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skin.- Thrust backwards by European invasion, brutalized by the 

 spirituous liquors which the whites bring to him, the Indian will 

 retire further and further north ; he will fly until he finds himself 

 stopped by the everlasting polar ice; there, after having cast his nets 

 in vain and shot his last arrow, having no further hope but in the 

 home promised by the Great Spirit, he will lie down on the snow, 

 that will soon cover him with its winding sheet, and with him a whole 

 race will disappear for ever from the face of the earth." 



Domestic Animal Races and Wild Species. — The subject of ani- 

 mal species and races is more advanced in Switzerland than that of 

 the human races. There have been a large number of bones col- 

 lected, to the study of which the learned Professor Kutemeyer, of 

 Basle, has specially devoted himself. The following is a summary of 

 the results he has obtained up to this time. 1 



The pile-works of the age of stone of Wangen, (W.,) on Lake 

 Constance, of Wanwyl, (W. W.,) in the canton of Lucerne, 2 and of 

 Mosseedorf, (M.,) near Berne, have furnished, among domestic ani- 

 mals : 



The Dog. — A very constant and uniform race in the various locali- 

 ties ; it was rather small, its size being a medium between the hound 

 and the pointer. 



/tt7 a? "" £ Small races. In all three localities. 

 The IS keep. ) 



The Cow. — A small race, with greatly curved horns. Everywhere. 

 The same localities have also furnished the following wild animals: 



The Brown Bear, (Ursus Arctus, L.,) M. 



The Badger, {Meles vulgaris, Desm.,) M. W. W. 



The Martin, {Mustela martes, Briss.,) M. W. W. 



The Polecat, {Mustela putorius , L.,) M. W. W. 



The Ermine, {Mustela hcrminea, L.,) W. W. i 



The Otter, {Lutra vulgaris, Erxl.,) M. 



The Wolf, {Canis lupus, L.,) W. W. W. 



The Fox, {Canis vulpes, L.) Everywhere. 



The Wildcat, {Fells catis, L.,) M. W. W. 



The Hedgehog, {Erinaceus europceus, L.,) M. 



The Beaver, {Castor fiber, L.,) M. W. W. 



The Squirrel, {Scinrus europams, L.,) M. W. W. 



The Wild Boar, {Sus scrofa ferns, L.,) M. W. W. 



The hog of the peat-bogs, {Sus scrofa palustris, Rut.) A wild race 

 very peculiar, established by Mr. Rutimeyer, who, however, does not 

 yet lay it down as a separate race. 3 In all the three localities. 



The Elk, {Cervus alces, L.) Everywhere. 



The Deer, {Cervus elaphas, L.) Everywhere. 



The Roe-buck, {Cervus caprceolus, L.) Everywhere. 



1 Memoirs of the Society of Antiquaries of Zurich, XIII, January, 1860. 



2 Examined with minute care by Colonel Suter at Zofingue. 



3 Mr. Rutimeyer is going to publish it in the Memoirs of the Helvetic Society of Natuns. 

 Sciences. 



