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 �APPENDIX. [C. The comenting lime-stone in the rock  this island, is very like ome of the more eompact portions of the stone of Ouadaloupe, which contains the human skeletoas, the hardaess and fitcture being nearly the same in both. The chief difference of these rocks seems to arise from the na- ture of the comented subetancos ;which, in the Ooada= loupe stone, being themselves calcareous, am incorporated, or melted as it were, into the coment, by insensible gra- dation*; while the quartzose sand, in that of Dirk Harto's Island, is strongly eontrssted with the calcareous matter that surrounds itt. But, wherever the imbedded fragments in the !aiter consist of lime-stone, their union with the coment is eomp!ete. Ro?ssT IS-D, tbout four hundred and fifty miles south of Dirk Hartog's Island.--lndistinct specimens con- tnining numerous fragments of shells, in a calcareous co- meat; the substanee of these shells has at first sight the et e eomposent d'un [and nembre de zones eoncentriqms, qui se vdop!nt ,,uenr d'un neyu cenW! d'un [r stintill,or branlitre. Ces dlverss conches ont  peine qnzlqus milllmltres d'dseur, et ,ffeetent des nuanees ,rables, qui wdent delmis I rongfone jusqu'au jaune-clair. L- dinposition gnrale de et breche lui donne done qnelques rapports gossinrs $cranit giobnleux de rile de Cor; et, lr sea couches eoneeniques, elle a quelqne chose de !'sspect des Aghes-Onyx. .....  banes de gzs divers dont je viens de pader, eoni. �oi. L p. 110. ,See also Freycinet, p. 187. �+ Ca!aln Kin informs me tlt the oundings in this part of the eot, bring up & very fine quertso-ssl, like thzt eemmted in the brezia.
 * 8ee Mr. Kmnig's Paper. Phil. Tram. vol. eiv. (1814) p. IO7,

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