218 GEOLOGICAL CHAHOES OP TUB EABT«. 
and at Craven, in Yorkshire, having an elevation o ^ 
two thousand feet above the present level ° j ' 
contain, in a greater or less abundance, gi,ell'‘''!i,' 
their whole extent, fossil remains ot zoophites, 
and marine animals. Not any remains of yegeta^ _ 
ana manuc iiuiniius. X’.ui mv ,,-.,*.....0 — _ - -D , -J; 
been found in the calcareous mountains of lingta 
been tounn m me calcareous muuinsius j 
in the thick beds of shale and grit-stone lying upo ^ il^ 
are found various vegetable impressions, and 
regular beds of coal, with strata, containing aK\ 
water musdes. In the earthy limestone ot 
strata are sometime.s fonnd fossil flat-fish, with t 
sion of the scales and hones quite distinct. ' ^ , 
tains of tlie Pyrenees are covered in tlie lng‘'f 
Mont Pei-du, with calcareous rocks, contaimug 
where the 
of marine animals ; and, even where the imp 
not visible in tlie limestone, it yields a fetid - 
odonr, wlicn dissolved in acids, owing, in aU P' ^ v 
to 
the animal matters it contains. Mont I’er 
le mimiai mancis il ».inAuajiA.7. ^.*w**w 
ten thousand five Imndrcd feet, nearly t 
4 ' 
rises ten Uiousaun nve luuiuicu icci, iflV ii 
above tlie level ol' the sea, is the highest suualion j,i 
any marine remains liave been found in 
Andes they liave been oliserved by Humboldt 3 
of fourteen thousand feet, more than two mil«s ^ ' 
of.^ 
l.ardly, in sortihern countries, in and under a* 
covenna 
chalk, tlie liones of the elephant, t* 
J 
rhinoceros, are I'requeutly limnd. ^ ^ 
TheVe bones, as 'thev have licen brought 
parts of the world, have been examined with i [,ji o 
P ... .. .....v., Cuvier. f- 
attention by tlie sagaciou. 
; nnturali.st, 
served characteristic variations of structure, " ^ 
that they belong to animals not now existing on 
nor have many of the 
..a.o zoophites 
found in calcareous rocks, been discovered m 
tound in calcareous rocKs, been aiscovcicu 
seas. From these very curious facts he makes 
rug deductions. . in '' ' 
7' 
via XU-'XWV.UUU,-,. u- T 
“ These bones arc buried, almost every wh ^^i^ | f 
limilar beds ; tliey are often blended with ^ 
mals resembiing those of the present day. 
'‘'"i 
mals resuuuiuj^ uiuac wa j 
generally loose, either sandy or marly j and 
bourino-, more or less, to the surface. It is tnc , 
l;is‘’ 
DOUIUlg, lliuiv- ... , 
that these bones have been enveloped fX ja ^ 
one of the last, catastrophes of tins globe. 
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