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of bones were those of people who had been sacrificed at 
him.” 
Much has been written, and many popular superstitions are ex- 
tant, regarding the Stone, or “‘Druidical” Circles, and Cromlechs, 
or “ Druid Altars.” These our author disposes of, at least in part, 
by considering the smaller circles to be simply the outline or 
commencement of the mound raised over the place of burial, and 
the cromlechs as sepulchral chambers, denuded of the earth that 
once formed a mound over them. That such is the case, his own 
and other excavations seem most conclusively to show, bút while 
thus reducing popular superstition to simple facts, the mystery as 
to the means by which the, in many instances, gigantic cromlechs 
were erected, is left, and it is nearly as great a one as the build- 
ing of the pyramids. 
In this notice we have called attention to only a few of the 
points treated of by Mr. Jewitt in the first chapters of his little 
book, relating especially to the Ancient British, or Celtic Period. 
He also gives an equally instructive account of more recent 
mounds and burials under the headings of the Romano-British 
and the Anglo-Saxon Period, thus bringing archeological research 
well into the domain of history, and in many instances getting 
from the graves of the dead facts with which to elucidate the his- 
tory of the living. 
Crustacea DREDGED IN THE GULF STREAM OFF FLORIDA.* — 
The rich materials dredged by M. Pourtales, in the Gulf Stream, 
under the auspices of the United States’ Coast Survey, are gradu- 
ally being published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Compar- 
ative Zoology at Cambridge. The brachyurus Crustacea, of which 
many new forms, both generic and specific, were discovered, are 
now enumerated by Dr. Simpson, with notes on their bathymetrical 
distribution, though most of the species were from shoal water. 
a second part, the general result will be given, to which we 
Shall allude when issued. 
*Preliminary Report on the Crustacea dredged in the Gulf Stream in the Straits n 
Florida; by L. F. de Pourtales. Part1, Brachyura. Prepared by Dr. William Stimp- 
son. 8vo. pp.109-160. Cambridge, 1870. 
