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THE WEST INDIES.
The West Indies present a most attractive field of research for the archeologist -- a field as yet touched upon only superficially save for the recent researches of Doctor Fewkes. The archipelago stretches out over upwards of 1600 miles of open expanse, the Lesser Antilles connecting somewhat closely with South America, and through the Bahamas with Eastern Florida. The greatest expanse of open sea between South America and the Lesser Antilles is that separating the Island Tobago from island, a distance of 80 miles, the distance between the Bahamas and the Florida coast not exceeding 60 miles, and Yucatan is 120 miles from the west extremity of the Island of Cuba and within historic times the peoples have included two great liguistic stocks -- the Arawack and the Carib. Both are believed to have been derived from South America. The former had practical possession of