Extinct Species. -

At a height superior to that of Mont Blanc, on the summit of the Andes, we find petrified sea-shells; fossil bones of the elephant are spread over the equinoctial regions; and what is very remarkable, they are not discovered at the feet of the palm trees in the burning plains of the Orinoco, but on the coldest and most elevated regions of the Cordilleras.

In the new world, as well as in the old, generations of species long extinct have preceded those which now people the earth, the waters, and the air.—Humboldt’s American Researches.