ITS CHARACTERISTIC ANIMALS. 
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It would carry me too far, were I to attempt 
to give anything more than the most cursory 
sketch of the animals of the Tertiary age ; and, 
indeed, they are so well known, and have been 
so fully represented in text-books, that I fear 
some of my readers may think even now that I 
have dwelt too long upon them. Monkeys were 
unquestionably introduced upon earth before the 
close of the Tertiaries ; some bones have been 
found in Southern France, and also on Mount 
Pentelicus in Greece, in the later Tertiary depos- 
its ; but these remains have not yet been collected 
in sufficient number to establish much more than 
the fact of their presence in the animal creation 
