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THE SAVAGE WORLD, 
Fossil numullites are especially numerous, and though generally micro¬ 
scopic in size, their minute bodies compose the principal bulk of many moun¬ 
tains, such as the Alps, Carpathian and Pyrenees. The Pyramids and Sphinx 
cuttle-fish {Sepia officinalis). 
of Egypt are a composite of limestone and the chalky remains of these small 
animals, and all chalk, wherever found, is but a composition of the fossil of 
these and other creatures belonging to the same genera. In the long ages 
