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LETTER XXV. 
FOSSIL BONES OF RUMINANTS, &C. IN THE ISLANDS OF CHERSO 
AND OSERO ISLAND OF CERIGO AT NICE AND ANTIBES 
AT CETTE NEAR CONCUD, IN ARRAGON IN THE ROCK OF 
GIBRALTAR. 
Few among the interesting objects which present themselves for our 
examination can appear more wonderful than those which are now to 
engage our attention. In the rock of Gibraltar, in Arragon, in Nice, 
and Antibes ; on the more northern shores of the Mediterranean ; in 
the more northern parts of the island of Corsica ; in Dalmatia, and in 
the islands of Cherso and Osero, as well as in several others of the 
islets of the Adriatic, the bones of similar animals have been found 
deposited, in situations and under circumstances extremely similar. 
Or, in the expressive language of Cuvier : “ Des rochers epars, et 
souvent isoles a plusieurs centaines de lieues les uns des autres, mais 
formes de la meme pierre, sont fendus en differens sens ; elurs fissures 
sont remplies d’une concretion semblable partout, qui enveloppe des 
os et des fragmens de pierres, et a toutes ces distances les fragmens 
de pierres, et les os sont a peu pres les memes. An du Mus. Tome 
xiii. p. 169- 
The first notice which appears to have been given of these fossils 
was in 1/45, by Vitaliano Donati, to whose assiduous inquiries I have 
already acknowledged my obligations, whilst examining into the struc- 
ture of the recent alcyonia. In the work there referred to, An Essay 
