fishes in the hartz. 125 
^ sometimes happens that scarcely a single 
ne, or scale, has been removed from the place 
during life; this condition could not 
bnfl' heen retained, had the uncovered 
es of these animals been left, even for a few 
attaS/^rf putrefaction, and to the 
the bott "" smaller animals at 
lae bottom of the sea."^ 
thn1^”TT deposit of fossil fishes is 
agonies of death the 
dition 5« fh this con- 
fibres’ whM muscular 
bec»e t ff 7'“ **' ‘o 
death and L 
7. f 1 maintain the dti- 
death° it foir®"'* T°’' ‘““®d‘e<ely succeeding 
ueath, It follows that they were buried w * 
putrefaction had commenced, and apparentlyTn 
had “7”“;' ”h-h 
tioi, „rr destruction. The dissemina- 
Copper and Bitumen through the slate 
“«> «m7.‘7oni Li” ’’T"'"*”" 
proofs of the laose oJ" T'" 
other parts of this fnr f <luring the deposition of 
Coprolites and fossil iTlto ‘ t^'^^P^ers on 
