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on ihe Natural History of the Adriatic Sea, p. 8, French translation, 
being the only copy of the work which I possess, he says : “ Dans le 
voisinage des lies appelles, Incoronate, est un rocher nomme Jadra, 
qui est tout plein de Debris de petoncles entierement changes en sub- 
stance de marbre. 
“ Peu loin de ce rocher on trouve un bas fond, ou banc, appelle 
Raspp, ou l’on voit des os d’homrae petrifies. Ils sont dans un melange 
de marbre de Rovigno, de terre rouge, et de stalactites. C’est pourquoi 
je ne crois pas cette petrifaction aussi ancienne que les autres. J’ai aussi 
deterre de ces os petrifies avec le meme melange a Rocosniza pres de 
Sebenico, et sur les bords de la riviere Cicola du cote de Dernes.” 
Abbe Fortis added to his other Philosophical labours that of repair- 
ing to the islands of Cherso and Osero, to observe these wonders. 
The frequent heaps that are seen, the sameness of the substance, the 
variety of the positions, and the similar materials of the congeries, 
might give room to conjecture, he says, at first sight, that one im- 
mense stratum had been thus composed in remote ages. 
There are two different heaps on the desert rock of Gutim ; and a 
mile from Gutim, at a place called Platt, on the island of Cherso, other 
heaps are to be seen, He also found them in the caverns of Gher- 
moshall, and at Porto Cicale, in the post of Vallishall, and at Balvanida. 
Two large heaps were also found in the small island called Canidole 
Picciola, and others in the small island of Sansego. The same charac- 
ters, he observes, marks the Illyrick bones over all these islands and 
along the coasts of Dalmatia Along the torrent Cicola, between Sibe- 
nico and Knin ; in Isola Grossa ; in Corfu, in the Ionian sea ; and in 
the isle of Cyprus it appears, that similar fossil bones exist. Among 
these bones the Abbe Fortis discovered the bones of sheep, and the teeth 
o ^ orses and oxen; with other bones, which he believed to be human. 
Iravels into Dalmatia by Abbe Alberto Fortis, p. 440, et seq. 
The island of Cerigo, in the Archipelago, is also mentioned by the 
Abbe Foi tis, as possessing these fossils ; which circumstance is also 
