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THE WONDERS OF GEOLOGY. 



Lect. I. 



distinct tribes. General Ernouf, who carefully investi- 

 gated this interesting deposit, conjectured that the presence 

 of the bones might be explained by the circumstance of a 

 battle, and the massacre of a tribe of Gallibis by the Caribs, 

 which took place near this spot, about 120 years ago ; for 

 as the bodies of the slain were interred on the sea-shore, 

 their skeletons may have subsequently been covered by sand- 



Lign. 11.- Fossil human skeleton, from Guadaloupe. 

 In the British Museum ; size of the original, 4 feet 2 inches by 2 feet. 



drift, which has since consolidated into limestone. Dr. 

 Moultrie, however, from a rigorous examination, and com- 

 parison of the bones of the skull in his possession, is of 

 opinion, that the specimen in the British Museum did not 

 belong to an individual of the Carib, but to one of the 

 Peruvian race, or of a tribe possessing a similar cranio- 

 logical development. 



