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Some Early Forms of Art. 
By Srr Recinatp Harpy, Barr. 
READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY, Noy. 19rH, 1905. 
N the Maritime Alps, where the road from Nice to Turin passes 
San Dalmazzo, rises Monte Bego, 8,000 feet high. Below the 
summit of the mountain lies a wild desolate region,with huge masses 
of glaciated rock. Their ‘colour is a fine purple, orange, and red. 
The glacier ice has polished the stone and made a smooth and 
inviting surface for primitive artists. As far as I know, there is no 
place in Europe, or the world perhaps, where so large an area is 
covered with so many varied prehistoric engravings. 
In 1650 a.p., Gioffredo, the historian, wrote a history of the 
Maritime Alps, deriving his information from Laurenti, the parish 
priest of a neighbouring village. 
“The Lakes are called the Lakes of Wonders, ‘ MERAVIGLIE, 
because near them, to the wonder and amazement of beholders, are 
to be found various rocks of different colours, smooth and slippery, 
which are engraved with a thousand figures, representing quadrupeds, 
birds, fish, mechanical, rural and military implements. And these 
rocks, notwithstanding the length of time, are not covered with 
