side of the tooth and jaw 



2. —View of the specimen from above, showing the upper surface of the crown 



of the tooth. 

 3. — View of the inner side. 



to the human race in physical conformation, should have 

 been discovered ; and that the circumstance was the more 

 remarkable, because the majority of the mammalia found 

 in the drift, and tertiary deposits, have their congeners at 

 the present time in the warmest regions of the globe ; in 

 those intertropical climates where the existing quadrumanaj 

 * From the Magazine of Nat. Hist. vol. iii. p. 447. 



