But although 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 nummulites, they would probably be referred to the epoch of the beds within the Paris basin.
(*Footnote.

Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1825 pages 116, 117, 118, and 254 to 255.) The looser breccia of Monte Pelegrino, in Sicily, is very like the less compacted fragments of shells from Bermuda, described by Captain Vetch, and already referred to:* and the rock in both these cases, nearly approaches to some of the coarser oolites of England.
(*Footnote.

These specimens are in the Museum of the Geological Society.) The resemblance pointed out by M.Prevost,* of the specimens of recent breccia from New Holland, in the museum at the Jardin du Roi, 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 approach to those of the adjoining sea at the present day, are particularly mentioned; and it is inferred that the date of the deposit which affords them, is anterior to that of the conglomerate containing the bones of extinct quadrupeds, likewise found in that country.

M.Brongniart also, who examined the place himself, mentions the recent accumulation which occurs at St.
Hospice, about sixty feet above the present level of the sea, as containing marine shells in a scarcely fossil state (a peine fossiles) and he describes the mass in which they occur, as belonging to a formation still more recent than the upper marine beds of the environs of Paris.*** (*Footnote.

Prevost manuscripts.