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had been said to be human. M. Cuvier examined it, and found that it 
had belonged to some ruminant about the size of a deer, and perhaps 
to the same animal with that whose remains are found at Gibraltar. 
The shells found here were of three sorts, two helices and a pupa ; 
but no trace whatever of any sea- shell or of any marine animal, contrary 
to the opinion of M. Faujas. Annales du Mus. Tom. x. p. 410. 
The bones contained in the ossiferous breccise of Nice and Antibes 
are, according to M. Provencal, physician of Montpellier, only those 
of herbivorous animals ; and, according to M. Cuvier, of horses and 
of ruminating animals. Of the latter, he has seen the remains of two 
species : the bones, or rather the teeth of one of these, appear to be 
of the size of those of the calf, and the others of those of the stag. 
Ao teeth of any smaller animals have been found here. 
The shells are all terrestrial, being helicas or pupa:. The Helix 
algira was found adhering to a jaw like that of a stag, byM. Proven- 
cal, but no remains of marine animals have been found. M. Faujas, 
indeed, speaks of serpulse, and a volute, which was said to have been 
found here ; but these were shown him in a cabinet, and of course he 
might have been deceived. 
The ossiferous breccias of Corsica differ materially from those of 
Gibraltar, since they do not yield any bones resembling those of sheep 
or deer, but only those of the size of the rabbit, guinea-pig, or rat. 
All the fossil bones of Corsica, which have been examined bv M. 
Cuvier, are of the class of rosores ; but they do not, like those of Cette, 
belong to species common to the adjoining country, since he found a 
complete head of a genus, the species of which have been but just 
discovered in Siberia. 
By the flatness of the skull, the upward direction of the orbits, the 
hooked apophysis at the base of the zygomatic arch, and by the 
long apophysis which carries this arch backwards, he was led to 
compare it with the skulls of the little hares without tails ( Lagomys , 
Cuv.), figured by Pallas ; and, on careful examination, found that it 
