discovered in 1839, by Messrs. William
Colchester and Searles Wood, at Kyson, near Woodbridge, in
Suffolk, and was referred by Professor Owen to the genus Macacus.
(Mag. of Nat. Hist. Sept. 1839. Taylor, Annals of Nat. Hist. No.
xxiii. Nov. 1839.)

[226] Owen's Introduction to British Fossil Mammals, p. 46.

[227] Proceedings of Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. Dec. 9, 1851.

[228] See ch. 48.

[229] Ibid.

[230] Ibid.

[231] Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. ii. p. 594.

[232] Virgil, Eclog. iv. For an account of these doctrines, see
Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind,
vol. ii. chap. ii. sect. 4, and Prichard's Egypt. Mythol. p. 177.

[233] See ch. 41.

[234] See ch. 35.

[235] See ch. 37, 38, 39, 41.

[236] See also Manual of Geology, ch. 11, 12.

[237] It has been suspected ever since the middle of the last
century, that the Caspian was lower than the ocean, it being
known that in Astrakhan the mercury in the barometer generally
stands above thirty inches. In 1811, MM. Engelhardt and Parrot
attempted to determine the exact amount of difference by a series
of levellings and barometrical measurements across the isthmus at
two different places near the foot of Mount Caucasus. The result
of their operations led them to the opinion that the Caspian was
more than 300 feet below the Black Sea. But the correctness of
the observations having afterwards been called in question, M.
Parrot revisited the ground in 1829 and 1830, and inferred from
new levellings, that the mouth of the Don was between three and
four feet lower than that of the Wolga; in other words, that the
sea of Azof, which communicates with the Black Sea, was actually
lower than the Caspian! Other statements, no less contradictory,
having been made by other observers, the Russian government at
length directed the Academy of St. Petersburg to send an
expedition, in 1836, to decide the point by a trigonometrical
survey, from which it appeared that the Caspian is 101 Russian,
or 108 English, feet lower than the Black Sea. (For authorities,
see Journ. Roy. Geograph. Soc. vol. viii. p. 135). Sir R.
Murchison, however, concludes, in 1845, from the best Russian
authorities, that the depression of