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central school of the department of Gard. But the most important 
and valuable collection of these fossils is that which was formed, at a 
vast expense, by the Count de Gazzola, of Verona, who had a con- 
siderable number of these fishes engraved, many of which he had 
published, in three parts of a most splendid work, the continuation 
of which was prevented by the successes of Bonaparte, who, in the 
words of M. Faujas, “ se concerta avec ce savant, pour acquerir de 
gre a gre ce cabinet unique,” p. 110. In consequence, it now forms 
a part of the National Museum of Natural History at Paris. 
Near to Schio, in the Vincentino, similar fish are found with echi- 
nites and shells, in a grey calcareous stone, mixed with clay and 
quartzose sand. Small chetodons are also found in a brown bitumin- 
ous argillo-calcareous schist, belonging to a coal-mine, not yet dug, at 
Monteviale, near to Vicenzo. At Salzeo, situated at the foot of that 
part of the Alps which joins to the Tyrolean mountains, are found 
similar fish with those of Monteviale, in a black pyritous fragile schist : 
in which are also observable the impressions of marine plants, of 
polypodies, and of compressed wood. Small fish are also found at 
Tolmezzo, a small town of Frioul, and at Cerigo, in the Archipelago, 
in a fissile stone resembling that of Vestena Nuova. At Alessano, a 
province of Otranto, small fishes are found, in a very white calca- 
reous silt. In the Island of Lesina, in Dalmatia, fossil fish are also 
found, with the polish still visible on their scales, in a hard, sonorous, 
and foliated reddish lime-stone. At Scapezzano, and in Monto Alto, 
in the duchy of Urbin, and in the promontory of Focara, in the same 
duchy, similar fossils are also found ; and in the latter place, they are 
said to be mixed, in a confused state, with rounded and rubbled 
porous lava. At Stabia, to the West of Castellamare, Scipio Breislak 
found, in a calcareous fissile stone, impressions of one particular 
species of fish only, called at Naples Sbaraglioni, Sparus guarraccinus. 
And the same naturalist was informed, by M. Fortis, that the iethyo- 
lites of Pietra Roja, near Cerreto, have two particularities : the one 
