364 ETHNOLOGY. 



the intrinsic value of the material. If it were decided to print this 

 work, I would suggest a re-arrangement, bringing under the same head- 

 ings those articles that naturally belong together, but are scattered here 

 through the whole work, and leaving out those numerous grammatical 

 forms, which unnecessarily swell the dictionary, as they result from the 

 rules and examples given in the grammar. I have made such new 

 arrangement for my own use, and shall prepare a copy for the Institu- 

 tion, if such be desired. 



With regard to the preface, (pp. 339 and 340 of the eighth volume,) 

 I may be permitted to say that the author's conjecture concerning a 

 Maya-origin of the Carib-tribe is not borne out, either by history or 

 by philological comparison. It is this, a pet-theory of later date, which 

 has even induced the author to confound the Maya-population north of 

 Belize with the Caribs living southward of the same place. He writes 

 to me himself that those Karifs, seventy-five miles north of Belize, 

 " speak the Maya-language," and that they discard the name •• Oaribs," 

 while his dictionary, which was certainly made among the Oaribs south- 

 ward of Belize, has the words Karifune for Carib, and Kariniazu for 

 Bed Oaribs. 



THE IWUra-BUIIilEKS AND PLATYCNEMISM IN MICHWM. 

 By Henry Gillman. ' 



Throughout the region of the Great Lakes occur many of the most 

 interesting relics of the race known as the "Mouud-builders." Even 

 as far north as the State of Michigan, so large a portion of the bound- 

 aries along the shore-line of the lakes and rivers of the region abounds 

 in the i)resence of those remains as to be a subject of wonder to 

 all who have investigated the subject. From the west end of Lake 

 Erie, along the banks of the Detroit River, the shores of Lake Saint 

 Olair, and the coasts of Lakes Huron and Michigan, through the passage 

 of the Saint Mary's River, to Lake Superior, including isolated Isle 

 Royal, near its northern limits, the remains of the mysterious people, 

 who resided here hundreds of years ago, may be traced. 



Some of those relics may, indeed, be said %o be unique — unlike any- 

 thing of the kind in any other part of this country or even in the Old 

 World. I reffer, for instance, to those which exhibit the flattening of 

 the tibia^ known as platycnemism. 



That these people are identical with the race whose monuments of 

 various descriptions are found occurring in such remarkable abundance 

 to the westward and to the southward, through Ohio, Kentucky, and 

 Tennessee, even to the Gulf of Mexico, admits now of no question ; a 

 race whose craniological development and evidently advanced civiliza- 

 tion apparently separate it from the ISTorth American Indian and ally it 

 to the ancient Brazilian type. 



