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mentioned by Spallanzani ; who, without sufficient authority, also 
conceived these bones to be human. 
The accumulation of these fossils at Nice and at Antibes, have been 
particularly noticed by M. Faujas. Ann. du Mus. Tom. x. p. 409, Sec. 
The rock which bears the castle of Nice, and in which these remains 
are found, is in a manner the last extremity of the chain of Alps, 
which bifurcates a little, to form towards the West the mountains of 
Provence, and towards the East those of Genes, which are themselves 
the beginning of the chain of the Appennines. These fossils, according 
to Faujas, are also found in the ruins of Cimiez, an ancient city, a little 
higher up than Nice ; and there is also reason to conclude, from his 
description, that the mountain of Montalban, Villefranche, and the 
greater part of those which surround the plain of Nice, are covered 
with a reddish ochry earth, similar to that which abounds in the 
Breccia, which contains the bones. The city of Antibes is separated 
from that of Nice only by a bay about four leagues wide, which appears 
to be surrounded by hills of the same nature. 
At Cette also, at the beginning of the canal of Languedoc, between 
Montpellier and Agde, on the Mediterranean, these fossils are also 
found. The mountain of Cette is an isolated cone, which is connected 
with the land by a very narrow neck of sand. Very lately M. Ram- 
passe has discovered similar fossil remains in Corsica. These are at 
some distance to the north of Bastia, at about half a league from the 
sea, and at about a hundred fathoms above its level. 
Cueva-rubia, a hill near to Concud, in Arragon, appears also to 
contain fossil bones ; but the cementing matter differs from that of 
the preceding fossils both in its grain and colour. Fossil bones are 
also found at Romagnano, in the valley of Pantena and of Ronca ; 
but these, like those of Concud, seem to differ from those previously 
mentioned, in the nature of the connecting matter. Mr. Bowles be- 
lieved that he had found here the bones of the legs and thighs of men 
and women ; but Cuvier observes, it must require great practice in 
