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and inhabitants of the same world At night, five or six 



human beings, naked, and scarcely protected from the wind 

 and rain of this tempestuous climate, sleep on the wet ground 

 coiled up like animals. Whenever it is low water, they must 

 rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women, winter 

 and summer, either dive to collect sea eggs, or sit patiently 

 in their canoes, and, with a baited hair line, jerk out small 

 fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcase of a putrid 

 whale discovered, it is a feast ; such miserable food is assisted 

 by a few tasteless berries and fungi. Nor are they exempt 

 from famine, and, as a consequence, cannibalism accompanied 

 by parricide." In this latter respect, however, the advantage 

 appears to be all on the side of the ancients, whom we have 

 no right to accuse of cannibalism. 



If the absence of cereal remains justifies us, as it appears 

 to do, in concluding that they had no knowledge of agricul- 

 ture, they must certainly have sometimes suffered from periods 

 of great scarcity, indications of which may, perhaps, be seen 

 in the bones of the fox, wolf, and other carnivora, which would 

 hardly have been eaten from choice ; on the other hand, they 

 were blessed in the ignorance of spirituous liquors, and saved 

 thereby from what is at present the greatest scourge of 

 Northern Europe. 



Prof. Worsaae has proposed to divide the Stone Age into 

 two divisions, the first of which he again subdivides. His 

 classification stands as follows :- 



The Older Stone Age. 



1. The stone implements found in the drift, and in caves 

 with remains of the mammoth, rhinoceros, hysena, and other 

 extinct animals. 



2. The Rjokkenmb'Jdings and coast-finds. 



The Later Stone Aye. 



Characterized by the beautifully worked stone implements 

 and large tumuli. 



