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and in some of the caverns of the mountain (all of which afford evident 
proofs of their former communication with the surface), a calcareous 
concretion is found, of a reddish brown colour, with an earthy frac- 
ture and considerable induration, including the bones of various ani- 
mals, some of which have the appearance of being human. These 
bones are of various sizes, and lie in all directions, intermixed with 
shells of snails, fragments of the calcareous rock, and particles of spar ; 
all of which materials are still to be seen in their natural uncombined 
states, partially scattered over the surface of the mountain. These 
having been swept by heavy rains, at different periods, from the surface 
into the situations above described, and having remained for a long 
series of years in those places of rest, exposed to the penetrating 
action of water, have become enveloped in, and cemented by, the cal- 
careous matter which it deposits.” It is right here to observe, that 
Mr. Boddington ascertained that these bones had been found fifty- 
seven feet above high-water mark. Phil. Trans. Vol. lx. p. 414. 
This concreting matter may, in some places, be traced from the 
lowest part of a deep perpendicular fissure up to the surface of the 
mountain. In many parts of the rock this concretion exists, unmixed 
with bones of any kind : and on the elevated parts of the mountain, 
masses are found, consisting of snail-shells combined with a mass of 
opaque stalactitical spar of a yellowish brown colour. This spar often 
incrusts the inner surface of the hollow bones : sometimes the spathose 
crust is colourless, and sometimes of a reddish colour. The concre- 
tion in which these bones have been found, in Dalmatia, at Cette, 
Nice, Antibes, and Cerigo, agrees very closely, in its situation, colour, 
and composition, with that of the rock of Gibraltar. 
The fossil remains of animals, we have seen, are found in the Vi- 
centin and Veronese, but it does not appear to be certain that the 
concretions containing these bones, any more than those of Concud, 
are of the same kind with those of Gibraltar, Dalmatia, &c. ; their 
connecting matter being of a different grain, and of another colour : 
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