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OF WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN COASTS. 933 
one of the fissures at Nice was filled by a conglomerate of rolled (beach) pebbles, 
while the rock on one side was drilled by Lithodomi. Above this conglomerate, the 
fissure was filled with a breccia containing bones and land shells.^ Thist indicates, 
therefore, the same relation of “head” or Rubble-drift to an old sea level that exists 
in the English Channel. 
The greater number of the bones, which occur only in places, are broken and in 
fragments, only a few being entire. They are neither worn nor rolled, nor are they 
found in any relation to their order in the skeleton.| Nor is it recorded that there 
are any traces of their having been gnawed. 
The bones which have been found at the several places here named belong to :— 
Felis leo. 
„ pardus. 
Elephas primigenms ? 
Rhinoceros leptorhinus. 
Hippopotamus f 
Sus f 
Ursus [prisons f).§ 
Bos. 
Equus [caballus ?). 
Cervus elaphus. 
The shells are— 
Helix nemoralis. 
„ algira. 
■ „ vermiculata. 
„ lapicida. 
,, nitida. 
Cervus dama. 
Lagomys [pusillus'?). 
Lepus caniculus. 
,, til nidus. 
Antilope f 
Lizard (recent species ?). 
Tortoise ,, 
Serpent ,, 
Helix cristallina. 
Pupa. 
Bidimus decollatus. 
Cyclostoma elegans. 
These land shells are all of recent species living in the neighbourhood. 
Amongst the specimens sent to Cuvier from Nice was a portion of jaw which he 
recognised as human, though he felt doubt as to whether it was contemporaneous 
with the other bones. It was found, not in the undisturbed breccia, but in a 
talus of the breccia which had fallen from the exposed surface of an ossiferous fissure. 
Some portions of this breccia were hard and compact, and other portions were uncon¬ 
solidated and earthy, and the bones in those parts were less stained and less well- 
* ‘Trans. Geol. Soc.,’ 2nd ser., vol. 3, p. 171, 1835. The height of the perforated rock above the sea 
is not given. 
t There is a similar instance of superposition near Mentone, but not so well shown. 
t CnviEE, ‘Ossemens Fossiles,’ vol. 4, 2nd Edit., p. 172. 
§ Mentioned by Falconer in ‘ Palseont. Mem.,’ vol. 2, pp. 370 and 466. 
