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carried out. This whole section of country is studded with Iudiau remains. Il 

 many places Indian burrows have been discovered, containing the remains of dead 

 bodies, pottery, copper kettle- pipes, and other articles peculiar to the Red man. 

 And a few years ago, a farmer in the town-hip of Ifedonte found the remain - 

 small manufactory of pottery, in which were utensils of all kinds and sizes in 

 various states of preparation, Tbe writer of this has visited the spot. It lay on 

 the side of a rocky eminence, and resembled one of those limekilns so common 

 throughout the Province." As no knowledge of the potter's art seems to have 

 survived among our north-western tribes, an account of the discov* 

 native potter's kiln with a minute notice of its contents, and the condition in 

 which they were found, if still recoverable, would be well worth putting 

 on record. 



SANDWICH ISLANDERS. 



In the Montreal Medical Chronicle of June last, an interesting communication 

 on " Diseases peculiar to the Sandwich Islands," from the pen of Dr. John Rae, 

 a Canadian physician resident there, supplies some curious particulars relative to 

 the physical idiosyncrucies developed among the natives by contact with Euro- 

 peans. Many of these are cutaneous diseases, but accompanied with peculiar 

 symptoms, painfully suggestive of their origin from the vices of Europeans. One 

 of these diseases, termed by the natives the puupuu, manifests its presence by red 

 boils appearing at various parts, sometimes over the whole body. These ultimately 

 form into fleshy prominences, projecting a quarter of an inch from the surface, and 

 frequently an inch in diameter, which break and discharge. But what struck Dr. 

 Rae as peculiar, when treating some of these cases, at Kaoli If ana, Mai i, 

 describee: 



" I was here first led to remark the extraordinary vigor with which the renova- 

 tion of skin and cuticle goes on among this race. Although, in these cases, the 

 original skin had been completely destroyed, yet, in a month or two, the scars 

 were scarcely perceptible, being only noticeable, on a cursory view, by a more 

 polished surface, and requiring a close inspection to trace the line of demarcation 

 between the old and newly organized substance." 



We shall not follow Dr. Rae into the purely professional details of his subject, 

 but some of his observations on the changes produced on the natives by "the 

 breaking up of the old order of things," consequent on European intrusion, are 

 of a wider interest. After referring to the increasing frequency of pre- 

 vailing maladies, and to the effects resulting from a change of diet, consequent 00 

 the partial adoption of European habits ; he adds the following remarks in reference 

 to the influence of dress, which admit of a very extensive application: 



"Again, the general adoption of something like the dress of civilized men, 

 seems to hare produced a change in their habit of body, which, physiologically, 

 and perhnps ethnological!?, .- worthy of notice. Their hue has less of red and 

 more of back in it. It would seem, that, when the surface of the body is exposed 

 to the skyey influences, there is a greater rush of blood to the minute external 

 vessels, reddening the hue. The whole person becomes, in a measure, face. May 

 not this be one cause of the change of complexion which to a great extent has 

 taken place In the Celtic and Germanic races ? We know from Caesar and Taci- 

 tus, th it even in the severe winters of the Germany and France of those days, the 

 hardy natives scorned much encumbrance of clothing as a mark of effeminacy, 



