Note 14 — THE EYES BUSY ON THINGS ABOUT US.

“Amˈmon-ites.” A genus of fossil shells, somewhat like the Nautilus. They are found in all fossiliferous rocks from the transition strata to the chalk. They vary in size from those that are exceedingly small to those three and four feet in diameter. Some of them resemble in form the coil of a ram’s horn, and others a snake coiled up. For a long time they were taken by the common people to be petrified snakes. They are so abundant in Burgundy that in some places the roads are paved with them.