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the higher ground, near the Old Mole, discovered an appearance of a 

 human body, which — impatient because the officer to whom notice was 

 sent of the object did not come to witness it — they blew up. It was 

 reported to have been eight feet and a half long. Several of the pieces 

 were taken up, and among them part of a thigh bone, " with flesh, and 

 I thought an appearance of veins, all in a state of perfect petrifaction, as 

 hard as marble itself ; and in the solid part of the same stone a sea shell." 

 It is evident, that if this body was fossilized by the infusion of stalactite 

 matter, it must still have been of most remote antiquity. 



Pages 15G — 161. We refer to Mr. Lyell's account of the human remains 

 brought from South America, where, among others, he notices a skull, 

 taken from among a great number of other remains, out of a sandstone 

 rock, now overgrown 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 419. 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 pre- 

 dominance 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. 



