85 EELIQULE AQUITANIOE. 



dorsal, the transverse diameter is to the antero-posterior, in the inside, as 18 to 17 millims., though in the 

 first dorsal belonging to another person these measurements are 17 millims. each. The width from one 

 transverse process to another attains 60 millims. 



Five lumbar vertebra? belonging to the Old Man have been fitted together. The bodies are very much 

 depressed, the edges very prominent and sharp. Altogether they are 140 millims. long. The curvature 

 in a contrary direction to that of the dorsals is also well marked. In the fifth lumbar the fore-and-aft 

 diameter within is 27-15 millims. The transverse processes are lost in these specimens; but in a fifth 

 lumbar belonging to another backbone the distance between the transverse processes is 94 millims. 



Besides these, there are also some separate dorsal and lumbar vertebrae, which enable us to prove the 

 existence here of four persons. 



b. Eibs. [C. PLATE III. figs. 4 and 5.] 



Altogether there are fifteen fragmentary specimens. Eight of them alone permit us to presume that the 

 thorax was rather convex than flat. There are, however, amongst them two ribs, one with a squarish, and 

 the other with a rounded edge, which have a thickness of from 10 to 12 millims. ; and two others, with a 

 sharp edge, have a thickness of from 7 to 11 millims. : and this very probably is an anomaly dependent 

 on rickets. 



After all this description of details, we have to regret that the imperfection of the materials at command 

 does not enable us to determine the stature of the individuals with precision. Everything, however, concurs 

 in leading us to presume that they were tall, attaining a height of six feet if not more. 



CHAPTER III. 



SYNTHETICAL. 



Judging from the zoological and industrial accompaniments of the Human 

 Remains described in the preceding Chapters, this family must have subsisted 

 by hunting and fishing, and by such natural products as Man without agriculture 

 and domestic animals can obtain. As to the products of his industry, this man, 

 living in a state of nature, is comparable with that of Aurignac, d'Arcy, &c.* 

 He does not appear, however, to have attained such a degree of skill as was 

 acquired later in the same neighbourhood and elsewhere, especially in an artistic 

 point of view, by the men of the Reindeer Age properly so called. 



As to his exterior, a heavy frame was managed by a powerful muscular 

 apparatus, which has left its traces in the hollows and ridges of the bones. 

 A robust, but flattish, foot bore the body, and was fitted for running by its 

 elongated heel. Of a sombre aspect, with an imposing stature, and conscious 



* It is very remarkable that the human bones found in these localities present no evidence of tall 

 stature. On the contrary, we have proofs at hand that there were there at least some individuals of a 

 really liliputian dwarfishness ; and yet, judging from paloeontological and archaeological data, the epoch 

 was the same. 



