148 BRECCIA IN FISSURES ON THE SOUTH COASTS OF EUROPE. 
OSSEOUS BRECCIA OF GIBRALTAR, NICE, DALMATIA, &c. 
The close connexion, or rather the identity of circumstances 
which we have seen to exist with respect to the time and manner in 
which the bones were introduced both into caverns and fissures, in 
Germany and England, leads me to think it almost certain, that those 
fissures also which are found to contain such large quantities of 
osseous breccia in the limestone rocks of Gibraltar, Antibes, Nice, 
Cette, Pisa, and Dalmatia, and numerous other places along the 
north shores of the Mediterranean and Adriatic, and in the islands of 
Cerigo, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, &c., had become charged with these 
remains in the same antediluvian period with the caves and fissures I 
have been describing. M. Fortis, in his account of the breccia of 
Dalmatia, and some of the islands, says it occurs both in vertical 
and horizontal cavities of the limestone, and that it is visible in clefts 
and fissures along the shores, and in caves in the interior of all the 
islands and coasts of Illyria; that the bones are usually embedded in 
a red ochreous cement, dispersed and broken, and that a single 
skeleton is never found entire. M. Provencal repeats the same 
observations in his account of the breccia in the caves and fissures 
near Nice. M. Chevalier also says of the bones at Gibraltar, that 
they lie separate one from another, but not rolled, and that the 
greater part of them appear to have been broken before they were 
incrusted in their present cement: and M. Cuvier, in his first 
