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remains were extracted beneath the thick covering of sta- 

 lagmite. 



At Brixham Cave many flint knives were found in the 

 lower part of the ochreous cave-earth indiscriminately 

 mixed with the bones of the mammoth and other extinct 

 quadrupeds. 



V. INTER-GLACIAL EPOCH. 



The mammoth did not survive this period in Europe, 

 save a few stragglers which continued for a short time 

 in the Reindeer Epoch. It is probable that at a time 

 corresponding to this epoch the M. gigmiteus flourished in 

 America. 



The remarkable discovery made by M. Lartet, in 1860, 

 of human bones found in conjunction with those of certain 

 extinct mammalia, including the mammoth, in the cave 

 of Aurignac, situated in the arondissement of Saint- 

 Oaudens, department of the Haute Garonne, France, has 

 been fully described in the " Manual of the Antiquity 

 of Man." It will be dismissed here with the statement 

 that besides the human bones M. Lartet discovered flint 

 instruments, and the relics there found represented difi'er- 

 ent epochs ; some of the implements and human bones 

 dating back to the very beginning of the Mammoth Period 

 in Europe. 



TI. REINDEER EPOCH. 



In May, 1864, M. Lartet, in exploring the cave of La 

 Madeleine (France), discovered an outline sketch of the 

 mammoth drawn on a slab of ivory. When found it was 

 broken into five pieces, but afterwards was very accurately 

 put together. A glance at Figure 8 will show that the 

 artist has well depicted the small eye and the eccentric 

 curvature of the tusks, as well as its huge trunk and 

 abundant mane, the latter proving that it is really the 

 mammoth. The erect tail, ending in a bunch of hair, also 



