94 NATURAL HISTORY OF 



mammiferas, in several places : they had been detected 

 in England,* in caves and fissures, enumerated by 

 Professor Buckland ; they were found at Meissen in 

 Saxony, and at Durford in France, by M. Firmas. A 

 fossilized skeleton, found in the schist rock, when exca- 

 vating the fortifications of Quebec, in part preserved 

 in the museum, at the seminary, excited no attention ; 

 and the well-known Guadaloupe skeletons, one of which 

 is now in the British Museum, had been pronounced 

 recent upon hypothetical reasoning. Those discovered 

 by M. Schmerling, in the Liege caverns, were similarly 

 disposed of; and the reports of Dr. Lund, residing at 

 Lagoa Santa, in Brazil, respecting partially petrified 

 human bones, found by him in the interior of the 

 country, and represented to have been in the same 

 condition with those of numerous animals now extinct, 

 which accompanied them, attracted no more than incre- 

 dulous attention, although they were represented to 

 have belonged to that singular flat-headed form of man 

 which will be noticed in the sequel, f 



But the fact of juxtaposition of the bones of extinct 

 mammals and of man, recur so often, that some may 

 be mentioned more in detail, thus : In the caverns of 

 B&e (department of the Aude), in France, human 



* At Kirkby, in Yorkshire, in 1786, in the fissures of a 

 limestone quarry. 



f Dr. Lund has since discovered another deposit of fos- 

 silized bones, in the province of Minas Geraes, along with 

 several entire human skeletons. He enumerates, in the 

 same deposit, forty-four species of extinct mammals, among 

 which the horse occurs abundantly. 



