116 THEOJtY OF'THK KAHTH. 



in the stone, I obtained complete proof of what I 

 had before announced. Among the bones found 

 at Canstadt, the fragment of a jaw, and some ar- 

 ticles of human manufacture, were found ; but it is 

 known that the ground was dug up without any 

 precaution, and that no notes were taken of the 

 different depths at which each article was disco- 

 vered. Every where else, the fragments of bone 

 alleged to be human, are found, on examination, 

 to belong to some animal, whether these frag- 

 ments have been examined themselves, or merely 

 through the medium of figures. Very recently, 

 some were pretended to have been discovered at 

 Marseilles, in a quarry that had been long ne- 

 glected ; * but they have turned out to be impres- 

 sions of tuyaux marines.^ Such real human 

 bones as have been exhibited as fossil, belonged 

 to bodies that had fallen into fissures, or had been 

 left in the old galleries of mines, or that had been 

 incrusted ; and I extend this assertion even to 

 the human skeletons discovered at Guadaloupe, 

 in a rock formed of fragments of madrepore, 

 thrown up by the sea, and united by water im- 



* See the Journal de Marseille et des Bouches-du- Rhone, 

 of the 27th Sept. 25th Oct. and 1st Nov. 1820. 



t I am confirmed in this opinion by the sketches trans- 

 mitted to me by M. Cottard, one of the Professors of the 

 College of Marseilles. 



