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crowned with a loose stratum of the same kind ; and the 
heights near Castro Giovanni, said to be 2880 feet above 
the sea, are probably composed of it. But although the 
concretions of the interior in Sicily much resemble those of 
the shore, it is still doubtful whether the former be not of 
more ancient formation; and if they contain nummulites, 
they would probably be referred to the epoch of the beds 
within the Paris basin. 
The looser breccia of Monte Pelegrino, in Sicily, is 
very like the less compacted fragments of shells from 
Bermuda, described by Captain Vetch, and already referred 
to and the rock in both these cases, nearly approaches 
to some of the coarser oolites of England. 
The resemblance pointed out by M. Prevostf, of the 
specimens of recent breccia from New Holland, in the 
museum at the Jardin du Roi, to those of St. Hospice near 
Nice, is confirmed by the detail given by Mr. Allan in 
his sketch of the geology of that neighbourhood I ; in which 
the perfect preservation of the shells, and their near ap- 
proach to those of the adjoining sea at the present day, 
are particularly mentioned; and it is inferred that the date 
of the deposit which affords them, is anterior to that of the 
conglomerate containing the bones of extinct quadrupeds, 
likewise found in that country. M. Brongniart also, who ex- 
amined the place himself, mentions the recent accumulation 
‘ which occurs at St. Hospice, about sixty feet above the 
present level of the sea,’ as containing marine shells in 
a scarcely fossile state, (‘ a peine fossiles ;’) and he describes 
* These specimens are in the Museum of the Geological Society. 
t Prevost MSS. See hereafter, p. 621. 
Trans, of the R. Soc. of Edinb. vol. viii. 1818. p. 427, &c.— 
See also the previous publications of M. Risso. Journal des Mines, 
tom. xxxiv, &P. 
