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with very large trees, in the vicinity of Santas, in Brazil. 

 He avows an opinion, that the locality may have been an 

 Indian burying-ground, which subsequently sank beneath 

 the level of the sea, and then was hove up again. Now, if 

 this theory be admitted, and it is coupled with the growth 

 of large trees above the deposit, to what period can it be 

 assigned, when we reflect, that the bones of pachyderms, 

 and of a species of extinct horse, both confessedly found in 

 alluvial, must be of a more recent period. 



Page 450. With regard to the Slavi, which might have 

 been noticed as the last migrating nation that came from 

 the East to Europe, they were omitted, because no detail 

 could be given even of the little that is known of them. 

 In structure and intellectual capacity they are so like their 

 immediate predecessors, the Goths, that no other sensible 

 difference is observable between them, than that they have 

 even a still greater predominance of Sanscrit roots in their 

 language, and that there are other evidences which lead to 

 a presumption of their route westward having been in part 

 to the south of the Caspian. An instance of the highest 

 intellectual development, in the frontal form of the head, 

 is given in the Plates. 



