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age, traversed by a large number of ossiferous fissures, 250 to 450 feet above sea- 
level, that have been described by M. A. Locard.'^ These fissures are generally 
crooked and narrow, and extend the whole height of the quarries. When the sides 
of rock come near together at the top, the fissures are sometimes empty, but more 
generally they are filled with an ochreous and ferruginous eartli or loam containing 
sharp angular fragments of the adjacent rocks, some of large size, with bones and 
land shells, heaped together without any order. In some places the breccia is 
concreted and forms a hard rock. M. Locard gives the following list of the fauna 
that have been found in the breccia :— 
Homo. 
Lagomys Corsicanus, Cuv. 
Myoxus glis, Schreber. 
Mus sylvaticus, L. 
Canis vulpes, L. 
Lacerta. 
Ovis musimon, L. 
Lepus. 
Testudo. 
Perdix. 
The predominant remains are those of the Lagomys, those of the other Rodents are 
also numerous ; of Birds only a few bones have been found. All the bones are much 
broken and there are no large ones. Avery few fragmentary bones of Man have been 
found in association with the bones of Lagomys. The condyle of the left upper 
maxillary, and a fragment of the sphenoid bone were determined by Dr. Lortet. A 
few species of marine shells were discovered, but M. Locard considers that these were 
introduced by later Man (?). He further gives a list of thirteen species of Helix, three 
of Zonites, two of Pupa, and one of Clausilia. They are all species now living in 
Corsica, except one referred to as an Egyptian species. 
As the Lagomys still survives in Siberia, and its remains are found elsewhere 
associated with the Mammoth and Woolly Rhinoceros, M. Locard concludes that 
these ossiferous fissures are of late glacial age, and that Corsica was then separated 
from the mainland. 
Sardinia. —The work of General De la Marmora! gives many interesting details 
of the Quaternary deposits of this island. He shows that at several places on the 
coast there is a Raised Beach (or littoral deposit) like that of Gibraltar, composed of 
sand and grit (Gres Quaternaire), with occasional layers of pebbles and shells. The 
list is useful as affording a term of comparison with the Raised-Beach shells of the 
English Channel. Like them they are, with few exceptions, all of species now living 
in the neighbouring seas. There is, therefore, no reason why the Sardinian beach 
should not also be of late glacial age, although the stratigraphical evidence is not so 
clear as in the other case. 
* ‘ Arch. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. de Lyon,’ vol. 1, p. 37, 1873 ; and ‘ Bull. Soc. Geol. de France,’ 3me ser., 
vol. 1, p. 232. 
t ‘Voyage en Sardaigne,.’ Paris, 1857. 
