96 REPORT—1848, 
The author then, in the absence of all further historical or traditional accounts, is 
inclined to refer the interments of the numerous human bones in the fields previously 
described to the period immediately after the great battle which was fought near 
Billingham between king Ardulf and the conspirator Wada. 
The subsoil of the arable field being very dry, and nearly a pure sand, would pre- 
serve those remains for a great many centuries. 
The supra-occipital and parietal bones of the skull did not present any physiological 
peculiarity of structure. 
Amongst the collection were an astragalus of a small ox, and a transverse process 
of a lumbar vertebra, most likely of a horse. 
Measurements of a Skull considered to be Burgundian. 
By Professor Rerztus. 
Diameter. Metres. 
Fronto-occipital .......sscseeereesees Jssceeeeny sevecsssesesee O'188 
Frontal ...... BF BS ear avodscusstsseseheesssaeer 0:098 
Occipito-vertical ..........csssseeeees see eescacecevecnes cacese VOPIAS 
Inter-mastoid ..,......sceeessees Be disctuvadestenstens sue tease 0128 
Inter-zygomatic .....+.... Bed aes oes aattedaseacddves senoas 0125 
Initersocbital es. soutecdashdeeeees che fee envvecbecscccveaseetoves 0:025 
General character Germanic. 
Notes on a Kirgis Skull. By Professor Rerztus. 
Although belonging to the Turkish tribes, the Kirgis skull departs from the type 
of the Turk, Cossack and Mongol skulls in being less round, and short, and more de~ 
veloped in its occipito-frontal diameter. 
Remarks to accompany a Comparative Vocabulary of eighteen Languages 
and Dialects of Indian Tribes inhabiting Guiana. By Sir Rozerr H. 
ScnomeurGck, PA.D. 
These vocabularies were collected by the author during the expeditions which he 
undertook into the interior of Guiana, namely in the years 1835 to 1839, under the 
direction of the Geographical Society of London, and in the years 1840 to 1844 as 
Her Majesty’s Commissioner for surveying the boundaries of British Guiana. The 
territory, which extends from the shores of the Atlantic between the river Corentyn 
(lat. 6° N., long. 57° W.) to the east, and the Orinoco (lat. 8° 40! N., long. 60° 30! W.) 
to the west, as far southward as the Rio Negro (lat. 1° 30'S.), and from the banks of 
the Upper Corentyn (long. 56° 40! W.) westward to the Cassiquiare (long. 67° 40’ W.), 
that remarkable natural canal which connects the Orinoco with the Rio Negro, has 
been more or less explored during the eight years which were dedicated to these 
expeditions. 
The number of vocabularies which he collected during his voyages amounts to 
eighteen, none of which, as he observes, bear a closer affinity to each other than the 
French and Italian. Without binding himself strictly to the following division, which he 
considered merely provisional, he divided these vocabularies into six sections, namely,— 
I. Caribi-Tamanakan.—1., Caribisi. 2. Accawai. § Waika. 3. Macusi. § Zapara. 
4. Arecuna. § Soerikong. 5. Waiyamara. 6. Guinau. 7. Maiongkong. 8. 
Woyawai. 9. Mawakwa, or Maopityan. 10. Pianoghotto. § Zaramata. §§ Drio. 
11. Tiverighotto. 
Il. Wapisian-Parauana.—1. Wapisiana. 2. Atorai. § Taurai, or Dauri. 
§§ Amaripa. 3. Parauana. 
III. Taruman.—Taruma. 
IV. Warauan.—Warau, or Guarauno. 
V. Arawakan.—Arawaak, or Aruaca. 
VI. Lingua Geral (dos Rios Negro e Branco). 
The subsequent remarks described the regions which are inhabited by the tribes 
above enumerated, accompanied by some incidental observations respecting their 
customs and manners, and were followed by a comparative vocabulary of a few words 
from each, which are added herewith, as the greater number are new to our know- 
ledge of philological ethnography. 
