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very nearly accorded with Lagomys Alpinus, which inhabits the 
loftiest rocks of Siberia. It, however, did not exactly agree, either in 
its size or proportions, with any known species. 
An enormous quantity of the bones of the water-rat exists also in 
this breccia, as well as of some smaller animal, perhaps the land- 
mouse, M us terrestris, Linn. 
Among the fossil animal remains of Dalmatia, M. Cuvier has only 
been able to find those of ruminating animals. Teeth which are in 
the Museum of Natural History, and others in the possession of M. 
Faujas and of M. Camper, appear to be of the size of those of the 
deer, and perhaps belong to the same animal whose remains are 
found at Gibraltar. Mr. John Hunter’s account of these bones 
agrees with that of M. Cuvier ; but Mr. Hunter states, that among 
these bones he discovered the os hyoides of a horse. 
Spallanzani, from whom alone we have obtained a particular ac- 
count of the fossils of Cerigo, Memoires de la Socidte Italienne, Tom. 
hi. p. 439, very loosely, and most probably erroneously, describes 
the deposit as a mountain, in the form of a truncated tone, which is 
named the Mountain of Bones, and which he hyperbolically describes 
as being full, inside and outside, of animal remains. His description 
of the state of the bones, and of the nature of the breccia, appears, 
however, to agree exactly with those of the places already spoken ot. 
With respect to the nature of the bones, he has assumed, evidently 
on very indifferent authority, that they are human ; but there does 
not appear any reason for supposing that they are different from those 
which have been already mentioned. 
The fossil bones of Arragon appear, from Mr. Bowles’s account, to 
be chiefly of herbivorous animals, of different sizes ; but these do not 
appear to have yet been subjected to a correct anatomical examina- 
tion. Those which have been found in the Veronese, appear to 
belong to oxen and stags. 
The conclusions which M. Cuvier thinks himself warranted to form, 
