No. VI. 



J» Account of some Human Bones found on tin ('oust <>j 

 Brazil, near Santa*. Latitude 24° 30 S. Longitude 

 46° W. By C. D. Meigs, MB.— Bead ill, December 



1827. 



r |MIOSE members of the Philosophical Society who hav< 

 -■- read Mr Konig's account of the skeleton carried by Ad- 

 miral Cochrane from Guadaloupe to England, and preserved 

 in the British Museum, will find considerable interest in tin 

 specimens now on the table. 



M. Cuvier has decided that not a single example of human 

 bone has been found among Hie extraneous fossils of animals 

 thai are so profusely scattered over the face of the earth ; and 

 remarks that "human bones preserve equally will with thos< 

 of animals when placed in the same circumstances" — whence 

 arises the Datura] inference "thai the human race didnol ex> 

 U\ in the countries in which the fossil bones of animals hav< 

 been discovered, at the epoch when these bones were covered 

 up: as there can not be a singli reason assigned why men 

 should have entirely escaped from such general catastrophi 

 or, if thej also had hem destroyed and covered over al tin 

 same time, why their remains should doI now be found along 

 with those of the other animals." This learned aaturalisl 

 does not asseii thai man did Dot exist al those periods, bul 

 says he might have inhabited some narrow regions or conn 



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