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Fig. 99. Skeleton of Extinct Giant Elk (Megaceros hibernicus) of Ireland, compared 

 with Man. (Reduced from an Irish lithograph.) 



That these animals lived as contemporaries of man is 

 proven by two classes of evidence. In the first place, the 

 bones of man and the relics of his industry are found pre 

 served in the same situations as the bones of these extinct 

 quadrupeds. In 1828, Tournol and Christol disclosed the 

 coexistence of such remains in the caves of the south of 

 France ; and, somewhat later, Schmerling described from 

 caves in the environs of Liege, bones and even crania of 

 men, together with arrow-heads and other articles envel 

 oped in the same stalagmites with the remains of the 

 mammoth, rhinoceros, cave-bear, cave-hyena, and other an 

 imals. A similar association of remains has been observed 

 by Austen in the celebrated cave of Kent s Hole, near 

 Torquay, in England. More recently still, more import 

 ant discoveries have been developed by M. Lartet from the 



