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ed or disregarded on account of its Loneliness or want of con- 

 nection with similar facts. 



These specimens were brought bo this country in June 

 last by Captain J. D. Elliott, of the l~. S. navy. That officer, 

 with a liberality which can not be too highly esteemed, both 

 in reference to is intrinsic nuiit and the usefulness of the ex- 

 ample, collected in his bite cruise on the Brazilian station 

 many interesting objects in natural history, arts, agriculture, 

 Sec., with which hehasenriched his own country. 



While riding along the banks of the river Santas, in his 

 way from the port of Santas to tin 1 town of St Paul, he dis- 

 covered a mound or elevation, whose area he thinks must ex- 

 I three acres, and whose height is aboul fourteen lift. 

 The surface is covered with soil in which grow many large 

 trees. 



This mound or hillock is about four miles from Santas, and 

 the little river Santa- rises in the mountain of C'nbiton. whos< 

 summit is elevated aboul 2~> 00 feet, and stands at the distance 

 n miles from the sea. 



These bones were diig from the lace of the hill where it 

 was cut by the wash of the stream, and are parts of one ske- 

 leton out of many hundreds thai are still lying in their lied 

 of tufa. 



Captain E. describes them a- resting in the rock in an ob- 

 lique direction; the heads uppermost, and the lower extremi- 

 ties dipping at an angle of from 20° to 25° below tin horizon 



eastwards. This is a very curious loci, if < Lpared with 



what M. Lavaysse says of the east and wesl direction of 

 the Guadaloupe skeletons — a position which occasioned them 

 to be regarded as the tenants of some ancient cemetery, though 

 Mr Eonig justly remarks thai from the looseness of Lavaysse's 

 account of the accompanying petrifactions, ool much stress is 

 to be laid on his description 'd this point. 



There are in all nine pieces : 



\ i. l is ili<- largi -i. and consists of the |,fi os temporis in 

 i very entire state. To it is attached a portion of the parj 

 tal bone and a fragment of the occipital. 'I'll' specimen is 



