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are many needles of bone, and a few teeth and bones pierced for suspension as 

 personal ornaments ; among these are some of the small ear-bones of the Horse 

 and Ox and a canine tooth of a Wolf. But the most remarkable objects are 

 engravings on portions of Reindeer-horn, giving what M. Lartet suggests are : 

 representations of the Aurochs and Bos primigenius ; some carvings in relief, on 

 the surface of an harpoon-shaped instrument, of the heads of the Horse and Stag ; 

 and a highly spirited carved figure of a Reindeer most skilfully adapted to form 

 the handle of a sort of poniard made from the horn of that animal. The same 

 fauna prevails here as at Les Eyzies ; but some detached plates of molars and a 

 portion of the pelvis of the Elephant have been found. 



Gorge d'Enfer. On the same side of the river as Laugerie, but a little lower 

 down the valley, and in a ravine opening into it, are the caverns of the Gorge 

 d'Enfer (fig. 62), where also similar deposits have been found, containing the 



Fig. 62. 



Diagram Profile of the Gorge d'Enfer, a lateral Valley on the right Bank of the Vezere. 



Limestone. 



Limestone. 



a, Cave, with Bones ifcc. 



b a 

 b, Recess, with Bones &e. 



usual worked flints and fractured bones among the former some of the more 

 carefully chipped specimens. It appears probable that these caves had been 

 emptied to a great extent at the time of the French Revolution, for the sake of 

 the saltpetre to be obtained from their contents. 



Les Eyzies. I now come to the renowned Cavern of Les Eyzies renowned 

 because, owing to the unprecedented liberality of its explorers (Messrs. Lartet 

 and Christy), almost every museum of note, whether public or private, not only in 

 France and England, but throughout a great part of the civilized world, has had 

 specimens of its breccia, worked flints, and animal- remains presented to it; so 

 that the name of Les Eyzies is everywhere known ; and it is to be hoped that the 



