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worked? a remarkable change in the human system; and with respect to the mammoth, the megalonix, & other animals, has either extinguished, or driven them into other and far distant latitudes. Nature, as it grows in age, is less vigorous than at the beginning & in its early age it was; its productions correspond with its debility, and the time must come, when she, like all her productions, will give up the ghost, and work no more. But the principal use we have to make of the skeleton before us, is to discover, first, that he came from a cold or northern climate, and not from the south, as the primitive aborigines did, for men of large stature were never found with the tropics : secondly, that he must have come from the north of Europe, or of Asia, because of the similarity of customs already remarked : and thirdly, that he probably belonged to those northern tribes, which some centuries ago exterminated the nations which had come from the south, and were settled upon the Cumberland lits? waters" x x x x x x x x x "One remark may be of some use in the drawing of inferences from the preceding facts. The skeletons, we find, are entire under conical mounds, or in part consumed by fire, and under such mounds, or entire in shallow graves, with flatworks? placed on the edges, at the sides, and at the head & feet, or are entire, above the common surface, and in the conical mounds enclosed in rock, placed together in the form of a box, or stand erect in such boxes, with the head some depth below the surface. To burn & cover with a mound, is Hindooic, Grecian, & belonging to the ancient countries of Asia.