4,12 The late Mr. Hunter's Observations 
masterly manner by Mr. Batty, surgeon in Great Marlbo- 
rough-street, who was so obliging as to take that trouble, are 
annexed to this account. See Tab. XIX. and XX. 
Bones of animals under circumstances so similar, although in 
different parts of the globe, one would have naturally supposed 
to consist chiefly of those of one class or order in every place, 
one principle acting in all places. In Gibraltar they are mostly 
of the ruminating tribe, of the hare kind, and the bones of birds , 
yet there are some of a small dog or fox, and likewise shells. 
Those in Dalmatia appear to be mostly of the ruminating 
tribe, yet I saw a part of the os hyoides of a horse ; but those 
from Germany are mostly carnivorous. From these facts 
we should be inclined to suppose, that their accumulation did 
not arise from any instinctive mode of living, as the same 
mode could not suit both carnivorous and herbivorous animals. 
In considering animals respecting their situation upon the 
globe, there are many which are peculiar to particular climates, 
and others that are less confined, as herrings, mackerel, and 
salmon ; others again, which probably move over the whole 
extent of the sea, as the shark, porpus, and whale tribe ; while 
many shell-fish must be confined to one spot. If the sea had 
not shifted its situation more than once, and was to leave the 
land in a very short time, then we could determine what the 
climate had formerly been by the extraneous fossils of the sta- 
tionary animals, for those only would be found mixed with 
those of passage ; but if the sea moves from one place to another 
slowly, then the remains of animals of different climates may 
be mixed, by those^of one climate moving over those of ano- 
ther, dying, and being fossilized ; but this I am afraid cannot 
be made out. By the fossils we may, however, have some idea 
