Deposit of Bones of the Rattle Suake. - 8% 
genous to its own climate, an admission, contrary to fact, 
and unsupported by the shadow of authority, we should of 
course attribute its appearance there to emigration from the 
contiguous and well supplied regions of the south, rather 
than to transportation by human aceney eye we ‘far- Tess 
extensive swarms of another continen: 
On the whole, Sir, from these ROE it spbeatn to eemend 
f trust will also appear to your better judgment, that the pre- 
sumptuous hy pothesis of Raynal and his successors, is to” 
considered merely as the genuine offspring of the spirit 
once so fashionable among a certain class of: Furopean wri- 
ters, and even now not extinguished, of soneireck and dispar- 
aging all ae aly of the Westen i and , moral-and 
Weste herbac 2 a 
canet prosperity er yout Inston a, ate 
Your very respectful, ee sai Suis 
and obedient humble: servant, 
J. A. VANDEN HEUVEL, 
hess XI. — Som curious facts: respestng ake uses f ie 
Rattle : reated sAtaghens byt es- 
‘Snake ; co 
ani Jaco son ine a p Ttler 
Shion the year 1748, some eubadere sorworking < fe uar- 
ry in this neighbou urhood for ‘the stone with which our Col- 
lege is built, discovered’ a small cavern, which contained 
the entire skeletons of an immense number ‘of the 7 rattle 
wumeaeuaed 8.) Reh a aa th in ‘stich quantities as to 
= an occurrence som Or newhi 
artz, th “ of | Fra eA hs and t 
beautifnl grotto of Tresheinionshiz, ‘in. the Carpa 
