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Both Marshall and Davy mention, that during the march of troops in the mountains, when the Kandyans were in rebellion, in 1818, the soldiers, and especially the Madras sepoys, with the pioneers and coolies, suffered so severely from this cause that numbers perished. Bose. Blainv. These pests are not, however, confined to Ceylon, they infest the lower ranges of the Himalaya.
To this Upper Devonian belong a series of limestones and slates well developed at Petherwyn, in Cornwall, where they have yielded 75 species of fossils. Heliolites porosa, Goldf. sp. Portion of the same magnified. Favosites cervicornis, Blainv. S. Devon, from a polished specimen. a. Cyathophyllum caespitosum, Goldf.; Plymouth and Ilfracombe. b. A terminal star. c.
Voluta nodosa, Sowerby. Phorus extensus, Sowerby. Nautilus centralis, Sowerby. Aturia ziczac, Bronn. Syn. Nautilus ziczac, Sowerby. London clay. Belosepia sepioidea, De Blainv. London clay. Leda amygdaloides, Sowerby. London clay. Astropecten crispatus, E. Forbes. The marine shells of the London Clay confirm the inference derivable from the plants and reptiles in favour of a high temperature.
Radiolites foliaceus, d'Orbigny. Syn. Sphaerulites agarici-formis, Blainv. Hippurites organisans, Desmoulins. Upper chalk: chalk marl of Pyrenees? Young individual; when full grown they occur in groups adhering laterally to each other. b. Upper side of the upper valve, showing a reticulated structure in those parts, b, where the external coating is worn off. c.
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