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 remains, but of which he affirms there is not one that ever formed a part of the human skeleton; the same tact, if we may so express this peculiar merit of Cuvier, enabled him to decypher the "Homo Diluvii Testis" of Scheutzer, and to restore it to its true genus, the Proteus.

We shall close our remarks upon the fallacies by which the bones of quadrupeds have been mistaken for those of man, by the interesting account of the remains which were found by Belzoni in a sarcophagus in the second pyramid of Egypt, and for a detailed relation of which we are indebted to Captain Fitzclarence, in his overland route from India. These bones were believed to be no other than the remains of King Cephrenes, who, according to Herodotus, is supposed to have built the pyramid, and to have been buried in its cavern; unfortunately, however, for the antiquarian's conjecture, Mr. Clift, of the College of Surgeons, has satisfactorily proved that the bones in question are not human, but belong to an animal of the genus Bos.