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The weight seldom exceeds three pounds, and the length eight 
to ten inches. 
One double-bitted ax, an unusual form, is seven inches long 
and one and a quarter inches thick. It is well shaped and ap- 
pears to have been an effective tool. The cutting edges of all 
the axes were formed with great care and are curved as in our 
modern axes. They bear indisputable evidence of careful grind- 
walls of the ruins of Casa Grande.— Wm. P. Blake, Phenix, Ari- 
zona, March, 1886. 
THE so-caLteD DEForMED Cranta2—The discovery in Cuba 
of a series of crania commonly called deformed Carib skulls, is itself 
an argument against this identification, for it is well known that 
there never were either Caribs or practices of deformation in Cuba. 
M. le Docteur Montané read before this society, at a former meet- 
ing, an essay entitled, “ A Cuban Carib,” an epithet as opposed to 
the opinions of the author of the present paper as, for example, a 
Jamaican Aztec, a Venezuelan Quichua, a Portuguese Basque or 
a Magyar Englishman 
Let us establish who are the Caribs and under what circum- 
stances were the crania found ? 
The Caribs, according to P. Casas and other chroniclers of 
America, were the inhabitants of Guadeloupe and Dominica, the 
itself there and the land was occupied by France and other- 
Powers, a 
i Thus the Indians called at the end of the seventeenth century : : 
Caribs by Breton, Du Tertre, Rochefort and Labat, and who, _ 
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