admirable proportion. His aspect was not handsome; yet his countenance was grave, strongly marked with the characteristics of a man of courage.

His bow was not easily bent by a common ma; his arrow was three pronged, pointed with the bones of fishes; all his weapons were large enough for a giant; in a word, he was so nobly proportioned as to be the admiration of even the Spaniards.

Already the murderous Spaniards had been more than conquerors in several battles which drove the poor fugitives to their caves, and the fastnesses of the mountains, whither they had followed their chief. A daily pursuit was continued, but chiefly to capture the as yet invincible Cotubamana.

While searching in the woods and hills of the island, at a certain time, and having got on their trail, they came at length to a place where the path which they had followed suddenly spread, and divided into many, the whole company of the Spaniards, except one man, chose a path, which they pursued.

This one exception, was a man named Juan Lopez, a powerful Spaniard, and skilful in the mode of Indian warfare. He chose to proceed alone, in a blind foot path, leading off to the left of the course the others had taker, winding among little hills, so thickly wooded that it was impossible to see a man at the distance of half a bow shot.

But as he was silently darting along this path, he encountered all at once, in a narrow pass, overhung by rocks and trees, twelve Indian warriors, armed with bows and arrows, following each other in Indian file. The poor natives were confounded at the sight of Lopez, imagining there must be a party of soldiers behind him, or they would doubtless have transfixed him with their arrows. Lopez demanded of them where their chief was; they replied, he is behind us, and opening to let him pass, he beheld the dauntless Cotubamana in the rear. At sight of the Spaniard, the gallant cacique bent his gigantic bow, and was on the point of launching one of his three headed arrows into his heart; but Lopez at the instant, rushed upon him, and wounded him with his sword.

The other Indians, struck with terror, had fled. The Spaniard and Cotubamana now grappled with each other; Lopez had seized the chief by the hair of his head with one hand, and was aiming with the other a thrust with his sword at his naked body, but the

chief struck down the sword with his arm, and closed in with his antagonist, and threw him with his back upon the rough rocks.

As they were both men of great strength, the struggle was long and violent. The sword lay beneath them, but Cotubamana seized with his great hand the Spaniard's throat, and began to strangle him, when the sound of the contest brought the other Spaniards to the spot. They found their companion writhing and gasping in the agonies of death, in the gripe of the Indian. The whole band now fell upon him, and finally succeeded in binding his noble limbs, when they carried him to St. Domingo, where the infernal Spaniards hanged him as if he had been a murderer.-Irving's Life of Columbus, 3d vol. p. 159.

Could this native have been less than 12 feet in height, to be in proportion with the breadth of his back between his shoulders, which was full three feet, as Las Casas relates? In reading the story of the miserable death of this hero of his own native island, Higuey, we are reminded of the no less tragical end of Wallace, the Scottish chief, who was, it is said, a man of great size and strength, and was also executed for defending his country.

Goliath of Gath was six cubits and a span high, which, according to the estimate of Bishop Cumberland, was eleven feet and ten inches; Cotubamana and Goliath of the Philistines, were, it appears, much of the same stature, terrible to look upon, and irresistible in strength.

There are those who imagine, that the first inhabitants of the globe, or the antediluvians, were much larger than our race at the present time; and although it is impossible to prove this opinion, yet the subject is not beyond the reach of argument in its support.

The circumstance of their immense longevity favors strongly this opinion; our speeies, as they are now constituted, could not possibly endure the pressure of so many years; the heart, with all the blood vessels of the body, would fail. All the organs of the human subject, which appertain to the blood, would ossify, and cease their action, long before five, six and nine hundred years should transpire, unless differently or more abundantly sustained with the proper support, than could now be furnished from the little bodies of the present times.

Small streams sooner feel the power of a draught than a river or a lake; great trees are longer sustained beneath the rays of a burn-、

ing sky, without rain, than a mere weed or shrub; and this is by reason of the greater quantum of the juices of the tree, and of the greater quantum of the water of the river or the lake.

Apply this reasoning to the antediluvians, and we arrive at the conclusion, that their bodies must have been larger than ours, or the necessary juices could not have been contained, so as to furnish a heart, and all the blood vessels, with a sufficient ratio of strength and vigor to support life so many ages in successsion.

Their whole conformation must have been of a larger, looser, and more generous texture, as the flesh and skin of the elephant, which is the largest as well as the longest lived animal known to the science of zoology. The mammoth was undoubtedly a long lived animal. The eagle, the largest of the fowl family, lives to a great age.

That the antediluvians were of great stature, is strongly supported by a remark of King Solomon, found in his Book of Wisdom, in the Apocrypha, 14th chapter, at the 6th verse, where he calls all the inhabitants of the earth, who were destroyed by the deluge, "proud giants," whose history, by tradition, handed down from the family of Noah, through the lineage of Shem, was well known to that king, the wisest of men in his day and age.

And even after the flood, the great stature of men is supported in the Scriptures in several places, who were, for some generations, permitted to live several hundred years, and were all accordingly of great stature. Whole tribes or nations of gigantic inhabitants peopled the country of Canaan, before the Jews drove them out..

Their manners and customs were very horrible, whom Solomon, the king, charges with being guilty, among many other enormities, of glutting themselves with the blood and flesh of human beings; from which we learn they were cannibals. See Book of Wisdom, 12th chap. 5th verse-Apocrypha.

The very circumstances of the human race, before the flood, required that they should be of greater strength of body than now, because it is not likely so many useful and labor saving machines were then invented and in use as now. Every thing was to be effected by strength of muscle and bone, which of course would require greater bodies to produce it.

Were we to indulge in fancy on this subject, we should judge them no pigmy race, either in person or in temper, but terrible,

broad, and tall in stature, loose and flabby in their flesh and skin; coarse and hideous in their features, slow and strong in their gestures, irascible and ferocious in their spirits, without pity or refinement; given wholly to war, rapine and plunder; formed into bands; clans and small bodies of marauders, constantly prowling round each other's habitations, outraging all the charities of a more refined state of things, measuring all things by mere bodily strength.

From such a state of things we should naturally look for the consequence mentioned in the Bible; which is, that the whole earth was filled with violence before the flood, and extremely wicked every way, so as to justify the Divine procedure in their extermination.

Indications now and then appear, in several parts of the earth, as mentioned by the traveller, of the existence of fowls, of a size compared with the mammoth itself, considering the difference in the elements each inhabit, and approach each other in size as nearly as the largest fowl now known, does the largest animal.

Henderson, in his travels in New Siberia, met with the claws of a bird, measuring three feet in length; the same was the length of the toes of a mammoth, as measured by Adam Clarke.

The Yakuts, inhabitants of the Siberian country, assured Mr. Henderson, that they had frequently, in their hunting excursions, found the skeleton, and even the feathers of this fowl, the quills of which were large enough to admit a man's arm into the calibre, which would not be out of proportion with the size of the claws mentioned above.

Captain Cook mentions having seen, during his voyages, a monstrous bird's nest in New Holland, on a low sandy island, in Endeavor River, with trees upon it, where were an incredible number of sea fowls. This monstrous nest was built on the ground, with large sticks, and was no less than twenty-six feet in circumference, more than eight feet across, and two feet eight inches high. Geographys speak of a species of eagle, sometimes shot in South America, measuring from tip to tip of the wings, forty feet. This, indeed, must have been of the species celebrated in the tradition of the ancients, called the Phoenix.

In various parts of Ireland, are frequently dug up enormous horns, supposed to have belonged to a species of deer, now extinct. Some of these horns have been found, of the extent of fourteen

feet from tip to tip, furnished with brow antlers, and weighing three hundred pounds. The whole skeleton is frequently found with them. It is supposed the animal must have been about twelve feet high.-Morse's Universal Geog.

A FURTHER ACCOUNT OF DISCOVERIES IN THE WEST, AS GIVEN BY THE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY AT CINCINNATI.

NEAR Newark, in the county of Licking, Ohio, is situated one of those immense works or fortifications. Its builders chose, with good taste and judgment, this site for their town, being exactly on the point of land at the junction of Racoon Creek and South Fork, where Licking River commences. It is in form resembling somewhat a horse shce, accommodated, however, to the sweep of those two streams; emoracing in the whole, a circumference of about six hundred rods, or nearly two miles.

A wall of earth, of about four hundred rods, is raised on the sides of this fort next to the small creek, which comes down along its sides from the west and east. The situation is beautiful, as these works stand on a large plain, which is elevated forty or fifty feet above the stream just noticed, and is almost perfectly flat, and as rich a soil as can be found in that country. It would seem the people who made this settlement, undertook to encompass with a wall, as much land as would support its inhabitants, and also sufficient to build their dwellings on, with several fortifications, arranged in a proper manner for its defence.

There are, within its ranges four of those forts, of different dimensions; one contains forty acres, with a wall of about ten feet high; another, containing twent-two acres, also walled; but in this fort is an elevated observatory, of sufficient height to overlook the whole country. From this, there is the appearance of a secret or subterranean passage to the water, as one of the creeks runs near this fort.

A third fort, containing about twenty-six acres, having a wall