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by the hands of man (cerro hecho a memo), half a league itl 

 circumference, situated in the middle of the town, and serv- 

 ing for the base of the palace of the Chan. This artificial hill, 

 called Jerk, rises in the middle of a plain, and strikes the eye 

 of the traveller from afar $ it is decorated with bricks and 

 clay. I have often in my works dwelt on the analogy be- 

 tween the Mexican teocallis, and the pyramid of Belus, and 

 other edifices with stories or steps, of western Asia. We find 

 in the Aerk of the Chan of Bokhara, the same mixture of 

 bricks and clay spread in layers, that characterizes the con- 

 struction of the pyramid of Cholula. 



It is probable enough that the invasion of the Lenni- 

 Lenapes, and the destruction of the power of the Allighewis, 

 were connected with the migration of the Caribs. Without 

 warranting their northern origin, and their passage from 

 Florida to the Lucayan islands, I shall collect at the end of 

 this note, the result of my researches on that important asso- 

 ciation of nations, so long calumniated by travellers. The 

 Caribs of the continent, whose country still extends from 

 the coast of the province of Nueva-Barcelona (Missiones de 

 Piritu), along the banks of the Carony, the Essequibo, the 

 Cuyuni, and the Rio Branco, as far as the equator, call 

 themselves Carina. The Ottomaques call them Caripina; 

 the Maypures, Caripuna. This is nearly the word Callipinam 

 (in confounding the I and r,) of the language of the women 

 in the Carib Islands. (See above, Vol. iii, p. 284. Gili, 

 Vol. i, p. xxxv 5 Vol. iii, p. 107.) The Caribs of the West 

 Indies divide their nation into inhabitants of the isles, or 

 Cubao-bonon, and inhabitants of the continent, or Baloue- 

 bonon. (He. oubao ; habitation, icabanum, or icabatobon ; 

 continent, baloue.) Rochefort, Hist, des Antilles, p. 325, 658. 

 Breton, Diet. Caribe, p. 32. The following are the names 

 of the islands in the Carib tongue : Antigua, Ouala ; Saint 

 Bartholomew, Ouaralao ; Saint-Martin, Oualachi ; Saint- 

 Croix, Amonhana, Ay ay, or Hay -hay ; (Petr. Mart. Ocean, 



