SOME CUBAN FOSSILS 



A HOT SPRING YIELDS UP THE BONES OF ANIMALS THAT LIVED 

 BEFORE THE ADVENT OF MAN 



By Barnum Brown 



With photographs by the Author 



THE former connection of Cuba with the mainland of North, Central 

 or South America has long been a subject of speculation, a one-time 

 connection of the whole chain of West Indian islands with the con- 

 tinent being at once suggested by their position. But deep-sea soundings 

 show that water ranging from one hundred to five hundred fathoms in depth 

 separates Cuba from Florida while depths of more than one thousand 

 fathoms separate it from Yucatan. 



Cuba is at present rich in some phases of small life such as land shells, of 

 which more than six hundred species have been described while less than half 

 that number is known from the entire United States and comparatively few 

 are common to the two countries. Of mammals however only three kinds 



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