. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. v\ 612 â tr. which have a gv: i to genuine Carib ones in one of the small Virgin Islands (St. John's); but notwithstanding the wide extent of the invasion of the Caribs, and the ancient power of this fine race, 1 cannot believe that all the rock engravings, which form an immense belt, traversing a great part of South America from west to east, are to be re- garded as th
. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. v\ 612 â tr. which have a gv: i to genuine Carib ones in one of the small Virgin Islands (St. John's); but notwithstanding the wide extent of the invasion of the Caribs, and the ancient power of this fine race, 1 cannot believe that all the rock engravings, which form an immense belt, traversing a great part of South America from west to east, are to be re- garded as their work. Between Encaramada and Caycara, on the banks of the Oronoco, a number of these liieroglyphical figures are sculptured on the face of precipices, at a height which could now be reached only by means of extraordinary high scaf- folding. If one asks the natives how these figures can have been cut, they answer, laughingâas if it were a fact of which a white man alone could be ignorant, * that in the days of the great wafers, their fathers went in canoes at that height.' Although not absolute proof, the height of these sculptures, and the tradition of a large river or lake flowing at the base 6f the lofty rocks, would seem to indicate a great change in this region of ; Of the remains of man himself, we have the fol- lowing instances furnished by Agassiz, Lund, and Mantell. The former writer says, " The fossil re- mains of the human body from Florida, that T pos- sess, were discovered in a hluff upon the shores of lake Monroe. The mass in which they v/ere found is a conglomerate of rotten coral-reef^ limestone, ad shells, mostly ampularia of the same species now found. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bovell, James, 1817-1880. [Toronto? : s. n. ]
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