Signor Marghieri, the arohroologist, has made an interesting discovery m a cavern on the eastern Blope of the Sierra Madre range in Mexico, about 200 miles south of Deming, between Ooralitoa and Casa Grande The San Francisoo Examiner reports that this cavern might be regarded as hitherto almost hermetically sealed, i'.s existence being unsuspected. The floor was almost smooth, the sides rough and rocky, etalac liteß hung iv profusion from the roof. At the farthest end there were four human bodies in a sitting posture, the heads in dined forward, the knees drawn up, and tha china resting on them. The heads were wrapped in burial clothes made of a mixture of cotton wool, hair, grass, and bark. The bodies were turned towards the east. They seemed to be a father, mothor and two children. The elder of these, a boy, was at the father's right hand; the other, a young girl, was at the mother 'a left. The girl's body was wrapped in the "skin of an animal, acoording to the v age of the island of Puerte Ventura, evidently the better to preserve the more delicate body. A fine dust lay on the ground all round the bodibß, but there were no footmarks whatever of either man or beast. There had been no embalming process ; the bodies had been simply dried in the air. Tbey belonged to a race quite different from the present Indians ; their fingers, hands, and feet were smaller ; the woman's hair was brown, soffc as silk, and resembling that of the Caucasian races. The body of the man weighed pro* bably in life 1801 bto 2001 b ; the present weight is 141 b. The body of the woman weighs 121 b ; small hollow pieces of bamboo were in the ears, probably for ornament ; she hud a broad well developed, forehead! The boy weighed only 31b, and. the girl 4*lb.
