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RELIQUIAE AQUITANICLE. 



with an impetuous current, is constantly shifting portions of its channel ; and the stupendous effects of water 

 thus temporarily arrested are exemplified in a degree of rare magnificence. 



To my conception these minor effects were typical of the grand cataclysms of which the geological 

 evidences are apparent ; and, from the heterogeneous commingling of the relics of different ages which must 

 obviously hence ensue, the corresponding confusion in remote epochs, over wider areas and on a scale 

 immeasurably more grand, is necessarily to be inferred. 



Fig. 57. 



Portion of an Harpoon-head of Reindeer-horn, 

 from La Madelaine. (Christy Collection.) 



Fig. 57. This butt is convex on one face and 

 nearly flat on the other. The perforation is deeply 

 ut in and grooved on both faces. 



Fig. 58. The loose head is of Walrus ivory, and 

 is 7 inches long. It is attached to a long, cylin- 

 drical, pine-wood shaft (tapering downwards), 7 

 feet long, by a square plaited cord of sipew, 8 feet 

 long, dividing into two branches for rather more 

 than half of its length where attached to the shaft, 

 similarly to the Sea-Otter arrow, fig. 13, p. 5 1 , in 

 Part III. A large air-bladder is attached to the 

 shaft near its lower extremity. 



Fig. 58. 



Harpoon (half nat. size) from the Konjags of 

 Alaska, for comparison with fig. 57. 



