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 590 APPNmX. crowned with a loose stratum of the. same kind; and the !ihts near ilsatto Giovanni, sa/d to be 2880 feet above the sea, are probabl T composed  it. But althoua the concretions of the interior in Sicily much resemble those of the shore, it is still doubtful whether the former be not of more ancient Formation; and if they contain uummuliteo, they would probably be referred to the epoch of the beds within the Paris basin. The looser breccia of Monte Pelagrino, in Sicily, is very like the less compacted fragments of shells from Bermuda, rioscribed by Captain Vetch, and already referred toO:--and the rock in both these cases, nearly approaches to some of the coarser oolites of England. The resemblance pointed out by M. Prevost,, of the specimens of recent breccia from New Holland, in the museum at the Jardin du Pi, to those of St. Hospice near Nice, is confirmed by the detail given by Mr. Allan in his sketch of the geology of that neighbourhood ; in which the perfect preservation of the shells, and their near proach to those bf the adjoining sea at the present day, are particularly mentioned; and it is inferred that the date ef the deposit which affords them, is anterior to that of the couglomerate qoutaining the bones of extinct quadrupeds, liirewine found in that country. M. Bronguiart also, who amiued the place himself, mentibns the recent accumulation  which occurs at St. Hospice, about sixty feet above the present level of the sea,' as containing marine shells in a seamely fossile state, (' it peine fossiles ;') and he describes , Prevost MSS. See hereafter, p. 691.  Trans. of the R. Soc. of Edinb. vol. viii. 1818. p. 497. See also the previous publications of M. Sisso. Journal des Mines. tern. xxxlv, 
 * These specimens are in the Museum of the Ceological Society.

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