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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 Bra- 

 zil, 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 cred- 

 ulous attention, although they were represented to have belonged 

 to that singular flat-headed form of man which will be noticed 

 in tin- sequel.^ 



But the fact of juxtaposition of the bones of extinct mam- 

 mals and of man recurs so often that some may be mentioned 

 more in detail, thus : — In the caverns of Bize (department of 

 the Aude), in France, human bones and shreds of pottery were 

 found in red clay, mixed with the debris of extinct mammalia, 

 among which were recognized those of TJrsus arctoideus, Cervus 

 auoglochis, a species equal in size to the common Stag; Cervus 

 Reboulii, Capreolus TournaVri, and Lefroii, 8fC. 



Soon after, the celebrated Marcel de Serres examined the 

 caverns of Pondres and Souvignargues, and detected the remains 

 of human skeletons and pottery in the same deposits with bones 

 of a lost species of Rhinoceros (R. tkhorinus), a small kind 

 of Equus, and a Stag {Cervus cataglochis). 



On the Rhine, skulls of gigantic Bisontes andUri occurred, 

 and Dr. Boue found human bones mixed with others of extinct 

 species at Lahr. In the vicinity of Xanthen, beneath an altar- 

 stone, the head of a Cervus giganteus (Irish Elk), and a quan- 

 tity of ashes, were discovered. 



*Dr. Lund has since discovered another deposit of fossilized bones, in 

 the province of Minas Geraes, along with several entire human skeletons. 

 He enumerates, in the same deposit, forty-four species of extinct mam- 

 mals, among which the horse occurs abundantly. 



