EELIQUIJE AQITITANKLE. 



The accumulation of rubbish detached from the friable strata gives rise, at the 

 foot of these scarped rocks, to the formation of a talus of comminuted debris, 

 lying at the highest " angle of rest " ; and these accumulations sometimes entirely 

 mask the flutings and rock-shelters of lower levels. One of these latter, covered 

 by a talus 4 metres thick, has been found 880 metres N.W. of the village of 



Fig. 37. 



View of the Valley of the Vezere, showing the Chamfering or Fluting of the rocky face of the Right Bank, 

 and the Inclination of these Lines in a direction contrary to that of the Slope of the River. 



a, Les Eyzies. 



b, Caves of Le Cingle. 

 e, Railway-bridge. 



d, Roc de Tayac. 

 , Gorge d'Enfer. 



/, Laugerie Basse. 



rj, Tayac Church. 



h, Les Eyzies Railway-station. 



i, Place of the Rock of Cro-Magnon. 



Fig. 38. 



View of the rocks along the Left Bank of the Valley of the Vezere, from Tayac to Les Eyzies, including 



the Cave of Cro-Magnon. 



be d 



N.W. 

 a 



S.E. 



a, Tayac Church. 



6, Les Eyzies Railway-station. 



e, Cro-Magnon Cave. 



d, Rock of Les Eyzies. 



, Chateau of Les Eyzies. 



/, Railway-bridge across the Vezere. 



Les Eyzies, and 130 metres S.E. of the Les Eyzies Railway-station, at a place 

 called Cro-Magnon*, and at the foot of a rock the upper part of which stands 

 up detached, roughly resembling a great mushroom. See figs. 38, 39, and 40. 

 This newly discovered Shelter would perhaps have remained for ever unknown 



* ' Cramagnon ' on the Survey-Map. 



