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is nothing incompatible with what we know as belonging to the northern races 

 above mentioned. 



On the whole, if I am not entirely deceived, this review of the anatomical 

 details authorizes us to regard the Cave-dweller of Prigord as decidedly affiliated 

 to the other Mongoloids of the Age of the Reindeer; and where the repre- 

 sentative of the Lap and the Pin occurs, the Esthonian should rightfully come 

 in. Such, besides, is still at the present day the geographical position of these 

 peoples in the North of Europe. To all we have said on the massiveness of the 

 bony structure, we may append the words of Lmn6 " Eennones corpore toroso." 



Can we, in the last place, draw from other sources any indications of the origin 

 of our Troglodytes ? In other words, will history, archaeology, or philology give 

 us here a ray of light. History cannot be asked for the explanation of prehistoric 

 facts ; but Tacitus, in his inscriptive style, represents the Eins of his epoch as 

 savages, in the hunting stage, and as having only bone points for their arrows, 

 just as our Perigordians had; and thus much only we get from history with 

 archaeology. On the other hand, however, these people of prehistoric times 

 might, on their part, throw an unexpected light on passages in the Scandinavian 

 Sagas, where it is a question of dwarfs versed in sorcery, and giants terrific in 

 their violence. As for the former, they may be readily accounted Laps ; and as 

 for the giants, they might be regarded as mythological beings ; but, if among the 

 primitive Eins there were men of such stature and bearing as our old men of 

 P6rigord, they might well have overawed even the Scandinavians. 



Lastly, as to the data of philology, the skulls are mute enough ; nevertheless 

 the conformation of the bony palate leads us to conclude that, at least pho- 

 netically, the language of our Cave-dwellers was neither Aryan nor Semitic. In 

 fact we find their peculiar palate, low and extending forwards, only in those 

 modern races who have a weak phonology, and sweet at times; and such are 

 the Einnish idioms. 



NOTE. Since this paper was delivered to the printer, other strong proofs have 

 come into my hand with regard of the rachitical character of the malformations 

 observed on the bones belonging to the Troglodyte of Cro-Magnon. Moreover 

 the existence of a cranial type as truly Esthonian as the modern, during the 

 Reindeer Period, is now a well-established fact. We owe these discoveries to 

 MM. de Eerry and Arcelin, two eminent pioneers in the unknown territories of 

 Prehistoric Man. Eor two years they have been hard at work in a burial-ground 



