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FOSSIL HUMAN SKELETONS. 



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In another skeleton from Guadaloupe, now in the museum 

 of the Jar din des Plant 'es, and represented in the last 

 edition of Cuv ier's Theorie de la Terre, the figure is bent, 

 the spine forms an arc, and the thighs are drawn up as if 

 the individual were in a sitting posture ; a portion of the 

 upper jaw, and the left half of the lower with several teeth, 

 nearly the whole of one side of the trunk and pelvis, and a 



Lign. 12. — Human skeleton from Guadaloupe. 

 In the Museum at Paris. 



considerable portion of the upper and lower left extremities, 

 are preserved {Lign. 12). The stone incloses terrestrial 

 and marine shells ; it is evident that the former have been 

 drifted by streams from the interior, and the latter depo- 

 sited by the sea. In the bed from which this block was 

 extracted, were found teeth of the Caiman (a species of 

 crocodile), stone hatchets, and a piece of wood, having 

 rudely sculptured on one side a mask, and on the other the 



